📣 The QRAA Ekphrasis Challenge is now open!
Hello poets and poetry lovers,
This month you can enter The 2021 QRAA Ekphrasis Challenge! This Challenge invites poets Australia-wide to respond to artworks featured in the Queensland Regional Arts Awards. To read the guidelines and enter your poems, head to our website. The deadline is 22 November!
If you’re wanting some poetic inspiration, look no further than the 2021 Val Vallis Award winners, now published on the Cordite Poetry Review website, and winner of the XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word, now published at Melbourne Spoken Word.
Don’t forget to book your ticket for our last event of the year - an Open Mic Night with La Boite Theatre! Grab your ticket for Saturday 13 November over at the La Boite website.
Yours in poetry,
— The QP Team
📣 QRAA Ekphrasis Challenge
The QRAA Ekphrasis Challenge invites poets Australia-wide to respond to artworks featured in the Queensland Regional Arts Awards.
Each of the poets selected is awarded a fee for their writing, which is published as didactic response alongside the works either online or as part of the physical tour of regional Queensland.
Enter your work via our website.
📣 2021 Queensland Poetry Val Vallis Award Winners
You can read the award-winning poems from this year's Val Vallis, now published on the Cordite Poetry Review website.
Dimitra Harvey wins the 2021 Queensland Poetry Val Vallis Prize with ‘Cicadas’; Dan Hogan wins second prize with ‘How_to_be_the_best_worker_in_the_world.ppt’; and Damen O’Brien receives the Highest Queensland entry for ‘What’s Wrong With the Date?’.
With thanks to judges Andy Jackson and Sara Saleh.
📣 2021 XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word
Congratulations to Megan J. Riedl for winning the XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word!
Melbourne Spoken Word has published her winning entry, 'Single White Female.'
Have a listen via the Melbourne Spoken Word website.
📣 Volta Poetry returns 2022
That's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who attended our last VOLTA of the year, featuring Elly-Grace Rinaldis, Rosanna E. Licari and Shastra Deo.
We can't wait to see you next year from February 2022 for another series of electric poetry, spoken word and the unexpected, co-presented with Brisbane Square Library.
📣 Open Mic night with La Boite
We’ve partnered with La Boite Theatre to deliver one of their best Open Mic Nights yet! Kicking off with a sizzling local line-up, featuring Holly Robertson, Tony Norris, Rebecca Jessen and Mindy Gill, followed by an hour of open mic.
BOOK YOUR TICKET for Saturday 13 November ON THE LA BOITE WEBSITE.
(Credit: Mindy Gill headshot by Alex Philp.)
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📣 Poetry opportunities
Cordite: Submissions close 14 November
QRAA Ekphrasis Challenge: 22 November
Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize: 9 December
Rabbit Poetry Journal: Submissions close 10 December.
Strange Horizons: Open year-round for poetry.
Rattle: Open year-round.
Overland Journal: Open for poetry submissions.
#EnbyLife Journal: Submissions open to non-binary and gender diverse creatives.
Got a call-out you'd like poets to know about? Email marketing@qldpoetry.org.
📣 Upcoming Qld events
Open Mic Night with La Boite: Sat 13 Nov.
Sovereign Stories – First Nations literary salon and afternoon tea: Sat 20 Nov
Story Week: 22nd to 28th Nov
Ruckus Grande Finale PROM SLAM! 25 Nov
Got an event you'd like poets to know about? Email events@qldpoetry.org.