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16/10/2026

We're thrilled that 'Dog Act(or)' by Tim Loveday, first published by Cordite and Australian Poetry as part of our Tell Me Like You Mean It anthology, has been shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Award!

Huge congrats to Tim, and to all other shortlistees and publications recognised by this award. Voting is now open for the Readers' Choice Award, if you want to give some extra love to 'Dog Act(or)'. 🐶

https://www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au/Library/Digital-Literary-Award

14/10/2026

Cordite is participating in 2026 on 22 October!

We're hoping to raise $5000 to pay editors and contributors of our illustrious journal, Cordite Poetry Review. Thanks to the incredible generosity of our existing supporters, we're already 34% towards our goal.

Can you help us the rest of the way? Donations are tax-deductible and forever appreciated. If you don't have the means, a share also goes a long way.

Give here: https://www.givenow.com.au/corditeausart2026

Thank you to our amazing community!

10/10/2026

"What CONDITIONS produce poetry? Who defines them?"

Submit to Cordite 123: CONDITIONS, with guest editors Autumn Royal and Alice Bellette. Submissions close 13 December 2026, 11:59pm Melbourne time.

Image: Tile featuring the above info and headshots of Autumn and Alice. Image of Autumn by Thomas McCammon.

https://cordite.org.au/guncotton/terms-and-conditions/

06/10/2026

"In villages, love is a peach blossom,
time, a salve."

– Excerpt of 'Lyric Times' by A Hua, translated by translated by Xuelan Su

A Hua, born Wang Xiaohua, is from Weihai, Shandong province, northern China. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as The People’s Literature, Poetry Magazine, Mountain Flowers, Flying Apsaras a…

05/10/2026

“...writing about homeland, longing within the diaspora feels particularly precarious. It can easily rot into cliché. I am concerned not just about failing to translate my intentions for a commercial literary establishment, but about fully exposing my vulnerability to an indifferent room.”

Together with Diversity Arts, we're thrilled to platform this convo between Ilhan Abdi and Sofia Pimentel on Somali archives, and resisting the tokenistic tropes expected of diaspora writers in Australia.

“You are a child of Maandeeq, the she-camel of prosperity, raised in the oral tradition on a diet of poetry, music and Grisly Tales for Somali kids, yet still shaped by this colony.” This is an ext…

30/09/2026

BOOK REVIEW: 'Past and Parallel Lives' by Kaya Ortiz and 'The Hum Hearers' by Shey Marque, reviewed by Munira Tabassum Ahmed

"There is a perseverant communication between story and body, where the body remembers a story that is almost inaccessible to the mind."

The first reference to water in Kaya Ortiz’s collection Past and Parallel Lives (2025) is “memory like water, fickle and evaporating” (‘Final Boarding Call’, 3). A positioning that struck me, disor…

27/09/2026

"One of my earliest memories is being trapped by an uncomfortably safe seatbelt into the back of a 1980s-hot family van and seeing a gigantic swimming pool come into view. This pool emerged, mirage-like, from a hazy horizon of eucalyptus trees and melting bitumen."

– Liz Taylor, 'Uneasy dreams: A century of change in Victoria’s public swimming pools'

One of my earliest memories is being trapped by an uncomfortably safe seatbelt into the back of a 1980s-hot family van and seeing a gigantic swimming pool come into view. This pool emerged, mirage-…

24/09/2026

Gird your poems!

Cordite's THRUM submissions close next week! 🫯

https://cordite.org.au/guncotton/calling-all-thrumheads/

23/09/2026

"Ghosts are what appear when the violence of history returns to remind us of what used to be here. They hover above and below the buildings and pavers that are here now, ephemeral figments of my vision that make me uneasy whenever I walk through Parramatta, across this square I adore."

Together with Diversity Arts, we're thrilled to publish this special feature by Deborah Prospero, in which she walks through Parramatta with Eda Gunaydin.

I’ve been meaning to write about Parramatta for almost two years now. Mainly because I love it here, but also because I feel uneasy at times. A disproportionate amount of my week is spent in Parram…