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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...
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 2024
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...
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award, now in its second iteration, is for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world.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...