Post by jeannerené on Sept 15, 2007 8:08:51 GMT -8
(UK)National Poetry Competition
www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/competitions/npc/
www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/competitions/npc/
National Poetry Competition 2007 is now open for entries!
Enter now
This is a wonderful opportunity to have your poems read by three of the leading poets writing today as well as a chance chance to win £5000! You can also see your name added to a prestigious roll call of past winners including Carol Ann Duffy, Tony Harrison, Jo Shapcott, Ian Duhig, Ruth Padel.
This year's judges
E A Markham has published a novel, a memoir, five collections of short stories and nine volumes of poetry, including A Rough Climate, shortlisted for the 2002 T. S. Eliot prize. His New & Selected Poems will be published by Anvil in the Spring of 2008. He has taught at various universities in the UK and Ireland, notably for fourteen years at Sheffield Hallam (until 2005), where he was Professor of Creative Writing.
Michael Schmidt is currently Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University, where he is convenor of the Creative Writing M.Litt. programme. He is a founder (1969) and editorial and managing Director of Carcanet Press Limited, and a founder (1972) and general editor of PN Review. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he received and O.B.E. in 2006 for services to poetry. His New and Selected Poems and his collection, The Resurrection of the Body, are available from Smith.Doorstop.
Penelope Shuttle
Penelope Shuttle talks about the importance of the National Poetry Competition to writers at any stage in their careers.
Penelope Shuttle was born near London but has lived in Cornwall since 1970. She is the widow of Peter Redgrove (1932-2003). Since her first collection from Oxford University Press, she has published eight collections, including a Selected Poems (1998). Her most recent collection, Redgrove's Wife, was shortlisted for both the Forward and the T. S. Eliot Prizes 2006. She is currently working on new poems and on a memoir of her life with Peter Redgrove.
History
Since it was established in 1978 by the Poetry Society, the National Poetry Competition has become the biggest and most prestigious poetry competition of its kind. Its popularity spans the globe, with entries received from all around the world. All entries are judged anonymously and past winners include both published and previously unknown poets.
Prizes
First prize £5,000
Second prize £1,000
Third prize £500
plus ten commendations of £50
Winners also get the opportunity to read their winning poem alongside the judges at the 2008 judges at Ledbury Poetry Festival. For more information on the Festival, described by Andrew Motion as "the best in the country", call 0845 458 1743 or visit www.poetry-festival.com
And it doesn't end there. Since finding out he won, Last year's winner Mike Barlow (pictured below) has since been asked to also read with Jean Sprackland at the Wordsworth Trust on October 16 2007 (call 015394 63527). Even more excitingly Mike's second collection is due to be published by Salt Publishing in October. As Mike goes on to say "
"This is the first submission I'd made of my new book since winning and the response was very quick, a combination of my name being up there and finding a lucky slot in the publisher's schedule. When all's said and done it's the book as a whole that is taken, but being a National winner must raise awareness of your name and increase your chances of being considered seriously."
What are you waiting for! Enter now
Entry Fee:
£5.00 for first poem then £3.00 for each subsequent entry. Members of the Poetry Society can enter a second poem free of charge.
Closing date:
31 October 2007
If you would like an entry form to be sent to you please send an A5 SAE to Competition Organiser (website), 22 Betterton Street, London, WC2H 9BX.
Enter now
This is a wonderful opportunity to have your poems read by three of the leading poets writing today as well as a chance chance to win £5000! You can also see your name added to a prestigious roll call of past winners including Carol Ann Duffy, Tony Harrison, Jo Shapcott, Ian Duhig, Ruth Padel.
This year's judges
E A Markham has published a novel, a memoir, five collections of short stories and nine volumes of poetry, including A Rough Climate, shortlisted for the 2002 T. S. Eliot prize. His New & Selected Poems will be published by Anvil in the Spring of 2008. He has taught at various universities in the UK and Ireland, notably for fourteen years at Sheffield Hallam (until 2005), where he was Professor of Creative Writing.
Michael Schmidt is currently Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University, where he is convenor of the Creative Writing M.Litt. programme. He is a founder (1969) and editorial and managing Director of Carcanet Press Limited, and a founder (1972) and general editor of PN Review. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he received and O.B.E. in 2006 for services to poetry. His New and Selected Poems and his collection, The Resurrection of the Body, are available from Smith.Doorstop.
Penelope Shuttle
Penelope Shuttle talks about the importance of the National Poetry Competition to writers at any stage in their careers.
Penelope Shuttle was born near London but has lived in Cornwall since 1970. She is the widow of Peter Redgrove (1932-2003). Since her first collection from Oxford University Press, she has published eight collections, including a Selected Poems (1998). Her most recent collection, Redgrove's Wife, was shortlisted for both the Forward and the T. S. Eliot Prizes 2006. She is currently working on new poems and on a memoir of her life with Peter Redgrove.
History
Since it was established in 1978 by the Poetry Society, the National Poetry Competition has become the biggest and most prestigious poetry competition of its kind. Its popularity spans the globe, with entries received from all around the world. All entries are judged anonymously and past winners include both published and previously unknown poets.
Prizes
First prize £5,000
Second prize £1,000
Third prize £500
plus ten commendations of £50
Winners also get the opportunity to read their winning poem alongside the judges at the 2008 judges at Ledbury Poetry Festival. For more information on the Festival, described by Andrew Motion as "the best in the country", call 0845 458 1743 or visit www.poetry-festival.com
And it doesn't end there. Since finding out he won, Last year's winner Mike Barlow (pictured below) has since been asked to also read with Jean Sprackland at the Wordsworth Trust on October 16 2007 (call 015394 63527). Even more excitingly Mike's second collection is due to be published by Salt Publishing in October. As Mike goes on to say "
"This is the first submission I'd made of my new book since winning and the response was very quick, a combination of my name being up there and finding a lucky slot in the publisher's schedule. When all's said and done it's the book as a whole that is taken, but being a National winner must raise awareness of your name and increase your chances of being considered seriously."
What are you waiting for! Enter now
Entry Fee:
£5.00 for first poem then £3.00 for each subsequent entry. Members of the Poetry Society can enter a second poem free of charge.
Closing date:
31 October 2007
If you would like an entry form to be sent to you please send an A5 SAE to Competition Organiser (website), 22 Betterton Street, London, WC2H 9BX.
