.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.
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...
BOAP25 Cover Reveal
Best of Australian Poems 2025 Cover. Designed by Sophie Gaur.
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 Note: Some users may encounter an error message during submission. If this happens, try refreshing the page or switching browsers....
Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2025
Best of Australian Poems 2025 Publisher: Australian Poetry / Imprint, Puncher & Wattmann Call-out: opens 6 June 2025. Closes: 30 June 2025, 11:59PM (AEST). Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished...
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
Australian Poetry Announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 (Closed)
Australian Poetry Announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025. This new award is for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via their Social Media. There is no entry fee but entrants do need to be current Australian Poetry...
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...
Australian Poetry Announces the 2024 Anne Elder Award Call-Out (Closed)
Australian Poetry Announces the 2024 Anne Elder Award Call-Out KEY DATES FOR THE 2024 AWARD, for first books published during 2024. Open call for entries – Monday, 27 January 2025. Close of entries – Monday, 17 March 2025, 5pm (AEST) (EXTENDED UNTIL: Monday, 24 March...
Announcing the Australian Poetry & NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship 2023 Jury Panel
NAHR and Australian Poetry are pleased to present the jurors for the 2023 NAHR / Australian Poetry Northern Italy eco-residency. They are former NAHR/AP Fellowship alumni Simon Eales and Rachael Mead, and Australian Poetry’s Jennifer Nguyen. AP extends...