Entries must be received by 31st May 2012
The New Zealand Poetry Society’s annual International Poetry
Competition, Verse and Haiku, is under way, with Open and Junior Sections. The
Junior Open and Junior Haiku sections are open to students who are 17 years of
age or younger on 31st May 2012. Please visit our website at www.poetrysociety.org.nz for full
competition details and to download the entry forms. Last year’s results,
including winning poems and judges’ reports, are also on the website.
Prizes:
Open: 1st - $500; 2nd - $250; 3rd
- $100
Open Junior: 1st - $200
Primary/Intermediate:
1st runner-up - $100; 2nd runner-up - $50
Secondary:
1st runner-up - $100; 2nd runner-up - $50
Haiku: Top five haiku - $100 each, plus First Prize
Winner receives the Jeanette Stace Memorial Prize of $150.
Haiku Junior: 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
Primary/Intermediate - $50 each
1st 2nd, 3rd,
Secondary - $50 each
In addition, the writer of the haiku considered the best of
the two sections receives the Jeanette Stace Memorial Prize of $100.
All prizes
are in New Zealand Dollars. No entrant will win more than one cash prize,
though winners may also be included in a commended list.
All winning and commended poems, along with other selected
entries, will appear in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s annual anthology in
November 2011, to be edited by Owen Bullock (Katikati). It is not necessary to
buy a copy of the anthology in order to have a poem included. All selections
are made blind (i.e. without identifying information).
This year’s judges are:
Harry Ricketts (Wellington
Barbara Strang (Christchurch
Bernadette Hall (Canterbury
Vanessa Proctor (Sydney ,
Australia
We gratefully acknowledge Community Post
for their generous support: www.nzpost.co.nz
Further enquiries can be directed to :
Laurice Gilbert
The Competition Secretary
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