Here’s my slowly growing list of submission openings. This is the first time I’ve tried to juggle submission deadlines as well as performance deadlines, so I needed this central list to stay organised. The opportunities here are mostly for poetry in Australia. Contact me if I missed any.
2018
Year Round:
Meniscus: biannual open access literary journal; submissions read in Feb and Aug
Overland: fiction, non-fiction, poetry
Quadrant: published 10 times yearly; submissions by post
Southerly: literary journal
Going Down Swinging online, pitches accepted
Unknown / TBA:
The Lifted Brow: Quarterly print literary magazine and publisher
February
Suburban Review: Poetry, fiction, non-fiction
Verity La: on-line creative arts journal, multiple forms – open now
March
Australia Council PPCA partnership: for sound recording – closes 7 March
QPF – closes 23 March
WB Yeats Poetry Prize – closes 31 March
KYD Unpublished manuscript award – closes 31 March
Newcastle Poetry Prize – now open; closes 11 June
Adelaide Plains poetry competition – now open; closes 6 July
Cordite – now open; closes 20 May
Plumwood Mountain: journal of ecopoetry – now open; closes 30 April
Malevolent Soap: journal of fiction and poetry – now open
Aesthetica creative writing award – now open, closes 31 August
Westerly: literature and culture magazine – now open for July edition
ACU poetry prize – now open, closes 20 July
April
Sutherland Shire literary competition – closes 30 April
The Carmel Bird digital literary award: short prose – closes 30 April
Not Very Quiet: women and poetry – theme posted
Plumwood Mountain: journal of ecopoetry – closes 30 April
Underground writers: volunteer-run e-zine, emerging writers encouraged – closes 8 April
Kerouac residencies: close 16 April
Overland special edition: ‘false documents’ – closes 30 April
May
Cordite – closes 20 May
StylusLit: bi-annual online literary journal; open for September edition
The Lifted Brow experimental non-fiction prize – closes 31 May
June
Newcastle Poetry Prize – closes 11 June
Going Down Swinging – submissions open halfway through the year
University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s international poetry prize – closes 30 June
StylusLit: bi-annual online literary journal; open for September edition
Verity La: on-line creative arts journal, multiple forms – open now
Australia Council career development grants: close 5 June for projects starting after 1 Sep
July
Adelaide Plains poetry competition – closes 6 July
ACU poetry prize – closes 20 July
Not Very Quiet: women and poetry – now open
XYZ Prize for innovation in Spoken Word Poetry through Queensland Poetry Festival – closes 6 July
August
Westerly: literature and culture magazine – now open for November edition
Verity La: on-line creative arts journal, multiple forms – open now. Includes Slot Machine for spoken word and performative text – hoorah!!
Puncher and Wattman first book poetry prize: This award is for an unpublished manuscript of poems. The winner will be announced and their book will be launched at the Newcastle Writers’ Festival in April of the subsequent year. open on August 15 and close on November 30 each year.
September
Frontier Poetry Prize: closes 15 September. Also accepting poetry submissions year round for online publication.
October
Australia Council career development grants: close 2 Oct for projects starting after 1 Jan 2019
November
StylusLit: bi-annual online literary journal; open for March edition
Puncher and Wattman first book poetry prize: This award is for an unpublished manuscript of poems. The winner will be announced and their book will be launched at the Newcastle Writers’ Festival in April of the subsequent year. open on August 15 and close on November 30 each year.
December
StylusLit: bi-annual online literary journal; open for March edition
Sarah Temporal 
Thanks for sharing this! It’s super helpful.
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