.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.
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...
AP @ MWF 2023
Event: Art and Stories Time: Sat 6 May, 10.30-11.30am Venue: Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library Victoria Price: $25 full / $20 concession Indigenous artists and storytellers have inspired each other for millennia in a rich cultural exchange that continues to...
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...
APJ 12.2 Now Open for Submissions
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR APJ 12.2 – ‘suite, sequence’. POETRY GUEST-EDITED BY EMILY STEWART. APJ 12.2 ‘suite, sequence’ is a query into form rather than theme. It presents an uncommon chance to showcase a greater body of work than journals tend to allow for....
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...
The Moth Poetry Prize 2017
Closing date for receipt of entries is 31 December 2017. The name of the author must not appear on the same page as the poem. It’s not a requirement, but we strongly advise you to purchase a copy of The Moth. You can write on any subject and there is no...