Closing Date: 15-Oct-2011
First Prize: N132,500.00 (£500.00)
Second Prize: N66,250.00 (£250.00)
Third Prize: N33,125.00 (£125.00)
High Commendation Prizes: N6625.00 x 5 (£25.00 x 5)
First publication: The 8 Prize winners will receive first publication in Sentinel Champions magazine #9, February 2012.
Entry Fee: N1,325.00 (£5.00) per poem (You may enter as many poems as you wish.)
Judge: Roger Elkin author of Fixing Things and No Laughing Matter
Further information: This competition is for previously unpublished poems in English Language on any subject or style up to 50 lines long. Poems must also not have been posted on any publicly accessible website, blog or forum, and must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere. Entries must be type written on plain white A4 paper, with a standard black typeface, using one side of the paper only. Authors’ names or any other identifying marks must not appear on entries, but only on the entry form or covering letter.
Results will be announced on 30th November, 2011 at www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk
How to Enter from Nigeria
1. GO to any Mainstreet Bank, formerly Afribank and pay N1,325.00 (One Thousand Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Naira only) per poem. Enter as many poems as you wish. Payment in favour of SKOONEF BUSINESS LTD. A/C Number 0032868337628. In the Depositor’s Name field, write your name followed in brackets by SAPC-2011. e.g. Depositor’s Name: Naija Poet (SAPC-2011).
2. Send your poem or poems, together with your cover note stating your name, postal address, email address, telephone number and title(s) of your poem(s) to competitions@sentinelpoetry.org.uk Please note: Your name or any other identifying mark must not appear on the poem.
3. Entries must reach us before midnight 15th October, 2011
About The Judge: Roger Elkin
Roger has won over 150 prizes and places, including 35 firsts, in international poetry competitions. Author of Fixing Things and No Laughing Matter, he was shortlisted for the Bloodaxe New Blood Book-length competition (1987). He was one of 10 shortlisted (out of 4,000 entries) for the Strokestown International Poetry Competition (2003), and one of 6 shortlisted for the Keele University Poetry Prize (2007). His poetry has received the Lake Aske Memorial Award (1982 & 1987), the Douglas Gibson Memorial Award (1986), the Sylvia Plath Award for Poems about Women (1986), the Hugh MacDiarmid Trophy (2003) and the first recipient of the Howard Sergeant Memorial Award for Services to Poetry in 1987. He was literary advisor to the Leek Arts Festival, for whom he organized an International Poetry Competition (1982-1992); the co-Editor (1985-1988) of Prospice, the international literary quarterly, issues 17-25 inclusive; and sole Editor of Envoi 1991-2006, (issues 101-145). He was also judge of the Sentinel Annual Poetry Competition 2010 which was won by Christian Ward.
Terms & Conditions + Privacy Policy
(1) You may enter as many stories as you wish with the appropriate entry fees. (2) The judge reads the poems without any indication of the identity of the authors. If the same poet wins more than one prize, in the interest of fairness we WILL award it. (3) The decision of the judge is final, and no communication will be entered into. (4) If on the advice of the judge, the quality of entries is too low to produce worthy prize winners, or any other legitimate reason beyond our control arises which may affect a fair completion or conduct of the competition, we reserve the right to cancel the competition and refund all entry fees immediately by the same method we have been paid. (5) We reserve the right to reapportion the prize money if necessary in the interest of continuity as an alternative to cancellation of the competition. (6) If you would like an acknowledgement of postal entries, please enclose an SAE marked “acknowledgement”. (7) The Judge’s Report will be published on 30-11-2011 at www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk. if you would like to receive the Judges’ Report in the post, please enclose an SAE marked “Judges’ Report SAPC 2011”. (8) All prizewinners will be notified by post or e-mail within 7 days of the announcement of the results. These notifications will be accompanied with a prize claim invoice. (9) By entering this competition you provide some information such as your address and e-mail address which may be deemed personal information. These will be processed according to the data protection act 1998. We will never pass on any detail you provide in the course of entering this competition to a third party and we will never sell your data to anyone for marketing purposes. (10) By entering this competition you agree that we may contact you by e-mail or post via our newsletter with the results of the competition, the adjudicator’s reports and information on future competitions. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. (11) All entries must be received by midnight 15th October, 2011.
Exchange rate for both entry fees and prizes are fixed at N265 to the £1.00 whether the rates go up or down.
