.Australian Poetry, based at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, acknowledges the custodians and owners of the land, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and future and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
AP @ Hobart Writers Festival
We are very excited to be partnering with Hobart Writers Festival for two events this year! Check them out below - Writers give to and feed on the moments in which they create. Our moment is on edge, with multiple pressures impacting globally not just on ourselves but...
AP @ Borderless: a transnational anthology of feminist poetry
Wendy Sharpe, detail from “The woman that she was”, oil on linen, 90x76cm, 2020Friday, August 20th, 8pm AEST Come celebrate with us! 'Borderless: A transnational anthology of feminist poetry' is being launched. This collection of specially commissioned feminist...
AP @ APJ 11.1 and MWF 2021
APJ 11.1 is now available for purchase by clicking the image above. Please note that the font on the front cover will be printed in silver foil ink, not white. Designed by Stuart Geddes. Cover punctuation taken from 'Scheme of Things' by Ashley Haywood, p. 47....
AP @ NTWF 2021
Where: Open Air, Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Tuncks Rd, Alice Springs, NT 0870, Australia When: Saturday 28 August 2021 at 5:30pm - 7:00pm We are proud to be partnering with the Northern Territory Writers' Festival to present 'Sundown Poetry'. You can read more...
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
Blake Poetry Prize
Entries are now open for the Blake Poetry Prize, and all Australian poets are invited to explore the spiritual and religious in a new work of 100 lines or less. The Blake Prize is an open poetry prize that challenges poets, both national and international, in...
Haiku Competition
This year The Central Coast Independent Writers Group, in collaboration with Artspace Popup Gallery, have been granted $500 in prize money to hold a second writing competition. The winner of the competition will receive $300, while two runners up will receive $100...
Woorilla Poetry Prize Now Open
Open Section First Prize - $1,500, Runner Up - $250 Youth Section First Prize - $200, Runner Up - $50 CALD Youth sub-category First Prize - $200, Runner Up - $50 Key Dates Opens on the 3rd July 2021 Closes on the 5th September 2021 Awards Ceremony - 28th...
NAHR Australian Poetry Fellowship 2020 – Judges’ comments
Mindy Gill is the winner of the 2020 AP / NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship.We are thrilled to announce that Mindy Gill is the winner of the 2020 AP / NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship. Mindy will take up residency in the village of Sottochiesa, Taleggio Valley, northern Italy,...