2020 International Poetry Prize – Calling for Entries
The Caselberg Trust is calling for entries for the 2020 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition. Now in its 9th year, the Trust is delighted to announce that Dunedin’s finest book shop – the University Book Shop (www.unibooks.co.nz) is supporting the poetry prize again this year, and will also host our awards night again this year to coincide with the publication of Landfall 240 Spring 2020. Thank you to everyone at the University Book Shop for your ongoing support.
This year’s judge is Cilla McQueen
CILLA McQUEEN: Born in 1949, Cilla has lived in Te Waipounamu for most of her life. After formative years in Dunedin and some travel, she settled in Motupohue, Bluff, in 1996.
A poet, teacher and artist, her honours and awards include a Fulbright Visiting Writer's Fellowship, two terms of the Robert Burns Fellowship, a Goethe Institut Scholarship to Berlin, three New Zealand Book Awards (1983, 1989, 1991), Hon.LittD Otago 2008, and the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry 2010. She was named National Library New Zealand Poet Laureate 2009 -11.
In 2020 she was honoured with an MNZM for services as a poet.
The competition opens Monday 1 June and closes on Friday 31 July 2020. Entries are judged blind. First Prize is $500 (plus one-week stay at the Caselberg house at Broad Bay, Dunedin). Second Prize is $250; and there are up to 5 Highly-Commended awards (no monetary prizes).
The first- and second-placed poems will be published in the Spring issue of Landfall, and all winning and highly-commended entries will appear on the Caselberg Trust web-site (copyright remaining with the authors).
Entry fee: $20 for up to four poems from any one entrant. Payment may be made to any branch of the ANZ National Bank to the credit of the Caselberg Trust, a/c no. 06-0901-0353698-00, giving your name as the payer reference; or by cheque made out to ‘Caselberg Trust’, or in cash.
Note – entry fees must be paid prior to submitting your entry, and where payments are not received, poems will not be submitted for judging
Poems must be the original work of the entrant, previously unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere.
Poems must be no more than 40 lines in length.
Entries must be typewritten, and each poem should be laid out on a separate page (or separate word document if attached via email). Entries typed into the body of an email will not be accepted and will be returned to the author. Any style or subject will be considered.
The poet’s name must not appear on the typescript.
Entries may be submitted by e-mail to poetry@caselbergtrust.org or post to Caselberg Poetry Prize:
PO Box 71
Portobello
Dunedin 9048
NZ
Along with your entries, whether by e-mail or as hard copy, please provide your name and postal address and phone number, and your e-mail address (for receipt of your entry fee when this is received). If you have no e-mail address, and you want receipt of entry please send a stamped addressed envelope.
No entries received after Friday 31 July 2020 will be considered.
Winners only will be notified of their success. A copy of the Judge’s report will be posted on the Caselberg Trust website www.caselbergtrust.org, and as always, the Judge’s decisions will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into.