TakahēMonica Taylor

Poetry Prize 2017

This year our poetry competition will be judged by

Elizabeth Smither

First Prize: $250

Second Prize: $100

Two runners up will receive one year’s free subscription to takahē magazine.

Entries to be postmarked no later than Wednesday 31st August 2017.

No email entries, please.

Results and the winning poemswill be published in takahē 88 (December 2016),

and all entries will considered for publication.

Conditions of Entry:

  1. Each entry must be the original work of the person submitting it; entries must not have been broadcast or previously published in any form (including webzines or personal blogs), and must not be submitted elsewhere for any competition or for publication in any form until after 1 December 2017.
  2. Maximum length for each poem submitted is 50 lines. Please enter the line count with your poem title on the entry form. Poems exceeding the line count will be disqualified.
  3. Entrants may submit as many previously unpublished poems as they wish, but each must be named separately on the entry form. Please use ONE entry form for all your poems.
  4. All entries should be typed on one side of A4 paper. NB: keep a copy of your poem(s) as entries will not be returned.
  5. Each poem must be accompanied by a NZ$5 entry fee. Subscribers to takahēreceive one additional free entry. Overseas entrants are asked to email r advice on payment.
  6. The entrant’s name or nom de plume must not appear on the manuscript.
  7. Worldwide copyright of entries will remain with the author, but all entries received will be considered for publication in takahēmagazine.
  8. The judge’s decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. Any entrant breaching this condition will be disqualified.
  9. The results and judge's comments will be published in the December issue of the magazine, and on our website: Only those placed will receive individual notification of the results.
  10. In the event of the competition being cancelled, all monies will be refunded.

2017 TAKAHĒ POETRY COMPETITION ENTRY FORM

Name:

Phone number:

Postal Address:

E-mail address:

Poem Title (or first line, if untitled) / Line Count

Please use ONE form for all entries. A second page may be used if you have more entries than will fit in the above table.

If you would like to subscribe totakahēmagazine and support takahē’s efforts
to promote established and emerging writers, please add a subscription to your
entry fees.Current subscription rates are:

New Zealand: $30.00 (1 year, 2 print issues)

Overseas: NZ$45.00 (1 year, 2 print issues)

Entry Fee of NZ$5 per poem enclosed?

takahē subscriber(one additional free entry)?

Line count recorded for each poem?

Would you like to be added to our emailing list?

Post entries to:

TakahēPoetry Competition

PO Box 13-335

Christchurch 8141

New Zealand