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AP @ NTWF 2020
Nature of Change Poetry Walk On a short, guided morning walk through the glorious tropical and monsoon flora at the George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens, poets share poems about the cycles of change, transformation and regeneration that shape our lives and our...
AP @ OutLoud Digital Slam! 2020 Final
After much thought and process Australian Poetry have again decided to come together with Emilie Zoey Baker to present our youth poetry slam competition, OutLoud. For the first time, we are also partnering with the amazing Wheeler Centre, to livestream a Slam Final in...
OutLoud Slam Final @ TWC
Australian Poetry is pleased to be partnering with The Wheeler Centre to present the 2020 OutLoud Slam Final. From their website: "Are you ready to rhyme? Or is free verse your jam? Whatever your style, it's time to slam. See what we did there? Yeah. We're presenting...
AP @ MWF Digital 2020
Just Announced: AP @ MWF Digital 2020 Australian Poetry are thrilled to partner with Melbourne Writers Festival for their 2020 Digital program to present 'Meditations in an Emergency', a morning of poetic performance. Sat Aug 8 11:00 AM Online; 60 Mins Tickets...
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
The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry
Submission GuidelinesPublishers are invited to enter books published between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2019.Submissions must be received by February 15, 2020.There is a $20 submission fee. Unlimited submissions are allowed, but each book requires...
Entries Open – NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2020
Entries close at 5pm Monday 14 October 2019 so be sure to get your entry in soon. The NSW Premier's Literary Awards are the richest state-based literary awards in the country with up to $305,000 in prize money to be awarded in 2020. The categories offered...
The Annual W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia
'We who care deeply about the arts find ourselves the priesthood of an almost forgotten faith, and we must, I think, if we would win the people again, take upon ourselves the method and fervour of a priesthood. We must be humble and half-proud. . . . We...
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