Competitions

Poetry Competitions including entry information and results

Schedule of FSP 50th Anniversary events

2025 marks 50 years of operation of Friendly Street Poets. To celebrate this momentous milestone, we will be hosting a series of special events, summarised below. Put them in your calendar and keep an eye out for more details of specific events closer to the time. Everyone is welcome, but some events require pre-booking.

Sunday 26th October 2025
Launch of the New Poets 26 and Single Poet 2025 books.
Effective Living Centre, 26 King William Road, Wayville.
Doors open at 2.00pm for a 2.30pm start.
Click here for the Facebook event and more information.

Friday 7th November 2025
The Poetry Love In
Box Factory, Regent Street South, Adelaide.… Click for more

Winners of New Poets 26 and Single Poet 2025 competitions!

The results of the FSP New Poets 26 and Single Poet 2025 competitions are in!

Congratulations to the winners of New Poets 25 as judged by Avalanche:
John Atkinson for My Solid Heart
Kylie Dinning for Skimming the Seaweed
Matt Gaughwin for Thoughts of Deduska

Congratulations and commiserations to the Commended Poet:
Alex Robertson for The Plains Life

The standard of the submissions was very high. Click here to read the Judge’s Report in full:


I was asked very kindly if I’d judge this year’s crop for the Three Poets publication – of course, always happy to put something back, after all, FS has been a mainstay in poetry and spoken word circles hereabouts.?T

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FSP August City Meeting, Open Mic and Announcement of Publication Winners.

Friday, 1st August, 2025
Doors open at 6:00pm for 6:15pm start

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

$5 to read; free to listen.
Strict 3-minute time limit, including any introductions, explanations and post-scripts.

During the meeting, the winners of the New Poets 26 and Single Poet 2025 competitions will be announced.

You can submit poems read at the Open Mic for consideration in the next Anthology via the form below.

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Eastwood/Hills Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary Competitions 2025

Two poetry competitions of interest to FSP members are now open. Although based in NSW, anyone can enter. See below for guidelines and links.

EASTWOOD/HILLS FELLOWSHIP OF AUSTRALIAN WRITERS 
LITERARY COMPETITION 2025

Closing Date: 15th May, 2025

 All categories – Open Theme

Category 1: Flash Fiction
Max 500 words. First Prize $150, Second Prize $50

Category 2: Philippa Holland Award for Poetry 
Includes all forms of poetry except Bush Poetry (see separate Boree Log competition below)
Max 80 lines per poem. First Prize $150, Second Prize $50

Category 3: Alan Russell Award for Memoir
Max 1,500 words. First Prize $150, Second Prize $50

Category 4: Short Story.… Click for more

New Poets 25 launch

Wednesday, 20 November, 2024

Ern Malley
137 Magill Road, Stepney, SA 5069

Pre drinks at 6.00pm
Launch starts at 6.45pm

Come and join the winners of the New Poets 25 competition for the launch of their book with new collections from
Vicky Ireland: Orange Oceans
Robbie Lennard: Shermika
phil saunders: Foundlings not Lost

Copies of the book will be available on the night.

Light refreshments and alcohol available.

The event will be MCd by Nigel Ford, Convenor of Friendly Street Poets.

Launch of Anthology 48 – Mimesis – and Satura Prize winning poem.

Friendly Street Anthology 48 – Mimesis, was launched on Monday, 5th Augus, 2024, at the Box Factory in Adelaide to a full house. Judge Mike Ladd, a founding member of Friendly Street Poets, a widely published poet and former producer of ABC’s Radio National programme Poetica, awarded the  Satura Prize to Helen Hutton for Going Home, a poem which addresses the insidious and socially silent crime of Domestic Violence but which is finally in the social and literary zeitgeist. Helen also won the Satura Prize last year for her poem, For Grace, in Anthology 47, Round the Bend, edited by Veronica and David Cookson.… Click for more

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