.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.
BOAP25 Cover Reveal
Best of Australian Poems 2025 Cover. Designed by Sophie Gaur.
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 Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished...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...
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 the 2023 Anne Elder Award Judging Panel
Australian Poetry is delighted to announce the three judges for the 2023 Anne Elder Award panel are Jeanine Leane, Harry Reid, and Panda Wong. Harry Reid was the 2022 Anne Elder Award co-winner, with the other co-winner, Theodore Ell, invited to be a future judge....
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...
AP @ National Poetry Competition by The Poetry Society
The National Poetry Competition, run by The Poetry Society since 1978, is one of the most prestigious competitions worldwide for a single unpublished poem. This year's competition is now open for entries until 31 October 2022. The judging panel includes Jason...