academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition ... - Literature Wales

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