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Chief Executive Officer & Publisher Opportunity (Open)
Chief Executive and Publisher, Australian Poetry An opportunity to lead Australian Poetry’s strategy, operations, and finances while championing poetry and supporting Australia’s poetry community. Australian Poetry’s Board of Directors is seeking a Chief...
Best of Australian Poems 2024 Showcase (Event Concluded)
Be inspired by a collection of our finest poets who have distilled the indelible events, challenges and triumphs of the past year into thought-provoking works for Best of Australian Poems 2024. Edited by Shastra Deo and Kate Lilley, Best of Australian Poems is...
OUR AP 2024 SUBSCRIBERDRIVE IS HERE (Closed)
Our 2024 SubscriberDrive is Here! Australian Poetry (AP) is the peak national body for poetry in Australia. AP exists to support the full breadth of poetry produced in this country. Our role is to represent Australian poetry and its poets, nationally and...
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR APJ 14.1 ‘walking’ – GUEST EDITED BY JAKE GOETZ (Closed)
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR Australian Poetry Journal Vol. 14.1 ‘walking’ – GUEST EDITED BY JAKE GOETZ APJ 14.1 takes inspiration around 'walking', and the 50 poems published to this theme are intended to be a reframing of what poetry about 'walking' might be....
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 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...
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...
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,...