Poetry Competition/Share in $625 Cash prizes/Postal Ent

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http://www.kspwriterscentre.com/poetry-competition

 Poetry Competition
Open to Australian residents and citizens only
 
Deadline
5.00pm AWST Friday 29 September 2017
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Categories
Adult KSP Poetry Awards
Youth KSP Poetry Awards (12 to 20 years)
Annette Cameron Encouragement Award
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* The Annette Cameron Encouragement Award is for WA-born or current WA residents over the age of 18 who have never published a full collection of poetry either in print or online. This award is sponsored by KSP-member and Poets@KSP member Flora Smith in memory of her cousin Annette Cameron, life-long friend of Katharine Susannah Prichard.
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Costs
YOUTH: Free
ADULT & ANNETTE CAMERON: 1 poem $10; 2 poems $15; 3 poems $20
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Line Counts
YOUTH: Max 50
ADULT: Max 50
ANNETTE CAMERON: Max 50
 
Theme
Open
 
How to Submit
Prepare a digital document using Arial size 12 font (one-sided)
Post to KSP before the deadline together with a signed and fully completed entry form
Place in an A4-sized (C4) envelope and address to:
KSP Poetry Awards, 11 Old York Road, Greenmount WA 6056
 
Prizes
*subject to discretion of judge*
First place certificates with $300 prize for open and $100 for youth
Second place certificates with $150 prize for open and $50 for youth
Annette Cameron Encouragement Award for an unpublished WA poet with $100 prize
Up to five commended certificates for both open and youth
Mundaring National Young Writers encourgement award for under 14s with $25 prize
All winning entries offered publication in Swan Magazine
Select entrants invited to read their story at KSP’s End of Year Awards Ceremony
 
Competition Judge: John Kinsella
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Australian John Kinsella has written over 20 books of poetry, as well as plays and fiction; he also maintains an active literary career as a teacher and editor. Kinsella’s poetry is both experimental and pastoral, featuring the landscape of Western Australia. Paul Kane observed in World Literature Today, “In Kinsella’s poetry these are lands marked by isolation and mundane violence and by a terrible transcendent beauty.” His The New Arcadia (2007) is a book-length exploration of Western Australia’s timeless and timeworn landscape; the book is informed by the history of the country and the bucolic poetic tradition. Kinsella’s recent books of poetry include Firebreaks (2016) and Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (2016).