Proudly
supported by The Divine Muses Poetry Reading and Penguin Random House New
Zealand, the Emerging Poets Competition is now in its 4th year.
The
competition enables writers who have to achieve that all important first publication
to gain success and exposure. Our previous winners, including poet, editor and
blogger, Elizabeth Welsh and poet and book reviewer, Elizabeth Morton, have
gone on to achieve publication success in NZ literary journals. In 2015, our judge
is poet and novelist, Rosetta Allan, a former competition runner up.
About
the competition:
Closing
Date: 7th August 2015
Results
announced at Divine Muses Poetry Reading on National Poetry Day 2015, 28th
August 2015
First Prize: $200 worth of
Penguin Random House NZ books
Second Prize: $100 worth of
Penguin Random House NZ books
Notice of the 2015 Emerging
Poets Competition rules and entry form are available at: http://www.artagent.co.nz/poetry/poetry.htm
About our judge:
Rosetta Allan’s
books include the poetry collections, Little Rock (2007) and Over
Lunch (2010), and her debut novel Purgatory (Penguin Random House NZ, 2014). Her poetry and essays have
appeared in publications and anthologies in New Zealand, Australia and the USA,
and in online literary journals, including most recently the essay Dear
Mother, songs of the Kamikaze, released in The Griffith Review #48. She is
the co-winner of the IWW Kathleen Grattan Best Sequence of Poetry 2010 and
Metonomy’s Best Poem 2010, and was runner up in the 2013 Emerging Poets
Competition.
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