ACU Prize for Poetry

Competition Information

The ACU Prize for Poetry is open for submissions.

Submission Guidelines & Terms of Entry

  • The theme for the 2025 ACU Prize for Poetry is Belonging.
  • Accepting poems of up to 60 lines.
  • Poems must be in English, be the original work of entrants and unpublished (including on any website or blog).
  • Open to Australian residents, including any international student currently studying at an Australian university, are eligible to enter.
  • ACU staff members (except the panel of judges) and ACU students are eligible to enter.

Judges: Emeritus Professor Margot Hillel OAM and Professor Robert H F Carver

Entry fee: $25

Prizes: First prize: $10,000, Second prize: $5,000, Third prize: $3,000, Highly commended: $750

Deadline: Sunday 1 June 2025

All details, all submissions via their website.

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