academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition ... - Literature Wales

Want to find out more?Come and join us!Keep in touch with the writing scene in Wales and beyond.Join the Academi as an Associate Member and receive anexciting range of benefits including:• Advance information on literary events, activities andpublications• A470, Academi’s lively magazine, delivered to your doorfour times a year• Discounted subscription to New Welsh Review, Wales’leading literary quarterly in English• 10% discount on admission to all Academi and Academisupportedevents• Priority booking for Academi-hosted events• Free advice for writers and much more(Benefits correct at time of leaflet publication)To join as an Associate Memberplease complete the form below:SurnameForenameOrganisation (if applicable)AddressCounty / StatePostcode/Zip CodePhoneE-mailCountry■ I enclose a cheque for £15.00 (waged)■ I enclose a cheque for £7.50 (unwaged)Cheques made payable to AcademiOr please charge my credit card /debit card■ Visa (credit) ■ Visa (debit) ■ Mastercard■ Switch ■ Maestro ■ Solo ■ Electron■ £15.00 (waged)■ £7.50 (unwaged)Card Number ■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■Start Date ■■/■■ Expiry Date ■■/■■3 Digit Security Code ■■■Issue Number (if applicable) ■■■Name on CardPlease send completed form and cheque to:Academi, P.O. Box 438, Cardiff CF10 5YA, Wales, UKConditions Of EntryENTRY1. Each poem must be no more than 50 lines in length and entered on white A4 paper.2. Each poem must be typed or clearly written on one side of the paper only.3. Please enclose 2 copies of each poem.4. No covering letter or other material should be enclosed with your entry.5. No alterations can be made to a poem once it has been submitted.6. The entrant may submit an unlimited number of poems, each to be accompaniedby a £6.00 entry fee. We can only accept pound sterling (GBP) and regret thatmonies in other currencies will be returned.7. Cheques and postal orders should be made payable to Academi.8. Please check that you have used the correct postage when sending in your entry.9. The poem(s) and payment should be firmly attached to the entry form with apaperclip. Please do not staple. The name of the entrant must not appear on thepoem itself.10. Once entered, poems cannot be withdrawn from the competition. It is regrettedthat no entries can be returned.11. All winners will be requested to provide a biography and photograph and take partin any publicity surrounding the competition.12. Acknowledgement of receipt of poems will only be given if a stamped, selfaddressedenvelope marked ACKNOWLEDGEMENT is enclosed.ELIGIBILITY13. Entries will be accepted from writers of any nationality and from any countryprovided that:(i) they are in English(ii) they have not previously been published in any form (including appearing onthe internet)(iii) the author is living(iv) they are not translations of another author’s work14. Entries may be in any style and on any subject.15. Entries should not be submitted into other competitions or for publicationelsewhere while the 2011 Cardiff International Poetry Competition is running.16. Employees of Yr Academi Gymreig (the Academi) and members of the Academi’sCommittees and Management Board and their immediate families are not eligibleto enter.THE JUDGING17. Winners of the Cardiff International Poetry Competition will be decided by judgesDon Paterson and Philip Gross and a filter judge. Their decision is final and nocorrespondence can be entered into regarding that decision. The organisersreserve the right to change the judges if circumstances dictate.18. The competition is open until Friday 25 March 2011. All entries must reach us bythis date. Date of announcement of winners will be posted on the Academi websitewww.academi.org19. Competitors who want to receive a printed list of prize-winners must enclose aseparate stamped, self-addressed envelope marked PRIZEWINNERS. This list willalso be posted on the Academi's website www.academi.org as soon as practicableafter the winning announcement.20. It is expected that winning poems will be published in a leading literary journal.Winning poems from previous competitions can also be read on the Academiwebsite - www.academi.orgCOPYRIGHT21. Copyright will remain with the competitor, but the Academi reserves the right toarrange the first publication or broadcast of selected poems as it sees fit. Submissionof a poem implies the competitor’s acceptance of the conditions set out above.22. Copyright on the content and form of these rules is held by Academi.The closing date for the competition is Friday 25 March 2011Academi (Yr Academi Gymreig / The Welsh Academy) is the Welsh NationalLiterature Promotion Agency and Society for Authors. Academi works in partnershipwith Tŷ Newydd Writers’ Centre. The Cardiff International Poetry Competition issupported by Cardiff Council.Academi Chief Executive: Peter FinchDesign: www.yogicreative.comacademiCardiff InternationalPoetry Competition1st Prize £50002011

About The CompetitionThe Academi Cardiff International PoetryCompetition offers one of the largest monetaryprizes for a poetry competition of its kind. Firstprize is £5000. Additional prizes are £500 forsecond place, £250 for third and five runnersupreceive £50 each. All entries to thecompetition will be judged anonymously, sothis is a great opportunity to have your poetryjudged on its own merits.If you need further information or someencouragement, please visit our websitewww.academi.org/cipc/ where you will findwinning poems from previous years and hintsand tips on entering. You have until Friday 25March 2011 to write your prize-winning poemand give yourself a shot at £5000, publication,publicity and a real feeling of achievement. Theprize-winners will be announced on the Academiwebsite during summer 2011.Recent competition winners include:Elizabeth Kay (Surrey), Victor Tapner (Essex),Tiffany Atkinson (Aberystwyth), Emma Jones(Sydney), Anne-Marie Fyfe (London), LindaRogers (Canada), John Goodby (Swansea),Colette Bryce (Newcastle Upon Tyne), Rose Flint(Wiltshire), Jane Routh (Lancaster) and GilesGoodland (London).The JudgesDon PatersonDon Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland.He has published numerous collections ofpoetry including Nil Nil (Faber and Faber, 1993),God’s Gift to Women (Faber and Faber, 1997),Landing Light (Faber and Faber, 2003; Graywolf,2004), and Rain (Faber and Faber, 2009; Farrar,Straus and Giroux, 2010).His poetry has won a number of awards, including theForward Prize for Best First Collection, the Whitbread PoetryPrize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, and the T S EliotPrize on two occasions. Most recently, Rain won the 2009Forward Prize. Don is a Fellow of the Royal Society ofLiterature and a Fellow of the English Association; he receivedthe OBE in 2008 and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in2010. He now teaches poetry at the University of St Andrewsand since 1996 has been poetry editor at Picador.Philip GrossPhilip Gross lives in Penarth, south Wales, andis Professor of Creative Writing at GlamorganUniversity. He is a poet and writer of thoughtprovokingfiction for young people, sciencefiction, haiku, schools opera libretti, plays andradio short stories.His poetry, up to and including the Whitbread Prize shortlistedThe Wasting Game, is collected in Changes of Address (2001).Bloodaxe has since published three more collections, thelatest of which, The Water Table (2009) won the T S Eliot Prize.I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon, 2009), with photographs bySimon Denison, was the English-language winner of WalesBook of the Year 2010. Philip’s children’s poetry includesThe All-Nite Café (Faber and Faber, 1993) which won the SignalAward, and Off Road to Everywhere (Salt, 2010), a PBSChildren’s Poetry Bookshelf choice.©Murdo McLeod ©Stephen MorrisEntry FormSurnameForenameAddressCounty / StatePostcode / ZIP CodeCountryPhoneE-mailI enclose ____ poem(s) @ £6.00 each and £____ payment bycheque / postal order in sterling (GBP) and made payable toAcademiORPlease charge my credit card / debit card:■ Visa (credit) ■ Visa (debit) ■ Mastercard■ Switch ■ Maestro ■ Solo ■ ElectronCard Number ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Start Date ■■/■■Expiry Date ■■/■■3 Digit Security Code ■■■Issue Number (if applicable) ■■■Name on CardI enclose the following poems:Titles 123456Where did you get this entry form?Please attach this form to your poems and payment andsend to:Academi, Cardiff International Poetry Competition 2011,P.O. Box 438, Cardiff, CF10 5YA, Wales, UKClosing date: Friday 25 March 2011