.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.
AP @ Best of Australian Poems 2021 in Gadigal/Sydney
AP is enormously pleased to be partnering with Gleebooks for a Gadigal-based reading of poets from ‘Best of Australian Poems 2021’. Join co guest editor Toby Fitch and many more poets from the publication for a night of readings! Book here:...
Announcing the 2021 Anne Elder Award Judging Panel
The three judges for the 2021 Anne Elder Award panel are Marcella Polain, Marjon Mossammaparast, and Ella Jeffery.Marcella Polain was born in Singapore, and migrated to Australia with her Armenian mother and Irish father. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing...
AP @ APJ 11.2 & APA Vol. 9 2021-2022 Updates
Dear Subscribers, Contributors and AP Supporters, As always, thank-you for being part of the Australian Poetry community. Regarding APJ 11.2, now in production, the difficult decision has been made for financial reasons to only publish poems that were directly...
Australian Poetry Announces the 2021 Anne Elder Award Call-Out
Key dates for the 2021 Award Open call for entries – Monday, 17 January 2022Close of entries – Saturday, 12 March 2022, 5pm (AEST) (Books must be postmarked no later than 12 March 2022)Winner announcement – Monday, 25 April 2022 ••• Information and enquiries Emma...
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
Naomi Williams Wiradjuri Poetry Prize, 2022
The Naomi Williams Poetry Prize is named in honour of Nay who was a strong, proud Wiradjuri woman from the Brungle/Tumut area of NSW. Nay loved to write poetry about the river, her family and all the elements of love that she treasured. This poetry prize aims to...
The Novel Prize is Now Open – Giramondo
Submissions to The Novel Prize are now open. The biennial award, now in its second iteration, is for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world. Entries close 1 June 2022. The winner will receive...
Announcing the 2021 Anne Elder Award Judging Panel
The three judges for the 2021 Anne Elder Award panel are Marcella Polain, Marjon Mossammaparast, and Ella Jeffery.Marcella Polain was born in Singapore, and migrated to Australia with her Armenian mother and Irish father. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing...
Tartu City of Literature International Residency Program
Tartu City of Literature Office announces the second 2018 call for applications of Tartu City of Literature International Residency Program for writers and translators.