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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...
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...
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
APJ 12.1 Now Open for Submissions [Closed]
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR APJ 12.1 – ‘divergence, relevance’. POETRY GUEST EDITED BY SCOTT-PATRICK MITCHELL AND ESTHER OTTAWAY. Submissions: open 12 July 2022. They close at 11:59pm 12 August 2022.Australian Poetry Journal 11.2 'ambition, disobedience' is now...
Announcing Best of Australian Poems 2022
In 2021 Australian Poetry (AP) began a new annual series surveying and showcasing the flourishing literature of Australian poetry. Our 2022 volume follows the prestigious debut of Best of Australian Poems 2021 with guest editors for Best of Australian Poems 2022 being...
Callout – Best of Australian Poems 2022
Submissions: open 7 July 2022. They close at 11:59pm 7 August 2022.Information and enquiries Jacinta Le PlastrierPublisherEmail: ceo@australianpoetry.orgSUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR BEST OF AUSTRALIAN POEMS 2022 -- POETRY GUEST EDITED BY JEANINE LEANE AND JUDITH...
Tartu City of Literature International Residency Program
Tartu City of Literature Office announces the second 2018 call for applications of Tartu City of Literature International Residency Program for writers and translators.