.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.
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...
AP ANNUAL SUBSCRIBER DRIVE 2023. TWO FOR ONE OFFER
For the second year in a row, in our current annual AP SubscriberDrive 2023, each and every new or renewing Subscription, received up to and including 8th of January, will receive a SECOND free one-year AP Digital Subscription for you to give to another nominated...
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...
Northern Italian Eco-Residency 2023
Each June, during the European Summer, the Nature, Art & Habitat Residency, An ECO-Laboratory of Multidisciplinary Practice, located in Taleggio Valley, Bergamo, Italy, creates the opportunity for a cross-disciplinary cohort to spent a month of creative community...
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
2022 Ann Morgan Prize
To honour Dr Ann Morgan’s contribution to infant mental health, AAIMH Victoria is again offering a Creative Writing Prize of AU$1,500 for a work that explores or imagines the infant’s subjective, emotional world. What is it like to be a baby? Click here for...
Naomi Williams Wiradjuri Poetry Prize, 2022
The Naomi Williams Poetry Prize is named in honour of Nay who was a strong, proud Wiradjuri woman from the Brungle/Tumut area of NSW. Nay loved to write poetry about the river, her family and all the elements of love that she treasured. This poetry prize aims to...
The Novel Prize is Now Open – Giramondo
Submissions to The Novel Prize are now open. The biennial award, now in its second iteration, is for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world. Entries close 1 June 2022. The winner will receive...
Statement and Congratulations on the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017 Poetry Shortlist
21 November 2017 Yesterday, the AP logo was used without the organisation's knowledge to forward social media messages critical of the Prime Minister’s fiction and poetry awards panel process. AP strongly rejects those comments. AP warmly congratulates...