


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...
Nam Le at Sydney Writers’ Festival
Fifteen years after his award-winning collection of stories, The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a breakthrough book of poetry. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Nam, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is “the...
Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 11 2024 Open for Submissions
Submissions to the Anthology open on Sunday 17 March, and close 11.59 pm, Monday 8 April 2024. We invite all Australian Poetry subscribers to submit to the Australian Poetry Anthology, Volume 11 2024. The Anthology will be published in May/June, with ACCEPTANCES only...
AP ANNUAL SUBSCRIBER DRIVE 2023. TWO FOR ONE OFFER
For the second year in a row, in our current annual AP SubscriberDrive 2023, each and every new or renewing Subscription, received up to and including 8th of January, will receive a SECOND free one-year AP Digital Subscription for you to give to another nominated...
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
AP @ Toolkits 2023. Call-out open
What is poetry? What makes it different from other forms of art and writing? How do I write and publish my own poems? Express Media, in partnership with Australian Poetry, is pleased to announce Toolkits: Poetry – an online course in the forms, functions, histories...
Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2023
In 2021 Australian Poetry (AP) began a new annual series surveying and showcasing the flourishing literature of Australian poetry. Our 2023 volume follows the first two prestigious volumes of Best of Australian Poems (BoAP) with guest editors for 2023 being highly...
Announcing the Winner of the 2022 Anne Elder Award
The co-winners of the 2022 Anne Elder Award are Harry Reid with Leave Me Alone (Cordite Books, 2022) and Theodore Ell with Beginning In Sight (RWP, 2022). Thank you also to our judges this year – Gig Ryan, Ella Jeffery and Marjan...
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...