https://br4r.org.au/poetry-comp/Seeking Asylum Poetry Prize
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Closing date : Sunday 14th August, 2022
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Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize 2022
in memory of Louise Griffiths – a past member of BR4R
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The 2022 BR4R Seeking Asylum Poetry Prize
A Turning Point
Proudly supported by the journal Social Alternatives
The BR4R 2021 Seeking Asylum Poetry Prize is now open
Closing date: Sunday 14th August 2022
Ballina Region for Refugees (BR4R) invites you to submit up to three poems to this year’s Seeking Asylum Poetry Prize.
The BR4R Seeking Asylum Poetry Prize celebrates the positive contributions that refugees make to our communities. It acknowledges the circumstances that forced them to flee their homelands and request refuge in Australia.
This year’s Seeking Asylum Poetry Prize theme is ‘A Turning Point’.We welcome poems, from anyone in the community, that consider the experiences, aspirations and hopes of refugees and asylum seekers who are seeking a home in which they can build new, meaningful and safe lives. Poems from refugees and asylum seekers themselves are especially welcome.
The 2022 BR4R Seeking Asylum Poetry Prize celebrates refugees and asylum seekers reaching significant turning points in their lives. The Seeking Asylum Poetry Prize acknowledges that refugees and asylum seekers have encountered important turning points throughout their journeys to safety, from the moment they decided to flee their home, through the many turning points they navigate during their journey across a dangerous world, until the time they become established in their new country, community and home. The Poetry Prize especially celebrates the point at which refugees and asylum seekers can settle in a new community and renew their lives after years of uncertainty.
You are invited to send in up to three poems of up to 50 lines each.
Entry is free and is open to anyone living in Australia.
BR4R especially welcomes poems from refugees and those seeking asylum in Australia.
The poems will be judged by poet Juan Garrido-Salgado.
Juan is a poet, translator and human rights activist. He immigrated to Australia from Chile in 1990, fleeing the regime that burned his poetry and imprisoned and tortured him for his political activism. He has published eight books of poetry, and his poems have been widely translated.
Cash prizes will be awarded to first, second, and third place winners.
First-place prize is $300,
Second-place prize is $150
Third-place prize is $50.
Winning entries and selected runners-up will be published on the BR4R web site and in Social Alternatives, a print journal that analyses, critiques and reviews social issues and problems, and seeks to generate insight, knowledge, and understanding of our world. The journal is committed to social justice and stimulating social alternatives to current conditions. You can find more about the journal at Social Alternatives.
The Seeking Asylum Poetry Prize was established in 2019
in memory of Louise Griffiths, a past member of BR4R.
Who can enter?
• Entry is free and open to anyone living in Australia.
• BR4R especially welcomes poems from refugees and those seeking asylum in Australia.
What can be entered?
• You may submit up to three poems on the theme of ‘A Turning Point’.
• Your poem or poems should be your own work, but have no be previously published.
• Each poem should be no more than 50 lines.
• Poems should be mostly in English. You can use words in other languages, but the judge
must be able to understand the poem.
How to enter
• Download the entry form from the BR4R website, complete your answers, and copy and
paste your poem or poems onto the entry form.
• Email your entry to
poetryprize@br4r.org.au.
• Entries can be sent in until the closing date of Sunday 14th August 2022.
The prize
• The first-place winning entry will receive a $300 prize, the second-place entry a $150
prize, and the third-place entry a $50 prize.
• BR4R may decide to award additional prizes.
• The three winning poems and some runners-up will be published on the BR4R website and
social media pages, in other places to raise awareness of issues facing refugees, and in the
print journal Social Alternatives. Important: By entering you are agreeing to us publishing
your work.
• The judging is anonymous.
• The winners will be notified by email before September 30th 2022.
Privacy
• Personal information provided to BR4R is only used to run the Poetry Prize and notify the
winner. Personal information will be kept strictly confidential, and will not be sold, reused,
rented, loaned or otherwise disclosed to a third party
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