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 

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Information and enquiries

Jennifer Nguyen
Editorial Associate
Email: associate@australianpoetry.org

 

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR BEST OF AUSTRALIAN POEMS 2025 – GUEST EDITED BY NAM LE AND JILL JONES

 

 

 

Formal Guidelines

  • Australian poets, whether based in Australia or overseas, are invited to submit up to three poems.
  • Poems will be submitted via an online Wufoo form found here. Please contact Editorial Associate Jennifer (associate@australianpoetry.org) if you are having trouble with this form.
  • Poems can be both previously published or unpublished, but need to have been written and/or first published or performed between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025. If a work has been previously published or performed, the poet must include the publication details in their submission.
  • Poems should be uploaded in both Word and PDF format.
  • AP requires that submissions clearly acknowledge and cite the use/quotation of any work by another author.
  • Poets must also include a bio (third person, 50–100 words) and previously published publication details (month, year, link (if applicable) and contact details (email, phone, mailing address) in their submission.
  • Poets are able to simultaneously submit to BoAP and other publications.
  • Submissions sent outside the set reading date will not be read or considered.
  • Each poem selected for publication will be paid $80.
  • Successful submissions will be notified in September 2025.
  • Guest Editors will also independently read as widely as possible work published in this time period by Australia’s incredible poetry sector, including journals, magazines, individual collections and anthologies. They may also independently solicit work for consideration at their discretion.
  • Subscribers do not receive a copy of BoAP as part of their subscription (as it is a new additional publication) but will be offered substantial discount rates at the time of publication.
  • Best of Australian Poems 2025 will be published on 1 November 2025.

 

Wufoo form, submission file naming convention: 

  • In a word document, submit up to three poems, titled ‘firstname_lastname_BOAP25′
  • In a PDF document, submit up to three poems, titled ‘firstname_lastname_BOAP25’

 

 

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Nam Le is the author of The Boat, On David Malouf, and 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, which was published last year in Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. Poems from it appeared in Heat, Overland, Paris Review, Poetry, Granta, APR, and elsewhere.

 

 

Jill Jones’ latest book is Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems (2023), short-listed for the 2024 John Bray Poetry Prize, long-listed for the 2024 ALS Gold Medal and commended in the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. In 2021 her book, Wild Curious Air, won the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and in 2015 she won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry for The Beautiful Anxiety. Her work is widely published in Australia and internationally. From 2008-2022, she was Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, and is currently a titleholder at the University. She has also previously worked as an arts administrator, film reviewer, journalist and book editor.