Opportunities for Poets

Opportunities for Poets

• The Red Room Poetry Fellowship is currently open for applications from poets previously commissioned by Red Room Poetry, and emerging poets — Closing 5pm Tuesday, 4 February 2025 (AEDT)
• The Emerging Writers' Festival 2025 Artist Call-out is now open - Closing 5pm, Monday 10 February
• Regional Arts Australia is accepting expressions of Interest to the 2025 National Regional Arts Fellowship Program — Closing Sunday, 23 February 2025
• Want to play a key role in supporting regional arts? Regional Arts Australia is on the lookout for artists, arts workers, and industry experts to join their National Assessor Pool — Closing Friday, 28 February 2025
• Bega Valley Shire Council invites people to submit their original poems to the Tideland: Art + Word Ekphrasis Challenge — Closing Friday, 31 January 2025
• Creative Australia invites you to enter the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2025, accepting submissions from six categories, including poetry — Closing Tuesday, 4 February 2025
• The State Library of Western Australia invites you to enter the WA Premier's Book Awards — Closing Thursday, 20 February 2025
• The South Coast Writers Centre invites you to submit to their 2025 Poetry Award — Closing Sunday, 2 March 2025
• The Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize is open to Victorian poets aged 18 and over — Closing Friday, 7 March 2025
• Uplift is inviting poets, poetry groups, organisations, festival, publishers, journals or websites to join their community. They also keep a log of poetic events across the country — Subscribe

Journal and Anthology Submissions

• Splinter Journal — Submit
• Island Magazine — Submit
• The Suburban Review — Submit
• Creatrix Poetry —Submit
• UNSW Press — Submit
• Portside Review — Submit
• Overland — Submit
• Westerly — Submit
• The Marrow — Submit

Residencies and Fellowships

• black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships — Closing Friday, 31 January
• The Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowships are back for 2025 — Closing Monday, 24 February 2025
• Varuna has a range of Residential Fellowship opportunities — Apply
• The Kat Muscat Fellowship for a young writer or editor of an underrepresented gender — Closing Sunday, 2 February

Workshops and Writing Courses

• Writing NSW invites you to Poetics of Place: Writing New Poetry Wherever You Are with Jazz Money — Saturday, 22 February
• Rabbit invites you A Nonfiction Poetry Workshop no. 1: History/Biography — Submit EOI by Monday, 17 March 2025
• Writing NSW invites you to Online Feedback: Poetry with award-winning author Ivy Ireland — Monday, 3 February - Friday, 20 June
• Structuring Poetry with Andy Jackson is a new poetry writing course from Kill Your Darlings. Cost: $169 (10% discount for KYD members) —Open now
• Museum of Brisbane invites you to their Ekphrastic Writing Club — First Saturday of every month
• Cath Drake invites you to a range of courses and workshops — Year round
  

Online Open Mic Events

• Plume Winnipeg & Winnipeg Public Library invites you to their open mic monthly online event 'Speaking Crow' — First Tuesday of every month

Other Opportunities

• The Office for the Arts maintains a register for those interested in being considered for appointment to statutory and non-statutory boards, councils and committees within the portfolio of the Minister for the Arts — Submit your EOI

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