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POETRY NEWS

POETRY AT THE PUB
was begun to celebrate National Poetry
Week two years ago as part of bringing
poetry alive in the streets and in the
consciousness of the broader public.
This regular event is held on the first
Wednesday of every month at the
Lakeview Hotel in Merimbula from
6pm to 8.30pm.

Anybody is welcome to read or just
listen. During holiday periods, it is
wise to contact the Lakeview on:
6495 1202 and confirm details.


Click here to see Anna's poetry insights.

Literary Magazines that accept Poetry

Thanks to Anna Buck for providing this list of publications that accept unsolicited poems, and pay for them:

Linq

School of Humanities, James Cook University Townsville Qld 4811

Poetry Editor Dosia Reichardt

Title, page number, writers name and address on each sheet SAE if you want work returned. Include biographical note.

Payment - $30 and 2 issues of Linq. Quite Arty

Southerly

Department of English, Woolley Building A20 University of Sydney NSW 2006

Editors David Brooks and Noel Rowe

Poems $75, Short Stories $200. Intellectual, but basically accept good writing

Famous Reporter

Walleah Press, PO Box 368, North Hobart, Tasmania, 7002

Haiku – Lyn Reeves, 44 Bayside Drive, Lauderdale, Tas, 7021

Editors Ralph Wessman, Lyn Reeves, Lorraine

Merwood, Angela Rochel, Liz Wenfield and Warwick Wynne.

Accepts Haiku, poetry,short stories, essays, interviews and  reviews. SSAE.Take a bit of everything

Island

Editor David Owen, PO Box 210 Sandy Bay Tasmania 7006

Poetry Editor James Charlton

Poetry $60, Short Stories  $100

Strong environmental theme. SAE. Small autobiographical note.

Prefer modern style in short story writing, short, punchy poems

FourW

FourW Booranga Writers Centre Locked Bag 588 Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga  NSW 2678

Editor David Gilbey. Deadline June each year

Submissions on Word Disc or e-mail preferred, booranga(at)csu.edu.au

takes a bit of everything, likes experimental poetry

Wet Ink

Address all mail to Managing Editors Phillip Edmonds, Dominique Wilson

Wet Ink Magazine Inc PO Box 3162 Rundle Mall SA 5000

Read submission guidelines on website www.wetink.com.au

Poetry editors Heather Taylor Johnson, Stephen Lawrence, 

Fiction Editors Anna Solding Emmett Stinson

For new and experimental writing

Quadrant

Literary Editor Les Murray

Quadrant Magazine Co Inc, 437 Darling Street Balmain NSW 2041

SSAE, Minimum payment poems $50, short stories, articles and reviews $120.

While many of the articles are at the extreme right of politics, the poetry and short stories are not. Les Murray is highly approachable and will accept any poem or story that he thinks is well written and interesting.

Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

The Poetry Show

The Poetry Show is on each Tuesday
from 5.30-7.15pm on 93.7 EDGE FM
(in the Bega area).
Visiting published poets can contact
Tim Metcalf on 0264927345.

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