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| Pamphlet and Collection Competition 2008 |
| The Competition THE 2008 COMPETITION IS CLOSED AND WINNERS AND ANTHOLOGY POETS HAVE ALL BEEN NOTIFIED. THE RESULTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING POSTED TO ALL WRITERS WHO SUBMITTED A SELF ADDRESSED ENVELOPE. PLEASE e-mail info@templarpoetry.co.uk IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF THE RESULTS. THE AWARDS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE DERWENT POETRY FESTIVAL IN OCTOBER (17th-19th) AT MASSON MILLS, MATLOCK BATH, DERBYSHIRE. This is an Open Poetry competition offering contemporary poets the opportunity to have their work published in both short pamphlet and collection formats. A selection of the best individual poems will also be published alongside the winning pamphlets. The Awards event will open the 2008 Derwent Poetry Festival in Derbyshire, held in late October and will offer readings to the pamphlet and anthology poets. Poets writing in English are invited to submit short collections of poetry ranging from 18 to 24 pages of A4 containing up to 40 typewritten lines per page. The poems submitted may have been published previously, but not as a pamphlet or as part of a full collection. Three overall winners will be chosen by the Judge, Jane Weir, and these submissions will be published as individual perfect bound Pamphlets. The three winning poets will have an option to record a selection of poems from their work as part of an audio CD which will be published after the Derwent Poetry Festival 2008. The three winners will also be invited to submit an additional more extensive manuscript for later publication as a full collection. This additional submission must be made within six weeks of the results being formally announced at the Derwent Poetry Festival. Subject to the judgement of the Templar Poetry Editorial team, these writers will be offered the opportunity to publish their submissions as a full collection. Up to three collections may be published from these submissions. Forty to fifty of the best individual poems submitted selected from all submissions will be published in the competition anthology simultaneously with the winning pamphlets. Three overall competition winners will each receive a £500 cash prize, royalties on sales of their pamphlet and fifty complimentary copies of their pamphlet. Poets whose work is published in the competition anthology will receive ten complimentary copies. In addition ALL writers submitting work receive a complimentary copy of the anthology (RRP £8) in late October. The three winners and all anthology poets are invited to read at the Derwent Poetry Festival 2008 and will also have complimentary access to all Festival events. Competition results will be posted on the Templar Poetry website in August along with details of the Derwent Poetry Festival Programme. |
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The Judge
Jane Weir
Jane Weir has published two collections of poetry - The Way I Dressed During the Revolution (2005)
and Before Playing Romeo (2007). Her first collection was shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New
Writers Award 2006 and her poems have been published in Faber and Picador Anthologies, The
Forward Book of Poetry and magazines. She is currently completing a collection on the 20th Century
handblock print textile designers Barron and Larcher.
Jane Weir
Jane Weir has published two collections of poetry - The Way I Dressed During the Revolution (2005)
and Before Playing Romeo (2007). Her first collection was shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New
Writers Award 2006 and her poems have been published in Faber and Picador Anthologies, The
Forward Book of Poetry and magazines. She is currently completing a collection on the 20th Century
handblock print textile designers Barron and Larcher.