Projects
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MAD Poetry
We are full of worlds that can't be contained by a pill. MAD Poetry creates a safe writing space for emerging voices with a lived/living experience of mental health issues to express how they see the world.
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Admissions Anthology
We've partnered with our MAD Poetry Coordinator, David Stavanger and Upswell Publishing to support the release of the forthcoming lived-experience mental health poetry anthology Admissions: Voices Within Mental Health.
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Emerging Poets Residency
With support from the Adès Foundation, the Emerging Poets Residency encourages the creative trajectory of emerging Australian poets.
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Poetry Month
Poetry Month aims to increase the profile of Australian poetry and poets. Our goal is to increase access, awareness, value and visibility of poetry in all its forms and for all audiences.
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Red Room Fellowship
The Fellowship is an annual residency program recognising the achievements and artistic goals of contemporary Australian poets.
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Fair Trade
Fair Trade invites some of the world’s leading First Nations poets to weave words across lands and seas, gathering collaborative threads from Australia and across the globe.
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POEM FOREST
POEM FOREST is a free nature writing prize that breathes life back into the natural world that sustains us. Entries are now open, closing Friday 23 September.
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Voices in the Cage
Voices in the Cage shares the pain, hopes and sorrow of women in Afghanistan through poetry, published for International Women's Day (8 March 2022).
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Writing in Resistance
Writing from a new generation of women with experiences of detention in Australia. Created, curated, edited and translated by human rights journalist and writer, Saba Vasefi.
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New Shoots: Wollongong Botanic Garden
Five local poets have been commissioned to create new poems for Wollongong Botanic Garden's 50th anniversary.
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Power through Poetry
Children are invited to go deeper into the themes of Unsettled by reflecting on the poetry of First Nations artists and responding in their own words with the Australian Museum.
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Guwayu – For All Times
Guwayu – For All Times is a fiercely uncensored collection featuring 63 poems from First Nations poets in 12 First Nations languages commissioned by Red Room Poetry.
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In Your Hands
Free e-anthology featuring 80 poems by poets whose recent, current or forthcoming release has been directly affected by the current closure of live events due to COVID19.
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A Sweatshop in a Red Room
A Sweatshop in a Red Room is an ongoing collaboration with Sweatshop: Literacy Movement showcasing poetic voices beyond the margins of race and class.
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Writing Water: Rain, River, Reef
Writing Water: Rain, River, Reef project joins celebrated poets and public submissions to look below the surface and reimagine our essential relationships with water.
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Past/Present Pets
Past/Present Pets honours the life force of animals through a body of poetic and visual work that captures the spirit of companionship.
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Poetry in First Languages
Poetry in First Languages (PIFL) celebrates, shares and preserves knowledge of First Nations languages and culture through poetry, music and art.
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Shadow catchers
Adopting the mirror as a metaphoric device and the echo as a visual conceit, Shadow catchers offers a playful portrait of photographic doubling.
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Panacea: Collaborative Chain Poem
Creating seven-word poems, Panacea branches out into the possibility of connectivity in a world increasingly at odds with itself.
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Requiem
Requiem is an artistic imagining by Janet Lawrence that aims to explore the potential of art forms to retrieve, reveal and hold memories; to inspire wonder, questioning and opportunities for reflection.
