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Title: The Wattpad Poetry Awards (aka The Attys) deadline for entries
Description: Wattpad touts itself as the world’s largest community for discovering and sharing stories on the web and across every mobile device. Wattpad has teamed up with Margaret Atwood to offer a range of prizes – including critiques of one’s work by Margaret Atwood herself – to aspiring poets in a two-tiered contest.
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Date: October 31, 2012
Title: The Wattpad Poetry Awards (aka The Attys) submissions open
Description: Wattpad touts itself as the world’s largest community for discovering and sharing stories on the web and across every mobile device. Wattpad has teamed up with Margaret Atwood to offer a range of prizes – including critiques of one’s work by Margaret Atwood herself – to aspiring poets in a two-tiered contest.
Learn more here.
Date: August 1, 2012
Title: The Bridport Prize winners announced
Location: United Kingdom
Description: The Bridport Prize International Creative Writing Competition was founded by Bridport Arts Centre in 1973 and has steadily grown in stature and prestige. Right from the start the competition attracted entries from all parts of the UK and from overseas. Today many thousands of entries are received from over 80 countries worldwide.
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Date: October 14, 2012
Title: The Nobel Prize in Literature
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Description: Alfred Nobel had broad cultural interests. The interest that he developed in literature during his early youth lasted throughout his life. His library holds a rich spectrum of literature in different languages. Further evidence of Nobel’s literary interest was that during the last years of his life, he began writing fiction again. Literature was the fourth prize area Nobel mentioned in his will.
The very first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded in 1901 to the French poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme, who in his poetry showed the “rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect”. Over the years, the Nobel Prize in Literature has distinguished the works of authors from many different languages and cultural backgrounds. The Literature Prize has been awarded to unknown masters as well as authors acclaimed worldwide.
According to tradition, the Swedish Academy sets the date for its announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature later in October relative to the other prizes.
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Date: October 1, 2012
Title: Lunch poems @sfu presents poets George Bowering and Cecily Nicholson
Location: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: Lunch poems @sfu is volunteer-run, hosting poetry readings once a month at Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC. Lunch Poems @SFU holds readings from noon to 1pm in the Teck Gallery. All events are free and everyone is welcome to attend.
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Date: September 19, 2012
Title: Science Fiction Poetry Association Contest deadline for entries
Description: The Science Fiction Poetry Association was founded in 1978 to bring together poets and readers interested in science fiction poetry. Science fiction poetry includes some element of speculation — usually science fiction, fantasy, or horror, and might also include surrealism, or some straight science.
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Date: September 15, 2012
Title: Struga Poetry Evenings
Location: Struga, Republic of Macedonia
Description: The Struga Poetry Evenings started in 1962 with a series of readings by a number of Macedonian poets in honor of the two brothers, Konstantin and Dimitar Miladinov, great intellectuals, teachers, and writers, born in Struga in the beginning of 19th century. Despite the tremendous difficulties and harsh realities that the festival has had to live with — the fall of Yugoslavia, the war in Bosnia, the Kosovo crisis, the political and ethnic clashes in Macedonia, the terrorist crisis after September 11th attacks, and the numerous political and economic embargos imposed on the region — the SPE has successfully flourished, becoming one of the most important poetry festivals in the modern world. And that is a tribute to world poetry and its poets. since its inception, the festival has hosted about 4.000 poets, translators, essayists and literary critics from 95 countries of the world.
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Start Date: August 23, 2012
End Date: August 26, 2012
Title: Edinburgh International Book Festival
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Edinburgh International Book Festival welcomes over 800 authors in over 750 events each year including novelists, poets, scientists, philosophers, sportsmen, illustrators, graphic artists, historians, musicians, biographers, environmentalists, economists, Nobel and Booker prize-winners and many more besides, bringing readers and writers together for entertainment, discussion and pure inspiration.
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Start Date: August 11, 2012
End Date: August 27, 2012
Title: Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award deadline for entries
Description: The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is an opportunity for any young poet aged 11-17 to accelerate their writing career. Since it began 15 years ago the Award has kick-started the career of some of today’s most exciting new voices. With entries from over 7,200 young people last year across from the UK and worldwide, it is the largest competition of its kind and its importance is widely attested.
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Date: July 31, 2012
Title: West Cork Literary Festival
Location: Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland
Description: Now an annual highlight in the Irish literary calendar, the West Cork Literary Festival is a week-long celebration of writing and reading for people of all ages. From its humble beginnings as a series of casual poetry readings and fringe events around the Chamber Music Festival, it has expanded into a varied and extensive programme of readings, talks and week-long workshops, growing more adventurous and imaginative with each year.
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Start Date: July 8, 2012
End Date: July 14, 2012