The Magma Poetry Competition Awards will take place on Monday 18th
February 2013 at a celebratory event at RADA’s Studio Theatre, RADA
Studios, 16 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EX, a few minutes’ walk from
Goodge Street Underground Station. Doors open at 6.30 pm (pay bar),
reading at 7.30pm until 9.pm
You are invited to this free reading!
Organisers are delighted that
distinguished poet Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales, will be doing
a reading of her poems as well as awarding 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes to
the winners of the Magma Judge’s Prize for poems of 11-80 lines.
A Panel of Magma Editors will award 1st and 2nd prizes and 10
special mentions to the winners of the Magma Editors’ Prize for poems of
up to 10 lines. Four specially commissioned poets, Moniza Alvi, Simon
Barraclough, Tom Chivers and Claire Crowther, will each read a 10-line
poem written by them for the occasion to honour the short poem.
And all the prize winners will be invited to read their poems.
Do
come along to the reading on the evening of Monday 18th February – it
will start at 7.30pm. and finish by 9pm. Come early for the best
seats, the bar will be open from 6.30pm. where you can buy drinks.
Copies of Magma 55 which will include the winning poems will be on sale,
but entry to the reading is free.
The winning poems will be published in Magma 55, which will be on sale at the event.
For further information, please contact Magma Poetry directly at www.magmapoetry.com.
Source: Magma Poetry Newsletter
Hello Poets,
There are three days left to enter Magma’s poetry competition
Three days to send through your best poems of 11 to 80 lines for Gillian Clarke for the Judge’s Prize.
Three days to send through your best poems of 10 lines or fewer for the Editors’ Prize.
£1,600 of prize money will be shared by 15 winners.
All 15 winners will be published in Magma 55 in 2013.
All 15 winners can read at the Competition Celebration Reading on 18th February 2013.
Closing date 16th December 2012.
Full details can be found here http://magmapoetry.com/competition
Good luck!
Magma Poetry, Registered Office: 23 Pine Walk, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 4ES, UK.
From Magma Poetry.
Following the launch of the Magma Poetry Competition in 2011, Magma Poetry is delighted to announce that the competition will now run each year.
This year's competition will open for entries on 16th October 2012, and as before the competition will have two contests.
The Judge's Prize is for a poem of 11 to 80 lines. All poem entries of 11 to 80 lines will be entered for the Judges Prize which this year will be judged by award-winning poet Gillian Clarke.
The First Prize £500
Second Prize £200
Third Prize £100
The Editors' Prize celebrates the short poem and is open to poems of up to 10 lines. The Magma Editors' Prize reflects the magazine's unique rotating editorship and poems of up to 10 lines will be judged by a panel of Magma Editors who will select a variety of poems for 'special mentions' as well as choosing first and second prize winners.
First prize £500
Second Prize £200
plus 10 Special Mentions £10 each.
As part of the prize, all 15 winners will have their poems published in our Spring Issue 2013 and be invited to read alongside Gillian Clarke at Magma's prize-giving event early next year.
Here are some details: The entry period for poems opens on 16 October 2012 and closes on 16th December 2012. Entry fee is £5 per poem or £15 for four poems, except for Magma Poetry magazine subscribers who pay £3 per poem or £10 for four poems.
Full Rules are here, and information will be found on Magma's website at www.magmapoetry.com/competition.
Magma is excited that its competition is now an annual event and the team on the Editors' Panel is looking forward to reading your 10-line poems, as well as receiving your poems of 11 to 80 lines for the Judge's Prizes. The entry period does not open until 16th October, so plenty of time for the poets among you to get some great poems written.
For further information please contact Magma directly at news@magmapoetry.com.
