Send in your entries for ‘Edward Lear Prize for Poetry Sri Lanka’
View(s):The Owl and the Pussycat Hotel invites aspiring poets and writers to participate once again in the ‘Edward Lear Prize for Poetry Sri Lanka’ competition in collaboration with the Fairway Galle Literary Festival for the second consecutive year. The competition is open to young Sri Lankans between the ages of 18 and 30 years.
Chair of the Edward Lear Prize for Poetry, Reita Gadkari together with her business partner Shane Thantirimudalige affirms that Lear is their all-time favourite poet and that ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ was a favourite childhood poem of hers. In fact she loved it so much that this was what inspired her to name her first investment in Sri Lanka after the poem.
She continues to say that every line in the poem resonated with the space she had created and she was thrilled to dedicate her first Sri Lankan project to this amazing poet.
The competition is open only to citizens of Sri Lanka (or passport holders) between the ages of 18 & 30 years, entries should be an unpublished single poem or a collection of up to 5 poems.Each poem should have a minimum of 200 words and the total of 5 poems should not exceed 1200 words.The theme should follow in the vein of Edward Lear’s ‘Nonsensical Poems,’ bringing about a feeling of lightness and optimism to the world in which we live.Only the first 200 entries will be accepted.
The Edward Lear Poetry award 2017/2018 is open for entries from September 1, 2017.Entry forms are available at www.edwardlearprizeforpoetry.com and entries will close on November 10, 2017.
For further information email info@edwardlearprizeforpoetry.com
Winners will have to submit a recent photograph and a brief CV for placement on the website.