CIPC2010 Now Open

2010 Cardiff International Poetry Competition

Multi-award winning poet and short story writer Jackie Kay and Anglesey-based poet and Poetry Wales Editor Zoë Skoulding have been announced as judges for the 2010 Cardiff International Poetry Competition.

The competition, which is now officially open, is one of the UK’s leading poetry competitions and offers one of the largest monetary prizes for a competition of its kind. First prize is £5,000; second prize £500; third prize £250 and five runners-up will receive £50 each.

Entries can be in any form and on any style though they must be unpublished, your own work and no longer than 50 lines. For full guidelines and conditions of entry click here.

If you think you have what it takes to win first prize of £5000 then send us your poems. The Cardiff International Poetry Competition is pleased to acknowledge the financial support of Cardiff Council.

To receive an entry form send a
stamped, self addressed envelope to:
Academi, Mount Stuart House, Mount Stuart Square,
Cardiff, CF10 5FQ

Or click here to download the entry form now

For more information contact Academi on:
029 2047 2266 / post@academi.org
 

The Judges

Jackie Kay

 

Jackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. Her most recent collection of short stories, Wish I Was Here (Picador, 2006) won the Decibel British Book Award. She has won the Guardian Fiction Prize for her novel Trumpet (Picador, 1998), and a Forward Prize for her collection of poetry The Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe, 1991). She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. Her most recent collection of poetry Darling, New And Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2007) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She was awarded an MBE in 2006. Her most recent collection for children, Red, Cherry Red (Bloomsbury, 2007) won the CLPE award. The Lamplighter, her long poem to commemorate the abolition of the slave trade, was published by Bloodaxe in 2008. Jackie lives in Manchester with her son.

Zoë Skoulding

 

Zoë Skoulding’s most recent collections of poems are Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008), which was long-listed for Wales Book of the Year, and The Mirror Trade (Seren, 2004). Her collaborative work includes Dark Wires (West House Books, 2007) with Ian Davidson, From Here (Dusie, 2008), with visual artist Simonetta Moro, Species Corridor (Klangbad, 2008), a CD album by Parking Non-Stop, and You Will Live In Your Own Cathedral (Seren, 2009), a pamphlet of poems in German and Czech translation accompanied by a CD of poetry set to soundscape with Alan Holmes, in association with Literature Across Frontiers. She is an AHRC Research Fellow at Bangor University, where she also runs part-time courses in literature and creative writing. Zoë became Editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales in 2008.

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