Calls for submission, competitions, and opportunities in Australia

Entries are now open for one of Australia’s richest poetry prizes, the 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry, with poets from all over the country competing for the coveted $10,000 first prize. The 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry will be awarded for outstanding poetry with...

GOLFO is a trans-continental poetry zine with a strong appetite for art and photography pairings with poetry. Poems are seen as much as they are read and GOLFO likes to heighten this sense in our publications. GOLFO responds to work that plumbs the depths...

OUT OF LIMBO Are you LGBTQIA? Do you have a coming-out story? Verity La wants your story! Or are you LGBTQIA and not out? Verity La wants your story too! Verity La's Out of Limbo publishes the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,...

Competition entries accepted until 5pm on 20 March 2019 Gladstone residents are encouraged to pen an entry in Gladstone Regional Council’s Micro Poetry competition and share their poetry proficiencies to celebrate Harmony Day and World Poetry Day. Both...

Submissions are now open for Plumwood Mountain vol 6 no 2 (August 2019) 'Intersecting Energies: Location, Gender and Climate'.Is climate change the overarching challenge of our time?How do location and gender intersect in climate change poetics?In this...

Entries for the 2019 Wesley Michel Wright Prize are now open.The prestigious Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry, worth approximately $3500, is open for award to an author or composer of original verse or poetry in the English language and who is an...

Poetry on Planes is the first in a series of anthologies that will feature the work of 99 poets -- both established and emerging -- from around the world.The editors are soliciting original works that were, ideally, written while the author was travelling...

1st Prize - £500, 2nd Prize - £250, 3rd Prize - £100, plus 17 runners up published on the Welsh Poetry Competition website and in a future anthology.Judge - Mike JenkinsClosing date - 26th May 2019Poems in English, 50 lines maximumEntry fee - £5 (£6...

The Dorothea MacKellar Poetry Awards are open to primary school students until 30 June 2019.

All categories Open Theme, Short Story, Poetry, Memoir, Pauline Walsh Award for Short Short Story. $7 per entry or $25 for 4 entries. Entries close 15th May 2019.

The closing date for entries is April 22nd 2019. Hungry Hill Writing are delighted to announce their new Poets Meet Politics International Open Poetry Competition 2019 and that Christy Ducker has agreed to judge.They will be awarding a first prize of €500,...

Submissions close 31 August The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is currently open for submissions. Hosted by the international art and culture publication Aesthetica Magazine, the Award celebrates excellence in Poetry and Short Fiction, supporting new...

In 2013, the director of Hunter Writers Centre and a palliative care nurse specialist, who also loved to write, dreamed up the idea of calling for stories and poems to publish for Grief Awareness Month (August). Six years later the project is still going...

Applications for 2019 Hot Desk Fellowships are closing at 5.00 pm on Monday 4 March 2019.

Island magazine invites Tasmanian writers to ‘write the future’ by creatively exploring climate change, adaptation and resilience.

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE MIDNIGHT FRIDAY, 12th APRIL 2019 RABBIT is currently accepting submissions of nonfiction poetry for Issue 28: The POLITICS Issue, to be guest co-edited by Alan Wearne and Ella O'Keefe.Send up to 3 poems (short or long) in one document...

For more details on the prizes, our judge, entry requirements and other competition details, please click the buttonThe closing date for entries is April 22nd 2019. Hungry Hill Writing are delighted to announce our new Poets Meet Politics International...

Call for Submissions: VISUAL/POETRY: Chapbooks, Zines, Visual Work at Abbotsford Convent - An invitation to contribute to Print Space Market by Leah Muddle - CLOSING NOVEMBER 15 VISUAL/POETRY ~ an invitation to contribute to Print Space MarketSubmissions...

The 2019 Emerging Writers' Festival will take place from 19–29 June in Melbourne.Hashtag: #EWF19Twitter: @EmergingWritersFacebook: @EmergingWritersFestival  Diversity, inclusivity and accessibility are the core values that underpin EWF’s artistic program,...