.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 @ Toolkits Connect: Poetry
Australian Poetry, in partnership with Express Media, is pleased to announce Toolkits Connect: Poetry – an online course in the forms, functions, histories and uses of poetry, combining theoretical approaches, practical exercises and group workshops to guide young...
AP @ MWF 2022
Prize-winning authors Ali Cobby Eckermann and Evelyn Araluen are among a wave of First Nations writers deftly using poetry to confront the complexities of colonial and personal history. A Yankunytjatjara poet, author and memoirist, Eckermann is renowned for her...
APJ 12.1 Now Open for Submissions [Closed]
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR APJ 12.1 – ‘divergence, relevance’. POETRY GUEST EDITED BY SCOTT-PATRICK MITCHELL AND ESTHER OTTAWAY. Submissions: open 12 July 2022. They close at 11:59pm 12 August 2022.Australian Poetry Journal 11.2 'ambition, disobedience' is now...
Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2022
In 2021 Australian Poetry (AP) began a new annual series surveying and showcasing the flourishing literature of Australian poetry. Our 2022 volume follows the prestigious debut of Best of Australian Poems 2021 with guest editors for Best of Australian Poems 2022 being...
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award, now in its second iteration, is for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world.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...
NAHR Australian Poetry Fellowship 2020 – Judges’ comments
Mindy Gill is the winner of the 2020 AP / NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship.We are thrilled to announce that Mindy Gill is the winner of the 2020 AP / NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship. Mindy will take up residency in the village of Sottochiesa, Taleggio Valley, northern Italy,...