Stilts

15/07/2021

Take a look at this poem by Emilie Collyer in our latest issue

The publisher says ‘all you need is a hook’. Hundreds of hungry writers scribble: ‘trauma’ ⎯she doesn’t literally say trauma but it’s implied, a quiet nod that to sell books there’s gotta be like a brilliant pain to keep the pages turning, make it worth a reader’s while, titillatin...

14/07/2021

Stilts Issue 9 is now up and running! Go to our website to see the issue www.stiltsjournal.com

30/09/2020

Exciting news: Issue 8 of Stilts is now live over on www.stiltsjournal.com featuring 12 brand new poems!!!

PLUS submissions for Issue 9 are now open until October 31st, so head over and take a look at Issue 8 then send us your poems for Issue 9!

Stilts is a triannual journal of contemporary Australian poetry.

30/04/2020

Issue 7 is now live, everyone! Ready for your reading pleasure, for what better way is there to spend one’s time than reading poetry? This time we bring you poems by Geoff Page, Anne Elvey, Paul Dawson, Gavin Yuan Gao, Luke Best, Tamryn Bennett, Chantelle Mitchell, Milton P. Erlich, Dženana Vucic, Rae White, Nellie Le Beau, and Stuart Barnes.

Happy reading 💫🗝💡

https://www.stiltsjournal.com/issue-7

14/04/2020

This is ‘A Geometrist’, in our latest issue 👀

✍️ Kiara Lindsay is a poet. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the University of Melbourne in 2017. Alongside Bridget Gilmartin, she co-edits Inhabit Journal and hosts a reading series called Evening Swim. In 2018, Kiara was the recipient of the H.B. Higgins Poetry Scholarship. She is a current EWF Writer in Residence at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

geometry 1. a branch of mathematics that deals with the measurement, properties, and relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids&nbs

09/04/2020

Have you been writing lately? Looking for a home for your poetry?

Rabbit Poetry Journal is currently accepting submissions of nonfiction poetry for Issue 31: The SCIENCE Issue, to be guest-edited by Tricia Dearborn (author of Autobiochemistry, 2019).

http://rabbit.submittable.com/submit/164154/rabbit-31-the-science-issue

08/04/2020

Submit your poetry to us 💫

Stilts is a triannual journal of contemporary Australian poetry.

06/04/2020

Thanks to Line Break and Zenobia Frost for bringing everyone entertainment this week! We can’t wait to hear more poetry in the weeks to come.

Your Sunday night Quarantine Poetry reader is the glorious Zenobia Frost, author of ‘After the Demolition’, a poetry collection published by Cordite Poetry. ...

23/02/2020

Here is ‘(beauty peace)’ by Grace Yee in Stilts Issue 6 ✍️ Grace Yee's poems have most recently appeared in Overland, Meanjin, Rabbit and Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Grace teaches writing and literature at the University of Melbourne and is currently a Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria.

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22/02/2020

👋 Submissions for Issue 8 are open until 24th April

We know that may seem a long way away, but feel free to send us your work now (or you know, when it’s convenient) because we want to read your poetry.

Go to our website for more details https://www.stiltsjournal.com/about

03/02/2020

To start off the week we’ve been reading poetry from The Lifted Brow

  گفتگو به خواهرم گفتم از بازارهای شلوغ کابُل از میدان های شهر و محله های بزرگان دوری کن.  گفت: اما اینجا مرگ مثل گرد در هواست همه پنجره ها را ببندی نیز سرانجام به ....

11/12/2019

Stilts Issue 6 is now up on the website and ready for you to read.

This time, featuring outstanding poems from Pam Brown, Magan Magan, Damen O’Brien, Jill Jones, Samantha Abdy, Hazel Smith, Jane Gibian, Kiara Lindsay, Sean West, Grace Yee, Jaya Sivage and Jake Goetz.

We are so happy and privileged to share this issue of the journal with you. Enjoy, and happy reading 🍃

https://www.stiltsjournal.com/current-issue