November 21 - 2024
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Shortlisted for The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2024, in the UK.
'The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that celebrates excellence
in Poetry and Short Fiction. Hosted by the international art and culture publication, Aesthetica Magazine.'
The shortlisted and winning pieces will appear in The Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2025,
an international showcase of new poetry and short fiction.
'The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award champions exceptional literary talent from across the globe.
The short fiction and poetry included in this anthology takes the temperature of society as we know it
today and demonstrates the strength and resilience of the human spirit.'
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Annual 2025 will be launched in December.
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November 11 - 2024
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'To the Middle Child Who Died' appears in 'BeHold: Responding to Wellington Words'.
A Wellington exhibition featuring: Nigel Brown, Marian Fountain, Tanya Ashken, Frances Battersby,
Graham Bennett, Lesley Fowler, Fiona Garlick, Anton Hart, Samantha Lissette, Christine Massey,
Richard Mathieson, Neil Miller, Gregory O'Brien, Terry Stringer, Marte Szirmay, Greer Twiss,
Chris Van Doren, Jim Wheeler.
'To the Middle Child Who Died' accompanies the work of Marian Fountain.
'This curated collection of works in sculpture, installation, painting and medal art offers a reflection
on the literary expressions written in and about our capital city. Visitors will have the privilege of
encountering a diverse spectrum of visual responses to poetry, prose, haiku and lyrics all paying homage
to the captivating essence of Te Whanganui-a-Tara and its environs. This exhibition is a unique
opportunity to appreciate the multifaceted artistic interpretations inspired by the cultural tapestry of Wellington.'
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October 29 - 2024
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Accepted for publication in the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025.
Edited by Tracey Slaughter, the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook is an international print journal
based in New Zealand and published by Massey University Press.
‘Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook is this country's oldest, most established poetry magazine. It is interested
not only in the work of established poets and experimental writing but also in that of new writers
trying to have their work recognised. It also contains reviews and articles concerning poetry in
New Zealand and elsewhere.’
The Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 will launch in March 2025.
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October 1 - 2024
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'Prism' appears in Heroines: An Anthology of Poetry Vol. 5, edited by Sarah Nicholson.
'Meet mythological women and goddesses from across the globe, dryads and selkies, muses
and manasa, artists, space explorers and more, in Heroines: An Anthology of Poetry.
Poetry by Kell Woods, Jennifer Harrison, Kathryn Reese, Heather Blakey, Melanie Ehler Collopy,
Alisha Brown, Suzi Mezei, Nicole Rain Sellers, Rebekah Sachno, Kimi Sugioka, Niamh Hollis-Locke,
Wes Lee, Andrea Ciocoi, Melissa Coffey, Dominique Richards, Frances Olivia, Vicky Morris,
Eleanore Arnold-Moore, Apeksha Harsh, Claire Hampson, Aoife Mannix, E.R Traina, Bruna
Gushurst-Moore, Lemma Dore, Denise O’Hagan, Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya , Rebecca Douglas,
Samantha Bews, Felicia McCarthy, Brittany Riley, Judith Rawnsley, Sarah Drury, Elia Elton, Rosie
Copeland, Menna Siwan Williams, Jaya Penelope, Indrani Perera, Jay Wilson, JV Birch, and Lakshmi
Kanchi.'
The global poetry anthology will be launched in ebook & in print in Sydney towards the end of the year.
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September 23 - 2024
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Longlisted for The Aurora Prize in the UK, judged by Andrew McMillan.
The Aurora Prize is offered by Writing East Midlands, in partnership with the Society of Authors,
in London..
The winners will be announced at The Aurora Prize Awards Ceremony on the 30th October 2024.
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September 20 - 2024
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Two poems appear in NOON: journal of the Short Poem, Issue 26, edited by Philip Rowland,
and launched in Tokyo.
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August 23 - 2024
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'On Shrouded Verandahs' appears in the Australian Poetry Journal 13.1
Guest edited by Sara M. Saleh and Autumn Royal. Cover art by Betty Muffler.
'APJ 13.1: 'place', 'non place', features poetry that challenges, documents, inhabits
and observes the physical, digital, and liminal locations we occupy and pass through.
Places or non-places we have dreamt of, navigated, or imagined.'
APJ 13.1 can be purchased in independent bookstores throughout Australia,
or direct from the Australian Poetry Journal website.
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August 16 - 2024
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Shortlisted for the Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize 2024 in Scotland, judged by Gerda Stevenson.
The threee poets shortlisted for the prize are Sarah Gibbons, Jennifer Harrison, and Wes Lee.
The Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize is offered by the Wigtown Book Festival in Scotland,
the winning pamphlet is designed and illustrated by Gerry Cambridge.
The winner will be announced at the Wigtown Book Festival in Scotland on October 4.
'I think a good poem should be a revelation, the powerful distillation of an experience, or an idea.
Here are two definitions of poetry that I like: 'Genuine poetry can communicate before
it is understood.' (T.S. Eliot). 'Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.' (Carl Sandburg).
As a musician, I appreciate poetry which pays careful attention to sound as well as meaning.'
— Gerda Stevenson
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June 5 - 2024
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Two poems appear in 'being: The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International
Poetry Prize Anthology', edited by Jen Webb.
The anthology showcases the winning and longlisted poems for The University of Canberra
Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize (AUD $15,000).
'William Carlos Williams argued that a poem is ‘a field of action’: a place where something happens,
a place where there is intense engagement with the contemporary world. The poems in this Prize anthology
bear this out, in finding the most contemporary language and structures in which to deal with the age-old
concerns of love and of death: the very stuff of being. These poems test the air; shift perspective; challenge
traditions; celebrate – with equal enthusiasm – the past and the future, the built and the natural worlds.'
— Jen Webb, University of Canberra
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May 25 - 2024
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'My Mother's Skin' appears in Landfall 247, edited by Lynley Edmeades.
Landfall 247 features new poetry by: Zephyr Zhang, Nicholas Wright, Kirby Wright,
Kit Willett, Rose Whitau, Chris Tse, Ariana Tikao, Nicola Thorstensen, Harry Ricketts,
Vaughan Rapatahana, Claire Orchard, Mikaela Nyman, Emma Neale, Federico Monsalve,
Harvey Molloy, Zoë Meager, Wes Lee, Fiona Kidman, Greg Judkins, Chris Holdaway,
Michael Hall, Craig Foltz, Michelle Elvy, David Eggleton. Mark Edgecombe, Brett Cross,
Medb Charleton, Chris Cantillon, Nathaniel Calhoun, Cindy Botha, Rebecca Ball,
Nick Ascroft, Nicola Andrews.
'Landfall is New Zealand’s foremost and longest running arts and literary journal. Published by
Otago University Press, it showcases new fiction, poetry, essays and cultural commentary.'
— Otago University Press
Landfall 247 is available in independent bookshops and direct from Otago University Press.
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May 5 - 2024
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Accepted for publication in the Heroines Global Poetry Anthology, Volume 5,
in New South Wales.
The shortlisted writers to appear in the anthology are: Kell Woods, Jennifer Harrison,
Kathryn Reese, Heather Blakey, Melanie Ehler Collopy, Alisha Brown, Suzi Mezei,
Nicole Rain Sellers, Rebekah Sachno, Kimi Sugioka, Niamh Hollis-Locke, Wes Lee,
Natalie Thomas, Andrea Ciocoi, Melissa Coffey, Michelle Richards, Frances Olivia,
Vicky Morris, Eleanore Arnold-Moore, Apeksha Harsh, Claire Hampson, Aoife Mannix,
Elena Traina, Bruna Gushurst-Moore, Lemma Dore, Denise O'Hagan, Tatiana
Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Rebecca Douglas, Samantha Bews, Felicia McCarthy, Brittany Riley,
Judith Rawnsley, Sarah Drury, Elia Elton, Rosie Copeland, Menna Siwan Williams,
Jaya Penelope, Indrani Perera, Jay Wilson, JV Birch, Lakshmi Kanchi.
The anthology will be published by Neo Perennial Press later this year.
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April 20 - 2024
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Awarded the Free Verse Prize, by The Poetry Society in London. The £500 prize was judged
this year by Chrissy Williams.
The prize was announced last night at the Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair in London.
'The Poetry Society’s Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair celebrates the vitality of poetry
in the UK – an unrivalled opportunity to browse the very best in contemporary poetry publishing
and to meet publishers, organisations and poets. With over 70 independent poetry publishers
in attendance, Free Verse offers the best chance to find innovative, new, and up-and-coming
poetry all in one place.' — The Poetry Society
Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and comic book writer based in the UK. Her poetry has been featured
on BBC radio and television, and her full collections are Bear (Bloodaxe, 2017) and Low (Bloodaxe, 2021).
"'Possession' felt to me the most arresting, the most urgent, the most relentless. Its disruptiveness
keeps calling me back, and it casts a well-controlled uneasiness, with all its violence and threat,
its "grinning and appeasing", and its derailing of conventional narrative experience."
— Chrissy Williams
Possession is published by The Poetry Society online and will be featured in the Summer 2024
edition of Poetry News as well as in the Free Verse programme issued to all attendees of the Fair.
Possession can be read here.
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April 20 - 2024
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Two poems appear in NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, Issue 25 (The Spring Issue),
edited by Philip Rowland, and launched in Tokyo.
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April 20 - 2024
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Longlisted for The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2024.
The winning poems will be announced in May and published in The London Magazine.
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March 23 - 2024
Accepted for publication in Landfall 247.
'Landfall is New Zealand’s foremost and longest running arts and literary journal. Published
by Otago University Press, it showcases new fiction, poetry, essays and cultural commentary.'
— Otago University Press
Landfall 247 will launch in May.
March 20 - 2024
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Four poems appear in the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024: Revelations. To be launched
at Poppies Bookshop in Hamilton on March 20.
'Edited by Tracey Slaughter, the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook is an international print journal
based in New Zealand and published by Massey University Press.'
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February 14 - 2024
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Two poems longlisted for Mslexia's Women's Poetry Competition 2023. The longlist was selected
by the judge Fiona Benson.
The 2,000 pound prize is offered by Mslexia Magazine in the UK.
Winners will be announced early March.
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February 12 - 2024
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Selected as a finalist for Southword Editions Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition
2023. One of Ireland's most prestigious prizes for a poetry chapbook, offered by The Munster
Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland.
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The finalists were selected from over 360 manuscript submissions from across the world.
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The Munster Literature Centre established the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition in 2005.
The two winning chapbooks will be published by Southword Editions and launched
at the Cork International Poetry Festival.
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January 25 - 2024
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Placed in the Dunedin Unesco City of Literature Robert Burns Competition 2023.
'The Dunedin Unesco City of Literature Robert Burns Competition 2023 is a collaboration between
the Dunedin Public Libraries and The Dunedin Burns Club. Entries are judged by associates
of the Robert Burns Fellowship and the winners are announced and presented with prizes in Dunedin
on 25 January, 2024.'
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The winning poems are published in the Otago Daily Times.
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December 22 - 2023
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Accepted for publication in the Australian Poetry Journal 13.1 'place', 'non place'. Guest edited
by Sara M. Saleh and Autumn Royal.
'APJ 13.1 seeks poetry that challenges, documents, inhabits and observes the physical, digital,
and liminal locations we occupy and pass through. Places or non-places we have dreamt of,
navigated, or imagined. How did these places or non-places come to be as they are and how did
you become to be in relation to them?
Non-place as zones, according to Marc Augé, when describing generic, anonymous spaces of
transience—stairwells, public bathrooms, airports, and hospital rooms.
We will be reading your work in places that are both personal, public, and in between—
how is your poetry anchored in this, how does it unsettle further?'
APJ 13.1 will be published in the New Year.
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December 1 - 2023
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Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in the UK.
'The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that celebrates excellence
in Poetry and Short Fiction. Hosted by the international art and culture publication, Aesthetica Magazine.'
The shortlisted and winning pieces appear in The Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2024, an
international showcase of new poetry and short fiction.
'The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award champions exceptional literary talent from across the globe.
The short fiction and poetry included in this anthology takes the temperature of society as we know it today
and demonstrates the strength and resilience of the human spirit.'
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Annual 2024 is available for direct from Aesthetica,
or throughout independant bookstores in the UK.
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November 27 - 2023
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Shortlisted for The Kathleen Grattan Award 2023 by the judge Anne Kennedy.
The Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award ($10,000) is offered by Otago University Press and is New Zealand's
foremost award for an original book-length collection of poems by a New Zealand or South Pacific
permanent resident or citizen.
The collections shortlisted by Anne Kennedy for the 2023 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award were:
Song of the Vowels by Brian Flaherty; A Year of Seasons by Saradha Koirala; Wearing Today by Wes Lee;
and Blue Hour by Jo McNeice.
The winner is Jo McNeice for Blue Hour.
The biennial award attracted 88 manuscripts this year.
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November 27 - 2023
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Landfall 246 announces the winner and shortlisted entries in the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2023.
The judges report appears in Landfall 246.
'Landfall is New Zealand’s foremost and longest running arts and literary journal. Published by Otago
University Press, it showcases new fiction, poetry, essays and cultural commentary.' — Otago University Press
Landfall 246 is available in independent bookshops and direct from Otago University Press.
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November 26 - 2023
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'Two Poems' appear in Meniscus Volume 11: Issue 2 at the University of Canberra, edited
by Jen Webb and Ginna Brock.
‘Meniscus is an online literary journal published by the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP).
Its aim is to provide a showcase for the best in contemporary international writing.’
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November 25 - 2023
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'i. core', appears in fourW thirty-four, the annual anthology of new writing, edited by David Gilbey
and launched at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery on November 25th, and in Sydney on December 2nd
at the Academy of Interactive Technology.
FourW is published by the Booranga Writers Centre at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales,
Australia.
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November 22 - 2023
'amphitheatre' appears in 'a liminal gathering' published by Elixir & Star Press and edited by
Iona Winter. The launch will take place on November 22 at the University Book Shop, Dunedin,
and The Women's Bookshop, in Auckland, on November 24.
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October 27 - 2023
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Two poems appear in NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, Issue 24, edited by Philip Rowland,
and launched in Tokyo.
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October 21 - 2023
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Two poems longlisted for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize
by the judges, Mani Rao and Tony Barnstone.
‘The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize (AUD $15,000) has been offered
annually since 2014.'
The winners will be announced in November.
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August 29 - 2023
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Before the Glittering Sea of California appears online, published by Banshee Press in Ireland.
The poem originally appeared in the print issue of the journal: issue #8: spring summer 2019.
Banshee is an Irish literary journal published biannually. Edited by Laura Cassidy, Claire Hennessy,
and Eimear Ryan, it features short stories, flash fiction, poetry, personal essays and interviews.
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August 25 - 2023
Commended in the POETS ON THE WRITERS WALK competition for Phantom Billstickers
National Poetry Day 2023.
POETS ON THE WRITERS WALK celebrates the poets and poems featured in, and inspired by, Wellington
Writers Walk.
Hosted by Tracy Farr, the salon will take place on August 25 at the City Gallery Wellington.
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August 17 - 2023
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'Botanical' appears in Fast Fibres Poetry 10, launched as part of Phantom Billstickers National
Poetry Day at ONEONESIX Bank Street Whangarei on Thursday 17 August at 5pm.
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Fast Fibres Poetry Collective's tenth collection is edited by Piet Nieuwland & Olivia Macassey.
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July 24 - 2023
Shortlisted for the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize, judged by Jay Bernard.
30 pamphlets have been shortlisted for the inugural prize selected from a pool of several hundred
pamphlet entries worldwide.
The winning pamphlet will be published by Poetry London's new imprint Poetry London Editions.
The winner will invited to launch their pamphlet at Poetry London's Autumn 2023 Readings
at the Southbank Centre as part of the London Literature Festival.
Jay Bernard, FRSL, is a British writer, artist, film programmer, and activist from London.
Bernard’s Surge, published by Chatto & Windus, won the Ted Hughes Award (2017) and
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (2020), and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize
(2019), Costa Poetry Award (2019), Dylan Thomas Prize (2020), and the RSL Ondaatje Prize (2020).
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'Its eclectic international editorial vision makes Poetry London one of the very best, essential poetry
magazines in English.' — Steve Berg, Editor, American Poetry Review
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The winner will be announced at the end of August.
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July 12 - 2023
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Two poems appear in Westerly 68.1, edited by Catherine Noske and Lucy Dougan at the Westerly Centre,
University of Western Australia, and launched by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth.
'This issue of Westerly includes a range of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and essays,
in addition to the 2023 Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture. Contributors to Westerly 68.1 include
Charmaine Papertalk Green, Ouyang Yu, John Kinsella, Jumaana Abdu, Stephen Muecke, Andrew
Sutherland, Brenda Saunders, DeWitt Henry, Michael Farrell, Wes Lee, Alan Fyfe, Gemma Nethercote Way,
Luisa Mitchell, Bryant Apolonio, Kate North, Ellen Shelley, Sampurna Chattarji, Jo Langdon,
Luoyang Chen, Julie Watts, Tiffany Ko, Christopher Konrad, Cass Lynch, Rachel Robertson,
Helena Kadmos, Jo Pollitt, Coral Carter, Suzanne Hermanoczki, Petra White, Kathryn Hummel,
Madeleine Dale and many others.'
Westerly 68.1 is available to purchase in independant bookstores across Australia and on
the Westerly website.
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July 2 - 2023
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'Daybreak' appears in Abridged 0-94 Severin, edited by Gregory McCartney and Susanna Galbraith,
in Northern Ireland.
'Abridged aims to publish and exhibit contemporary/ experimental poetry plus contemporary art.
We encourage poets/artists to investigate the articulation of ‘Abridged’ themes. These themes focus
on contemporary concerns in a rapidly changing society. We are offering an alternative and complete integration
of poetry, art and design. We experiment continually. We also stray into the exhibition format producing
contemporary, innovative and challenging work accompanied by a free publication.'
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June 19 - 2023
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Accepted for publication in Westerly 68.1, at the Westerly Centre, University of Western Australia.
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'Publishing since 1956, Westerly has always sought to provide a Western Australian-based voice, although its
contributors and subject matter have never been geographically exclusive. It publishes creative writing
and scholarship from throughout the world, but maintains a special emphasis on Australia, particularly
Western Australia, and the Asian region. Westerly has a strong international reputation, and is listed
in some of the world’s major cultural indexes.'
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Westerly 68.1 will be launched by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth from 6pm on Thursday the 13th of July at
Bar Orient in Fremantle, WA.
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May 31 - 2023
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Accepted for publication in Abridged 0-94 'Severin', edited by
Gregory McCartney and Susanna Galbraith, in Northern Ireland.
'Abridged aims to publish and exhibit contemporary/ experimental
poetry plus contemporary art. We encourage poets/artists to investigate
the articulation of ‘Abridged’ themes. These themes focus on contemporary
concerns in a rapidly changing society. We are offering an alternative
and complete integration of poetry, art and design. We experiment continually.
We also stray into the exhibition format producing contemporary, innovative
and challenging work accompanied by a free publication.'
Abridged 0-94 'Severin' will launch in Belfast in June.
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April 6 - 2023
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Shortlisted for The NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize 2023
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Five manuscripts have been selected for the shortlist by Tina
Shaw and Cassie Hart.
The shortlisted writers are: Susan Elliffe, Melanie Kwang, Wes Lee,
Lee Murray, and Kathryn van Beek.
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The shortlist judges commented: ‘The applicants for this year's NZSA
Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize showed a huge range of inspiring and
talented use of genres and styles. This made the selection of a shortlist
both exciting and challenging as Cassie Hunt and I read manuscripts
that ran the gamut of literary forms. We're pleased to be able to offer
a shortlist of five dynamic manuscripts that fulfil Laura's brief
of being 'unique and original.’
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The winner will be announced May/June.
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March 9 - 2023
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'A Naked Wish' appears in the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023 edited
by Tracey Slaughter, and launched by Massey University
Press at Poppies Bookshop, Hamilton.
Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2023 can be purchased from independent
bookstores around New Zealand, or direct from Massey University Press.
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January 28 - 2023
'Whitby' appears in the The AUB International Poetry Prize 2022
anthology published by the Arts University Bournemouth in the UK,
and edited by Elizabeth Woodgate.
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