Competition for Poets and a Chance to Win £5,000 at the 2020 Ginkgo Poetry Prize

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Organisation à but non lucratif

Ginkgo Prize

Date limite

31 oct. 2020

Niveau d'études

Enseignement professionnel

Type d'opportunité

Compétition

Financement d'opportunité

Financement complet

Pays éligibles

Algérie , Comores , Egypte , Jordanie , Liban , Mauritanie , Oman , Qatar , Soumalie , Syrie , Émirats arabes unis , bahrain , Djibouti , Iraq , Kuwait , Libya , Maroc , Palestine , Arabie Saoudite , Soudan , Tunisie , Yemen

Région éligible

Toutes les régions

Applications are open for The Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry 2020. The Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry is a major international award for poems embracing ecological themes. The Prize aims to highlight the role poetry can play in raising awareness, gaining insight, and provoking concern for the ecological imperatives of our time. The judges are UK Poet Laureate, novelist and activist Simon Armitage and poet, critic, and commissioning editor Jade Cuttle. This year, they are launching a separate prize with Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty – the theme will be Landscape, and the £500 prize will be awarded to The Best Poem of Landscape.

Eligibility:

This prize is international and anyone can enter a poem written in the English language.
Poems must be written in the English language, can be any length or form, and must engage with the climate crisis.
Poems cannot have been previously published and printed or be entered for any other Prize.

Entry fees: GBP 7 for the first entry, GBP 4 for each additional poem.

Prizes:

1st prize: GBP 5,000.
2nd prize: GBP 2,000.
3rd prize: GBP 1,000.

Terms and Conditions:

All entries are anonymized for judging, so please do not add your name to your poem. The online system will ensure that your name is kept secure.
Although it is based in the UK, the Ginkgo Prize is international – they welcome submissions from all over the world.
Applicants must be aged 18 or above.
Poems must be written in the English language, translations are not eligible.
Poems can be any length and follow any form. They don’t need to address a specific theme, but should in some way – thematically, structurally, linguistically, or formally – investigate the ecology, the environment, or the relationship between human culture and the natural world.
Poems cannot have been previously published and printed or be entered for any other prize.
Applicants may submit as many poems as they like: the first submission will cost £7 then it will cost £4 for each additional poem.
Each poem must be entered individually.
Poems must be the entrant’s original work.
A poem written by more than one author is not eligible.
Work submitted on behalf of an author who is deceased at the date of publication of the work is not eligible.

About the Ginkgo Prize:

The Ginkgo Prize is a major international award for ecopoetry, funded by the Edward Goldsmith Foundation and organized by the Poetry School. Every year, the competition awards £8,000 in prize money, provides writers’ residencies for the winners, and supports the development of ecopoetry through a program of free workshops, and a series of incisive essays by leading ecological writers.

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