


Best of Australian Poems 2024 Open for Submissions (Guidelines and Wufoo Submission Form)
Submissions Open: Wednesday 3 July – Thursday 1 August 2024, 11:59 PM (AEST). Submission Form: Submissions via online Wufoo form **Please be advised that if you encounter the message "Sorry, but Best of Australian Poetry 2023 is no longer accepting submissions" when...
Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2024 Editors and Cover
Best of Australian Poems 2024 Publisher: Australian Poetry / Imprint, Puncher & Wattmann Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was....
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...
Donations Drive 2024
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 2024 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
Australian Poetry Announces the 2023 Anne Elder Award Call-Out
KEY DATES FOR THE 2023 AWARD, for first books published during 2023. Open call for entries – Monday, 15 January 2024 Close of entries – Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 5pm (AEST) (EXTENDED UNTIL: Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 5pm (AEST). Books must be postmarked no later than...
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...
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...