
As well as submitting poems to magazines and journals, it’s a good idea to enter your work in competitions. With that in mind, I did a quick search online today. Here is a list from The Hunter Writers Centre. Note that the submission deadline for the first one is 31 March, 2021. So get those entries in now.
W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia
Adelaide Plains Poets Inc Poetry Competition – Poetic Pause blogspot
National Henry Lawson Society Poetry Competition
The Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize
Eastwood/Hills Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary Competition
Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards
Scribes Writers – “Poetic Licence”
Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Competition
Ipswich Poetry Feast International Poetry Writing Competition
Australian Bush Poetry Events Calendar including latest The Kembla Flame