Here's a poetry competition that hasn't received much publicity this year. The less publicity, the fewer entries so statistically, the greater chance of YOU winning!
Deadline: 23rd October 2007
Entry Fee: 10 Euro per poem, 3 for 20 Euro. Other currencies on website.
Judge: Cathal Ó Searcaigh plus 2 unnamed
Rules: Not previously published nor have won any competition. Anonymous.
Prizes: 1st 4,000 Euro,
2nd : Set of 10 Framed Embroidered Poems Signed by Cathal Ó Searcaigh Valued €750
3rd : Donegal Derryveagh hand cut crystal valued €500
4th : Maggie Dans handmade Gaelic Pottery valued €250
and 6 certificates of merit.
The only prize worth here is 1st. The rest I'd pay not to have.
6 comments:
Hi, where can I get a copy of the story you had published recently, I'd like to read it! Is it online anywhere or somewhere on the blog?
Hi Terrence, It's not available online. The Sunday Tribune don't seem to put it on their website and I am reluctant to post it myself for fear of stealing. I don't if that's paranoid of me but you don't often see stories online.
No probs, best of luck with the other projects you have going on anyway. Perhaps I'll be able to pick up your first published collection some day!
Here are the results.
Results of 5th Smurfit Samhain International Poetry Competition 2007
The judges decided that there was not an overall winner and have distributed the prizes to the following poems;
Translation
Spanish to English
By Lidia B. Galvan (Spanish)
THE MEN’S CLINIC
Owen Gallagher (Scots/Irish)
HAIKU
By Jamie Edgecombe (English)
ANNIVERSARY
By Kathryn Daily (USA)
SOUND POEM
Dustbin Town
By Gustavo Barbosa ( Brazilian)
MARKET DAY
By Penelope Thoms (USA)
GAELIC POEM
Michael Davitt
In memoriam
By Rita Kelly (Irish)
http://www.samhainpoetry.com/front.htm
I won the haiku section, as you can see in the list above, but they NEVER SENT ME ANY PRIZE MONEY OR ANYTHING. They emailed me to tell me I had won 250 euros; then, again two months later saying they had got my address wrong or something...Five months later and NADA...NOTHING...one starts to speculate about competitions like this, when you win...but actually win nothing at all!
Jamie Edgecombe
That's a bit worrying, all right. Have you tried to give them a call? If that doesn't work, I suggest you contact poetry Ireland or the Irish Writers Centre both of which I think publicised it.
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