Deadline: 7 January 2012
Open to: Young people under 30 years of age
Prizes: 500 euro
Description
International Poetry Competition Castello Di Duino is opening a call for applicants.
The theme of the 8th Edition- 2012 is Mirror /Masks.
It is possible to participate in one or both of the following sections:
I. SECTION FOR UNPUBLISHED POEMS
- Participants have to send only one unpublished , never prized poem (maximum 50 lines).
- Poems will be accepted in the mother tongue of the authors. A translation into English or French and /or Italian is required.
- A jury composed by poets and literary critics with different linguistic competences will evaluate the poems as much as possible in their original language.
- Poems must arrive before January 7th 2012
You can send it:
a) preferably by E-Mail to valeragruber@alice.it.
You have to send the complete Application Form in the message and the poem attached to the message in Format word or rft.
b) or by regular mail to Prof. Gabriella Valera Gruber, Via Matteotti 21, 34138, Trieste (Italy). As far as the deadline is concerned, we will take into consideration the postmark, but no poem will be taken into consideration, which arrives after the jury has started its evaluation process (soon after the deadline)
Prizes:
- First, Second and Third Prize: € 500. In accordance with the aim of the competition to combine solidarity and poetry, the winners will choose a humanitarian cause to which they will devote a part of the prize (€200).
- Medal of the President of Italian Republic for a poem with a particular social-humanitarian value
- “Sergio Penco” Plate for the better poem “under 16”
- Cups or other minor prizes for other noteworthy poems.
The poems of the winners and a selection of the best poems will be published for free by “Ibiskos Publishing House Risolo” (Empoli, Italy), in both the Italian and English version together with a CD in the original languages. The proceeds of the sales will be devoted to Luchetta-Ota-D’Angelo-Hrovatin Foundation for children war victims.
- Minor prizes for noteworthy poems of young “poets” under 16th.
II. Section Theater : Monologue or Dialogue between 2 people.
1 unpublished and never prized Dramatic Work (Monologue or Dialogue between 2 people), max 5 pages (10000 characters).
A good translation into Italian is unconditionally required. The works will not evaluated in their original language but only in their Italian translation.
- Works must arrive before January 7th 2012
a) preferably by E-Mail to valeragruber@alice.it.
You have to send the complete Application Form in the message and the work attached to the message in Format word or rft.
b) or by regular mail to Prof. Gabriella Valera Gruber, Via Matteotti 21, 34138, Trieste (Italy). As far as the deadline is concerned, we will take into consideration the postmark, but no work will be taken into consideration, which arrives after the jury has started its evaluation process (soon after the deadline).
Prizes:
The jury will designate three winners (who will awarded with cups and plates) and reserves the right of selecting other dramas of special worth.
The best dramas will be performed in city Theater the day of the Prize-giving Ceremony.
Special Rules for Schools
The jury will designate the best Poetry-Projects presented as collective works by Schools (students and teachers):
- 1st prize 500 euro, that have to be devoted to an humanitarian scope chosen by the awarded students and teachers
- other minor prizes.
Projects must be sent 3 copies by regular mail to Prof. Gabriella Valera Gruber, Via Matteotti 21, 34138, Trieste (Italy). As far as the deadline is concerned, we will take into consideration the postmark, but no project will be taken into consideration, which arrives after the jury has started its evaluation process (soon after the deadline)
Also there is the possibility of sending the application and work by E-Mail to valeragruber@alice.it.
Eligibility
The competition is open to young people under 30 years of age.
Application
You can apply for the competition by filling the application form found on the bottom of the page, attaching your work and sending it by e-mail to valeragruber@alice.it, or by regular mail to Prof. Gabriella Valera Gruber, Via Matteotti 21, 34138, Trieste (Italy).
There is no participation fee.
Deadline for application is 7 January 2012.