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BOAP25 Cover Reveal
Best of Australian Poems 2025 Cover. Designed by Sophie Gaur.
Best of Australian Poems 2025 Open for Submissions (Guidelines and Wufoo Submission Form)
Submissions Open: Friday 6 June 2025 - Monday 30 June 2025, 11:59PM (AEST). Submission Form: Submissions via online Wufoo form here Note: Some users may encounter an error message during submission. If this happens, try refreshing the page or switching browsers....
Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2025
Best of Australian Poems 2025 Publisher: Australian Poetry / Imprint, Puncher & Wattmann Call-out: opens 6 June 2025. Closes: 30 June 2025, 11:59PM (AEST). Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished...
2024 Anne Elder Award (Winner, Highly Commended & Commended)
General comments Jeanine Leane, Theodore Ell, and Ella Skilbeck-Porter (2024 Anne Elder Judging Panel). The thirty-seven debut poetry collections entered into the 2024 Anne Elder Award offered windows into a range of poetic styles and modes. This year the range...
the tears the pelicans are leaving us like a line of words quicker than
the tongue drift glide sail waft fly fly away something happened here.
— ‘Flight Feathers’, Ellen Van Neerven
Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 12 2025 Open for Submissions
The guest editors for APA Vol.12 are Lachlan Brown and Keri Glastonbury. Submissions to the Anthology open on Friday, 23 May, and close Monday 23 June 2025, 11.59 pm (AEST). We invite all Australian Poetry subscribers to submit. The Anthology publication date is 30...
Australian Poetry Announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 (Closed)
Australian Poetry Announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025. This new award is for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via their Social Media. There is no entry fee but entrants do need to be current Australian Poetry...
Announcing the 2024 Anne Elder Award Judging Panel
Australian Poetry is delighted to announce the three judges for the Anne Elder Award 2024 panel are Jeanine Leane, Theodore Ell, and Ella Skilbeck-Porter. Theodore was the 2022 Anne Elder Award co-winner with Harry Reid (a judge last year) and Ella was Highly...
Northern Italian Eco-Residency 2023
Each June, during the European Summer, the Nature, Art & Habitat Residency, An ECO-Laboratory of Multidisciplinary Practice, located in Taleggio Valley, Bergamo, Italy, creates the opportunity for a cross-disciplinary cohort to spent a month of creative community...