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The Australian Children’s Poetry blog showcases contemporary poems for children written by Australian poets.

We accept unsolicited poetry submissions in response to our monthly Poetry Prompts or on open themes, especially with an Australian flavour. We prefer poems of 300 words or less in an easily reproduced format (text or image). We are unable to provide feedback, editing or assessment services.

January Prompt 2026

Date prompts:

  • International Kite Day (14th Jan)
  • Penguin Awareness Day (20th Jan)
  • Australia Day (26th Jan)

Picture prompt:

from the painting TIME TO GROW by Sharon Davson

Adult authors, please send one poem at a time.  If you have a specific image to accompany your poem, please include acknowledgement of the artist/photographer and ensure you have permission to use their work.  If you have chosen an image from a royalty-free database such as Pexels or Pixabay, please include the link to that image.

For teachers and homeschooling adults, please submit your best 3 class poems (no image).  Successful children’s poems will appear as: POEM TITLE by FIRST NAME ONLY at SCHOOL NAME and STATE/TERRITORY. Australian Children’s Poetry will not publish or correspond on poems that are not submitted via an adult’s email address.

By submitting, you:

  1. Confirm this is an original creation.
  2. Assure us that AI wasn’t used and nothing was plagiarised.
  3. Give us permission to publish and archive any accepted poem in our online format.
  4. Still retain copyright of your work.

We occasionally share information about children’s poetry activities including events, poetry links and competitions.

This website was founded through a donation by Illawarra South-Coast CBCA and operated by Dianne Bates in 2014. Later Administrators include Teena Raffa-Mulligan, Jeannie Axton and Kerry Gittins.  Early contributors included Anne Bell, Dianne Cook, Margaret Pearce, Jennifer Erlanger, Stephen Whiteside, Pat Simmons, Janeen Brian, Wendy Blaxland, Dianne Ellis and Katherine Gallagher.

COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: All articles and poems are copyrighted. As such, please acknowledge the poet if you read their poetry to classes or make copies for class use. Any copies need to be included on your CAL (Copyright) records.

Submissions and enquiries to Linda Davidson at:
ozchildrenspoetry@gmail.com

This blog site was designed and constructed by Helen Ross.