PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate Release - 28 June 2013
“iYeats Poetry Competition – Closing Date Wednesday 9th July”
The iYeats Poetry Competition, now in its fifth year has become one of the most highly-regarded in the country, attracting hundreds of entries from across Ireland and abroad. The online, national and international competition uses the internet to connect Sligo with poetry authors across the world. In 2013 the competition has appeared on websites and blogs in Germany, Belgium, Greece, Japan, New Zealand, Peru and more! The winner receives a prize of €500 plus a performance of their original work at ‘Aloud’ during the 54th Yeats International Summer School in Sligo this August.
The substantial prize, high calibre judges and connection with W.B. Yeats beloved Sligo, have garnered the competition global attention. Katie Donovan and James Harpur will be the competition judges in 2013. Previous judges have included Theo Dorgan and Paula Meehan (2012) Gerald Dawe & Enda Wyley (2011), Vincent Woods & Rita Ann Higgins (2010) and Niall MacMonagle & Mary Branley (2009). We await to see where this year’s iYeats poet will come from, Sligo, Ireland, Europe or further afield! The closing date for submitting an entry is Wednesday 9th July 2013. The winning poems will be published on the Hawk’s Well website.
2013 PRIZES
First Prize €500
Emerging Prize €300
Commended X2 €50
All winning poets will have their entries published on the Hawk’s Well Theatre Website and will be offered the chance to read their work at Aloud an intimate evening of original poetry from our eminent past judges and the 2013 winners. This ceremony will take place during the 2013 Yeats International Summer School.
2013 JUDGES
Katie Donovan
Katie Donovan was born in 1962 and spent her youth on a farm near Camolin in Co. Wexford. She has published four books of poetry and is currently working on a novel for children. Her poems have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies in Ireland, the UK and the US. She has given readings of her work in many venues in Ireland, England, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, the US and Canada. She has read her work on RTE Radio One and on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3. She qualified as an Amatsu practitioner (a form of Japanese osteopathy) and now combines this work with part-time lecturing in Creative Writing at IADT, Dun Laoghaire. She has two children, Phoebe and Felix.
James Harpur
James Harpur has had five poetry collections published by Anvil Press. His latest book, Angels and Harvesters (2012), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; The Dark Age (2007) won the Michael Hartnett Award; Oracle Bones (2001) was a Tablet Book of the Year; The Monk’s Dream (1996) includes the sonnet sequence that won the British National Poetry Competition; and A Vision of Comets (1993) was based on poems that won an Eric Gregory Award. Anvil have also published his Fortune’s Prisoner (2007), a translation of the poems of the Roman philosopher Boethius. He is poetry editor of the Temenos Academy Review.
www.jamesharpur.com
KEY DATES
Entry Opens: Yeats day: Wednesday 13th June, 2013
Closing Date for entries: Wednesday 9th July, 2013
Winners will be notified by Friday 22nd July, 2013
Results Publicly Announced: Wednesday 3rd August, 2013
Prize-giving ceremony ‘Aloud’: Wednesday 3rd August, 2013, 8pm.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
1. Only online entries will be accepted.
2. Files with entries must be in Word format and attached to the online entry form.
3. Payment must be made in Euros currency only. Please pay by online payment website PayPal. When prompted please send the payment to . In the title bar write ‘For iYeats Competition’ In the message box write your name and the title of the poem you are submitting.
Word Limit of 40 lines.
4. Multiple prizes may be awarded to the same person.
5. Poems must not have been published either in print or on a website, not be currently submitted or accepted for future publication. They must not previously have been awarded a prize in another competition.
6. The General category competition is open to all adults.
7. The emerging poet category is open to those aged between 16 and 25
8. The judges’ decision is final.
9. No correspondence will be entered into once work has been submitted.
10. Poems cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered.
11. Copyright remains with the authors, but we reserve the right to publish the winning poems. Copyright reverts to author after one year.
12. Multiple prizes may be awarded to the same person.
13. Your entry in the competition means you accept these rules.
Entry fee: €5 per poem or €12 for 3.
*The Hawk’s Well Theatre is a not-for-profit institution, an officially registered charity. All entry fees received in this competition will be disbursed in prize money and to fund the administration of the competition.
ENDS
For further information contact Deirdre Melvin, Marketing Manager, (Maternity Cover) Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo, 071 916 1518