Calls for submission, competitions, and opportunities in Australia

 

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...

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...

Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2024 Call-out (Closed)

Best of Australian Poems 2024 Publisher: Australian Poetry / Imprint, Puncher & Wattmann Call-out: opens 3 July 2024. Closes 1 August 2024, 11:59PM. **Please be advised that if you encounter the message "Sorry, but Best of Australian Poetry 2023 is no longer...

Announcing the Winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023

The winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 is Sara M Saleh with The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP, 2023) General comments from the judging panel Jeanine Leane, Panda Wong and Harry Reid: As judges, we were struck by the breadth of style, form, and subject...

Announcing the 2023 Anne Elder Award Judging Panel

Australian Poetry is delighted to announce the three judges for the 2023 Anne Elder Award panel are Jeanine Leane, Harry Reid, and Panda Wong. Harry Reid was the 2022 Anne Elder Award co-winner, with the other co-winner, Theodore Ell, invited to be a future judge....

Australian Poetry Announces the 2023 Anne Elder Award Call-Out 

KEY DATES FOR THE 2023 AWARD, for first books published during 2023. Open call for entries – Monday, 15 January 2024 Close of entries – Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 5pm (AEST) (EXTENDED UNTIL: Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 5pm (AEST). Books must be postmarked no later than...

AP @ Toolkits 2023. Call-out open

What is poetry? What makes it different from other forms of art and writing? How do I write and publish my own poems? Express Media, in partnership with Australian Poetry, is pleased to announce Toolkits: Poetry – an online course in the forms, functions, histories...

Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2023

In 2021 Australian Poetry (AP) began a new annual series surveying and showcasing the flourishing literature of Australian poetry. Our 2023 volume follows the first two prestigious volumes of Best of Australian Poems (BoAP) with guest editors for 2023 being highly...

Announcing the Winner of the 2022 Anne Elder Award

  The co-winners of the 2022 Anne Elder Award are Harry Reid with Leave Me Alone (Cordite Books, 2022) and Theodore Ell with Beginning In Sight (RWP, 2022).       Thank you also to our judges this year – Gig Ryan, Ella Jeffery and Marjan...

Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 10 Open for Submissions

Submissions to the Anthology opened on Wednesday, 22 March, and close 11.59 pm, 17 April 2023 There will be a focus on QLD poets, as there was on WA poets in 2021-2022, and ACT poets in 2020, but the Anthology is national. The Anthology is scheduled for publication in...

Announcing the 2022 Anne Elder Award Judging Panel

It is with great pleasure Australian Poetry announces the three judges for the 2022 Anne Elder Award panel are Gig Ryan, Marjon Mossammaparast, and Ella Jeffery. Ella Jeffery and Gig Ryan are previous winners of the prestigious Anne Elder Award and Marjon...

APJ 12.1 Now Open for Submissions [Closed]

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR APJ 12.1 – ‘divergence, relevance’. POETRY GUEST EDITED BY SCOTT-PATRICK MITCHELL AND ESTHER OTTAWAY. Submissions: open 12 July 2022. They close at 11:59pm 12 August 2022.Australian Poetry Journal 11.2 'ambition, disobedience' is now...

Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2022

In 2021 Australian Poetry (AP) began a new annual series surveying and showcasing the flourishing literature of Australian poetry. Our 2022 volume follows the prestigious debut of Best of Australian Poems 2021 with guest editors for Best of Australian Poems 2022 being...

Callout – Best of Australian Poems 2022

Submissions: open 7 July 2022. They close at 11:59pm 7 August 2022.Information and enquiries Jacinta Le PlastrierPublisherEmail: ceo@australianpoetry.orgSUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR BEST OF AUSTRALIAN POEMS 2022 -- POETRY GUEST EDITED BY JEANINE LEANE AND JUDITH...

Liquid Amber 2022 Poetry Prize

First prize - $A500, Second prize - $A150 Best Poem by an Emerging Poet - Editing Service Pack with Rose Lucas But best of all - poems on the longlist will be published in the Anthology. Join in for a chance to be an author in a high quality Liquid Amber Press...

2022 Poets Meets Politics International Open Competition

Hungry Hill Writing is pleased to announce our 2022 Poets Meet Politics International Open Poetry Competition We are especially delighted that PHILIP GROSS has agreed to judge for us this year. We will be awarding: a first prize of €500 / $550 See our website...