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BRILLIANT PRIZES @ AP SUBSCRIBERDRIVE 2025
AP’s annual 2025 SubscriberDrive has arrived. As poetry is bringing its vital spark to these times, with often booked-out events and strong sales, think about buying or renewing a subscription to AP, for yourself or for a pal. From 8th December for a month,...
Rabbit Annual 2025: Launch Event, Melbourne
Wed, 10 Dec, 6pm - 8pm AEDT The Wheeler Centre Melbourne VIC, Australia You are warmly invited to the launch of the first Rabbit Annual, from the team at Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry. (Free, though please register through the Humanitix link). ...
Inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award Poem
The winner of the inaugural Theresa Matheson Bequest Award was Martha Kamara. You can read more about the winner announcement here. In the words of 2025 judge Claire Gaskin: 'I finally picked as the winner the poem I felt was most resolved, which for me means the poem...
Australian Poetry Digital 2025 Volume
Welcome to AP’s inaugural AUSTRALIAN POETRY DIGITAL 1 2025 volume. Conceived as an adjunct to our annual AUSTRALIAN POETRY ANTHOLOGY, as with APA, the APD features poets who are also Subscribers. You must be a Subscriber to submit poems to either publication. ...
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...