The Strokestown International Poetry Prizes 2011
The competitions are now open - closing date January 24th 2011
Dear poets,The 2011 poetry competitions have now been launched, and we greatly look forward to receiving your entries. The Strokestown competitions offer more than €15,000 in prizes and are some of the most prestigious in the English and Irish/Gaelic speaking world. Not only do all the judges in each category read ALL the poems (there is no filtering committee), but we also invite the shortlisted poets in each category to read a selection of their work at the Strokestown International Poetry Festival in May for which we pay them a reading fee of €400.
The Strokestown International Poetry Prize
Once again we have an exceptional line-up of judges for 2011. Not only are they all distinguished poets themselves but also accomplished at the task of evaluating the work of others - as commissioning editors, literary critics or tutors. Geographically their range is equally wide - they read and lecture in Ireland, the UK and America. Peter Fallon runs Gallery Press, one of Ireland's most venerable and prestigious poetry publishing houses; James Harpur has taught at the Arvon Foundation and elsewhere, and has four collections published by Anvil; Mary O'Donohue's poetry has been published by both Salmon Poetry and Dedalus Press and teaches creative writing in Boston, USA. More...
The first prize has now been won by American poets two years running... Let's see if Ireland and the UK can't pip them to the post this time. Enter now! Click on the links in the left hand margin...Duais Cholmcille / The Colmcille Strokestown Prize for poetry in Irish or Scots Gaelic
The 2010 competition brought together in Strokestown some of the most illustrious names in contemporary Irish and Scots Gaelic poetry, and the opportunity to hear both together and to compare and learn from the idioms of both varieties of the language was deemed one of the most enjoyable parts of the festival weekend. (The readings were also packed with, and hugely enjoyed by, English monoglots!) In 2011 Colm Breathnach and Aonghas Macneacail will adjudicate, both poets reading all the entries and coming to a joint decision. Entries close on 24 January 2011, and to enter click on the links in the left hand margin...● Read the poems shortlisted in 2010 here...
● Think you can do better? Enter the 2011 competition! It closes on 24 January 2011The Percy French Prize -
Poets shortlisted for the Percy French Prize attended the Strokestown International Poetry Festival and read their shortlisted poem on the night - when the adjudicator announced and awarded the prizes. Can you be funnier? Enter the 2011 competition now - click on the links at the top of the left hand margin.Merrily Harpur
Director
Strokestown International Poetry Festival
Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, Ireland.
www.strokestownpoetry.org
071 9633690 / 071 9633759
