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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 Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished...
2024 Anne Elder Award (Winner, Highly Commended & Commended)
General comments Jeanine Leane, Theodore Ell, and Ella Skilbeck-Porter (2024 Anne Elder Judging Panel). The thirty-seven debut poetry collections entered into the 2024 Anne Elder Award offered windows into a range of poetic styles and modes. This year the range...
Donations Drive 2025
Poetry is a language for life. At this time please help Australian Poetry make meaningful impacts as we run our extensive publications and festival events calendars. Donations small ($2 up) or larger are all loved at AP. All tax-deductible. Our 2025 Donations Drive...
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 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...
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...
NAHR / AP Northern Italian eco-residency for 2023
Announcing the Australian Poetry & NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship 2023, Four weeks, June 2023 The theme is AIR In partnership with the Nature, Art & Habitat Residency (NAHR), Australian Poetry is once again pleased...