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Best of Australian Poems 2026 Submissions Now Open
Best of Australian Poems 2026 Publisher: Australian Poetry / Imprint, Puncher & Wattmann Call-out: opens 23 June 2026. Closes: 14 July 2026, 11:59PM (AEST). Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to...
Donations Drive 2026
Poetry on your mind? Please support Australian Poetry to create meaningful impacts through our publications, festival event calendars and more... Donations small ($2 up) or larger are all loved at AP. All tax-deductible. Our 2026 Donations Drive will run until 30...
2025 Anne Elder Award (Winner, Highly Commended & Commended)
General comments Theodore Ell, Manisha Anjali and Tim Loveday (2025 Anne Elder Judging Panel). We’d like to thank all those poets who put their work on the line. It has been a pleasure getting to read, engage with and discuss such a breadth and depth of new works....
Australian Poetry Journal Vol. 15.1 ‘visual poem’ Open for Submissions
The guest editor for this volume is Ella Skilbeck-Porter Visual poetry merges and blurs the processes of reading and viewing, existing and playing in the in-between spaces of image and word, reminding us that language itself is a material and the written word...
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 Announces the Anne Elder Award 2025 Call-Out (Closed)
Australian Poetry Announces the Anne Elder Award 2025 Call-Out KEY DATES FOR THE 2025 AWARD, for first books published during 2025 and with judging occurring in 2026 are: Open call for entries – Tuesday, 27 January 2026. Close of entries – Monday, 23 March...
The Inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award Winner Announcement
The Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 is a new award for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via Social Media. The Award, with a prize of $1,000 for the successful poet, has been established to honour the memory of Theresa Matheson...
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...
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...