📣 Celebrate World Poetry Day with us!
Dear poets and poetry lovers,
We’re excited to announce our World Poetry Day celebrations on March 21 co-presented with Singapore Writers Festival. Singapore Emerging will premiere on Facebook Live at 7pm AEST.
These celebrations will kick off our amazing online Queensland Poetry Festival Program, leading up to our live festival ‘Emerge’ from 3-5 June at the Judith Wright Centre in Meanjin (Brisbane).
We can't wait for you to join us at our upcoming events, either online or in-person.
Yours in poetry,
— The QP Team
📣 QPF x SWF this World Poetry Day
Join us for World Poetry Day on March 21 at 7pm AEST as we feature readings from two exciting new poets from Singapore, Lune Loh and Ally Chua. We’ll also be launching the program for the Queensland Poetry Festival 2022!
Premiering on Facebook Live and co-presented with Singapore Writers Festival.
📣 Queensland Poetry Festival program launching soon
Our 2022 Queensland Poetry Festival Program launches on World Poetry Day, 21 March! We look forward to seeing you in Meanjin/Brisbane from 3-5 June, or at our Emerge Online program beginning on 21 March.
📣 Volta poetry is back!
âš¡VOLTA is co-presented monthly by Queensland Poetry and Brisbane Square Library, bringing you electric poetry, spoken word, and the unexpected. Free, but BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL.
VOLTA APRIL 2022 features Jarrah L. Barton, Claire Alcock and Damen O’Brien, and will be held in-person at the Brisbane Square Library on Friday 1 April at 6pm AEST. BOOK NOW.
📣 Rewatch our Poet in Residence readings
Watch a captivating poetry reading by the exceptional Eileen Myles (they/them) who came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Their books include For Now (an essay/talk about writing), I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX. Watch the video on our YouTube.
Listen to four stunning poems read by LANIYUK, a Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji, and French writer and performer of poetry and short memoir. Laniyuk received Canberra’s Noted Writers Festival’s 2017 Indigenous Writers Residency, Overland’s 2018 Writers Residency and was shortlisted for Overland’s 2018 Nakata-Brophy poetry prize. She is currently completing her first collection of work to be published through Magabala Books. Watch the video on our YouTube.
Watch an intimate, engaging reading by Andy Jackson. Andy Jackson is a poet, essayist and creative writing teacher. He has been shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, the John Bray Poetry Award and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry. His latest poetry collection is Human Looking (Giramondo, 2021).
Watch the video on our YouTube.
Want to see poetry grow and flourish? Want more spoken word on the stage and creativity on the page?
Make a tax-deductable donation to Queensland Poetry today at qldpoetry.raisely.com
Your donation will help grow poetry in Queensland and beyond!
📣 Poetry opportunities
Westerly 67.1: 18 March deadline.
Baby Teeth Journal: 28 March deadline.
Voiceworks 127 - Gleam: 17 April deadline for poetry.
Cordite 107 - Liminal: 23 April deadline.
Rabbit Poetry: 31 May deadline.
The Five Islands Press Prize: 15 July deadline
Overland Journal: Open for poetry submissions.
#EnbyLife Journal: Submissions open to non-binary and gender diverse creatives.
📣 Upcoming Qld events
Poets UpLate at Wynnum Library: February 17
Ruckus Slam: February 23
Paint The Town - 2021 Queensland Regional Art Awards:
LAUNCH - 25 February.
EXHIBITION - 18 February - 23 April.
HOW TO WRITE A POEM with Eileen Myles: February 27
VOLTA MARCH featuring Svetlana Sterlin, Chloe Louise Mills and Beata Mazur: March 4
Poetry for the stage! with Laniyuk: March 8
Poets UpLate at Wynnum Library: March 17
Queensland Poetry Festival: 3-5 June