The Brunel International African Poetry Prize| $3,000 Cash Prize– Pawners Paper

The Brunel International African Poetry Prize is a major annual poetry prize of £3000, aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry f

The Brunel International African Poetry Prize

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The Brunel International African Poetry Prize is a major annual poetry prize of £3000, aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa. The Prize is sponsored by Brunel University London.

Prize: $3,000 and publication

Eligibility/ Requirements

Interested applicants are advised to follow strictly the requirement and submission guidelines.

• The Brunel lnternational African Poetry Prize is open to poets who were born in Africa, or who are nationals of an African country, or whose parents are African.

•  It is for ten poems exactly in order to encourage serious poets. These poems may, however, have already been published. 
• Only poets who have not yet had a full-length poetry book published are eligible. 
• Poets who have self-published poetry books or had chapbooks and pamphlets published are allowed to submit for this prize.
• Only poems written in English are accepted. Poems translated into English are also accepted with a percentage of the prize going to the translator.The poems may have been previously published or won previous awards.
• An acknowledgement will be sent. (Please note that email enquiries about the rules will not be answered.)
•  Under no circumstances can alterations be made to poems once entered.
• Under no circumstances will the organisers or judges enter into discussions with entrants who have submitted for the prize.
• The prize organisers reserve the right to not award the prize if, in the judges’ opinion, such an action is justified. 
The organisers also reserve the right to split the prize if they decide that more than one poet is worthy of it.
•  The judges’ decision is final and they will not enter into any correspondence with entrants regarding their decisions.

Submission Guidelines

•  Poems must be the original work of the entrant.
•  Each poem must have a title or a number and should be single spaced.
• There is no stipulation regarding font type and size.
•  Poems must be emailed in a SINGLE Word document attachment (not PDF) – with an index cover page that contains the entrants’ name, nationality, country of birth, full address including country of permanent residence, personal email address and telephone number.
• The submission document must be name of the poet, not the name of the prize.

Check these out:

• "Detached" a poem by Adedeji Adebusuyi
• "Here They Come" a poem by Iyiakimo Kizito
• Writers Magazine Fall Short Story Contest

• Marcus Jones' Ninety Nine Percent In Tent adn other four poems
• The entire submission must be in black ink, no colours.
•  Individual poems received as separate file attachments and poems sent within the body of an email will be automatically rejected with no notification to the poet.
•  People who have entered previously for the prize can re-submit again but it is advisable to re-submit with new poems. Previously there was a rule about a shortlisted poet not submitting two years in a row. However this rule has now been suspended.
•  All shortlisted and winning poets agree to allowing this website to post their ten submitted poems on here.

Deadline: 2nd December, 2020

Submit HERE: All entries must be submitted via email only to BUAPP@brunel.ac.uk.

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