Deadline: Friday 20 January 2012
The Strokestown International Poetry Prize
Prizes of €4,000 (currently approximately £3,500 sterling or $5,400 US dollars), €2,000 and €1000 for an unpublished poem in English not exceeding 70 lines. In addition the ten short-listed poets are invited to read a selection of their work at the festival for which they are paid a reading fee of €400 (approximately £350/ $540).
Duais Cholmcille / The Colmcille Poetry Prize
Prizes of €2,000 (currently approximately £2,800 sterling or $4,400 US dollars) €1,500 and €1000 for a poem in Irish or Scottish Gaelic, unpublished and not exceeding 70 lines. The six shortlisted poets are invited to read a selection of their work at the festival for which they are paid a reading fee of €400 (about £380 / $540).
The Percy French Prize
for witty - ideally topical - verse. Backhanders of €300, €100, €80 and various other sums in brown envelopes are passed under the table for witty verse in English, or with a translation if in Irish. Poems can be on any subject but they must be funny!
For postal entries each poem must be accompanied by a fee of €5 / £5 sterling / $5 US dollars.
For email entries paid with credit/debit card payments the fee per
poem is €6.
The judges'
shortlists will be announced in mid March, and the prizes will be
announced and awarded during the Strokestown International Poetry
Festival, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, which will take place over the weekend of
4-6 May 2012.
It is a condition of entry that short-listed competitors are prepared to attend the festival weekend and read a
selection of their work for a fee of
€400
including
travelling expenses. A list of the prize-winners will be posted up on
this website as soon as they are announced during the festival
weekend.
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