Annual W B Yeats poetry prize/Win $500 Cash/RUP

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http://www.wbyeatspoetryprize.com/

Annual W B Yeats poetry prize
for Australia
The Annual W B Yeats Poetry Prize is open to residents of Australia for previously unpublished poems. Details of Prize below
 

Now accepting entries for the
 2016 Yeats Prize.
Closing date March 31 2017
 
First Prize AU $500. 00
Award Certificate
Second Prize AU $75. 00
Third Prize $75. 00
Award Certificates
Commendation Certificates 
RULES
My central area of interest in poetry in English, especially contemporary and modern poetry. Other areas of expertise include nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary American literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Australian literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Canadian literature. - See more at: http://corner.acu.edu.au/research_supervision/framework/browse.php?srperid=126#sthash.0rp8dO1W.dpuf
# 50 line maximum limit
 # NO  identification of author anywhere on the poem
# Open style
# Where entries are submitted by snail mail:
to be typed on one side of A4 paper with three (3) copies provided.
# Name, address and contact details on a separate page.
Entries submitted as an email message, will not be accepted
 
# Entries may be submitted via email as an attachment
in a Word doc  or PDF document to:
   info@wbyeatspoetryprize.com
 
Entry Fee for first or sole entry  $8. 50  (Paypal click here)
Entry fee for each additional poem $5. 50
 
Please include your name and address in submission message.
 
P.S. If you discover any errors on the web site, please send an email. W B Yeats was a notoriously poor speller.  He was human, as we all are:)
 
2016 Judges are

  Dr Matthew Ryan

Catholic University of Melbourne

& Dr Sarah Dowling

 

area of interest in poetry in English, especially contemporary and modern poetry. Other areas of expertise include nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary American literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Australian literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Canadian literature. - See more at: http://corner.acu.edu.au/research_supervision/framework/browse.php?srperid=126#sthash.0rp8dO1W.dpufy central area of interest in poetry in English, especially contemporary and modern poetry. Other areas of expertise include nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary American literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Australian literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Canadian literature. - See more at: http://corner.acu.edu.au/research_supervision/framework/browse.php?srperid=126#sthash.0rp8dO1W.dpufy central area of interest in poetry in English, especially contemporary and modern poetry. Other areas of expertise include nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary American literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Australian literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Canadian literature. - See more at: http://corner.acu.edu.au/research_supervision/framework/browse.php?srperid=126#sthash.0rp8dO1W.dpuf
 Entry fee for first

Poem is $8. 50.

Additional poems are $5. 50 per each additional poem.

 

If you wish to make a small donation towards the running of the

W B Yeats Poetry Prize it would be  appreciated.

Cheques/Postal Orders to be made payable to

"The W B Yeats Poetry Prize"

 

Post entries to:

W B Yeats Poetry Prize

6 Samuel Close

Berwick, Victoria 3806

 

  Entrants providing an Email address will receive notification of the results by email.

The W B Yeats Poetry Prize reserves the right to publish the Winning and Commended poems in a printed report and/or on this website.

Copyright remains with poet.

For further information please send email to:

info@wbyeatspoetryprize.com

or

declanfoley2@gmail.com

 Poetry Competition Convener

Declan J Foley