Straid Poetry Collection Award 2012
Three overall winners offered full publication contracts
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The second Straid Poetry Collection Award offers three poets writing in English the opportunity to have their work published as full collections by Templar Poetry. Submissions of full collections are invited from both previously published and unpublished authors writing in English and residing anywhere in the world.
Templar publishes excellent poetry and is committed to developing new audiences for poetry through innovation, the superb design and print quality of its titles and the support we offer authors in developing a readership for their work. The Straid Poetry Collection Award adds diversity to the range of poets and poetry we publish. The three winners of the inaugural award will have their collections published in November this year at the Derwent Poetry Festival.
Individual poems and poetry submitted may have been published previously and may be submitted simultaneously for consideration elsewhere, subject to the conditions detailed in the Straid Collection Award Rules and Conditions. The work submitted must not have been published previously as a full collection anywhere in the world or part published in pamphlet or chapbook format. Translated work is not eligible for submission.
The Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Awards 2012
Three winners offered full publication contracts
Closing date: 7th May 2012
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The poetry submitted may have been published previously and may be submitted simultaneously for consideration elsewhere, subject to the conditions detailed in the Award Rules and Conditions. Three overall winners will be chosen by the Judge, Alex McMillen, and their submissions will be published as individual perfect bound Pamphlets.
Each of the three winners will receive prize of £250 and will be invited to launch their short collection with a reading at the 2012 Derwent Poetry Festival. The winners will also be invited to submit an additional more extensive manuscript for later publication as a full collection.
Up to thirty of the best long listed poets will be invited to have selected poems published in the annual anthology, Octopus, simultaneously with the winning pamphlets. In addition ALL writers submitting work receive a complimentary copy of the anthology in December.
Both Pamphlet and Anthology poets, along with one guest, will enjoy free access to all Festival live events. The full Awards results will be posted on the Templar Poetry website in late August along with full details of the Derwent Poetry Festival Programme.
Templar Poetry may commission full collections from anthology poets as well as from the three winning pamphlet poets.
