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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...
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/ Imprint, Puncher & Wattmann Best of Australian Poems is an annual anthology collecting previously published and unpublished poems to create a poetic snapshot and barometer of the year that was....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...
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 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...
Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 10 Open for Submissions
Submissions to the Anthology opened on Wednesday, 22 March, and close 11.59 pm, 17 April 2023 There will be a focus on QLD poets, as there was on WA poets in 2021-2022, and ACT poets in 2020, but the Anthology is national. The Anthology is scheduled for publication in...
Announcing the 2022 Anne Elder Award Judging Panel
It is with great pleasure Australian Poetry announces the three judges for the 2022 Anne Elder Award panel are Gig Ryan, Marjon Mossammaparast, and Ella Jeffery. Ella Jeffery and Gig Ryan are previous winners of the prestigious Anne Elder Award and Marjon...
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,...