Australia poetry News

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Ambience Productions announces a call to all poets to enter the first annual poetry contest: The Ambience Poetry Contest 2010. The contest is run online and attracts entries in all categories from poets around the globe.

Magdalena Ball is an old fashioned scribe at heart ... now she’s spearheading the greatest revolution in publishing since the invention of the printing press 550 years ago.

Fremantle Press poet Tracy Ryan won the ABR Poetry Prize worth $4000 for her poem ‘Lost Property’ this month. The win coincides with Tracy’s appointment to the editorial committee developing the Fremantle Press poetry anthology Shorelines 2.

Popular author Askin Ozcan's recently published five books, are now available also in Australia, at www.fishpond.com.au

A generation ago talking publicly about childhood sexual abuse and other forms of abuse were frowned upon and the abused were often left alone to feel the shame of their ordeal and cope in silence. Have things changed for today's generation?