Opportunities for Poets

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Opportunities for Poets

  • Uplift keeps a log of poetic events across the country — Subscribe
  • Liquid Amber Press 2025 Poetry Prize 'Flight' is now open. First prize: $1,250, second prize: $650 — Closing Sunday, 27 April 2025
  • Poetry Maps is seeking poets from island nations to partake in a project that will showcase several map outlines of island countries, created from poems printed in black ink on white sheets — Closing Wednesday, 7 May 2025
  • The Bundyi Writing Prize is on the lookout for an outstanding unpublished manuscript by an emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writer — Closing Monday, 30 June 2025

Journal and Anthology Submissions

Residencies and Fellowships

  • The International Lamplight Online Fellowship (Ireland) connects Australian and Irish writers in a two-week online fellowship — Closing Monday, 17 March 2025
  • Varuna has a range of Residential Fellowship opportunities — Apply
    • Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowships invites First Nations writers to apply for one of twelve week-long residencies at Varuna — Closing Monday, 7 April 2025

Workshops and Writing Courses

  • Structuring Poetry with Andy Jackson is a new poetry writing course from Kill Your Darlings. Cost: $169 (10% discount for KYD members) —Open now
  • Kill Your Darlings is offering a comprehensive and structured editorial mentorship through their KYD Mentors Program — Applications close Sunday, 6 April 2025
  • Writing NSW invites you to Online Feedback: Poetry with Fiona Wright. Cost: $475 — Monday, 14 July to Friday, 21 November 2025
  • Writing NSW invites you to Poetry in Flux: Playing with Genre and Form with Hasib Hourani. Cost: $225 — Saturday, 16 August 2025, 10am-4pm
  • 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
  • The National Theatre of Parramatta invites you to STAGING THE WORLD, an intensive skills development program for artists of colour, to work with and receive mentorship from established international creatives — Closing Saturday, 5 July 2025

Poetry Events

  • Celebrate the launch of Kirli Saunders' latest illustrated poetry collection Eclipse, at Collins Booksellers, Thirroul — Tuesday, 19 March 2025. RSVP
  • Poets at Petersham Bowlo is hosting an autumn solstice soiree with the theme, Ides of March — Thursday, 20 March 2025
  • Bread & Butter Poetry Slam, the Inner West's most oven-fresh poetry night, will feature poems, feelings and laughs in a safe and inclusive space — Thursday, 27 March 2025
  • Join Red Room's Artistic Director David Stavanger in the launch of his new collection The Drop Off. David will be joined by Omar Sakr, Toby Fitch and Jennifer Wong. — Thursday, 3 April 2025
  • 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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