Founded by Johanna Featherstone in 2003, Red Room Poetry (RR) is Australia's leading organisation for commissioning, creating, publishing and promoting poetry in meaningful ways. 

RR has a reputation for excellence and invention, delivering projects that are unparalleled in their quality, scale, professional payment of poets, cultural impact, amplification and engagement of poets, students and audiences of all ages.

Reflecting the diversity of Australian voices, RR commissions and publishes poetry of all styles and stages. We develop creative and critical contexts where poetry is explored across languages, landscapes and mediums in and beyond literary communities to make poetry and creative expression widely accessible.

RR is a not-for-profit organisation with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status. We advocate for professional payment of poets ensuring sustainability, quality creation and the future of Australian literature.

Red Room Poetry is not a First Nations organisation though we explore Indigenous ways of being in our work. Read our Truth and Reconciliation Pledge: https://redroompoetry.org/about/truth-and-reconciliation-pledge/

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