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OUR AP 2024 SUBSCRIBERDRIVE IS HERE (Closed)
Our 2024 SubscriberDrive is Here! Australian Poetry (AP) is the peak national body for poetry in Australia. AP exists to support the full breadth of poetry produced in this country. Our role is to represent Australian poetry and its poets, nationally and...
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR APJ 14.1 ‘walking’ – GUEST EDITED BY JAKE GOETZ (Closed)
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR Australian Poetry Journal Vol. 14.1 ‘walking’ – GUEST EDITED BY JAKE GOETZ APJ 14.1 takes inspiration around 'walking', and the 50 poems published to this theme are intended to be a reframing of what poetry about 'walking' might be....
AP Publications 2024 Update
In an exciting phase AP is releasing a range of stunning publications at this time. For Subscribers and Contributors to Australian Poetry Journal 13.1—‘place, nonplace’ (guest editors Sara M Saleh, Autumn Royal) and Australian Poetry Anthology 7 2024 (guest editors...
Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2024 Call-out (Closed)
Best of Australian Poems 2024 Publisher: Australian Poetry / Imprint, Puncher & Wattmann Call-out: opens 3 July 2024. Closes 1 August 2024, 11:59PM. **Please be advised that if you encounter the message "Sorry, but Best of Australian Poetry 2023 is no longer...
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
Announcing the Winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023
The winner of the Anne Elder Award 2023 is Sara M Saleh with The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP, 2023) General comments from the judging panel Jeanine Leane, Panda Wong and Harry Reid: As judges, we were struck by the breadth of style, form, and subject...
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR APJ 13.2 ‘desire’ – GUEST EDITED BY ELLEN VAN NEERVEN
APJ 13.2 seeks work that engages with different types of desire, including but not limited to: the desire to connect, to look after Country, the desire for a future and for justice, freedom and health. Through this gathering of poems let’s fiercely examine ideas of...
Announcing the 2023 Anne Elder Award Judging Panel
Australian Poetry is delighted to announce the three judges for the 2023 Anne Elder Award panel are Jeanine Leane, Harry Reid, and Panda Wong. Harry Reid was the 2022 Anne Elder Award co-winner, with the other co-winner, Theodore Ell, invited to be a future judge....
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...