The Annual W B Yeats Poetry Prize is open to residents of Australia for previously unpublished poems.
Prize Details below
2019 Yeats Prize IS NOW OPEN
Closing date 31 March 2020
First Prize AU $600. 00
(Increased Prize as of January 29, 2020)
Award Certificate
Two Second Prizes AU $75. 00
Award Certificates
Commendation Certificates
RULES
# Entries only accepted from residents of Australia
# NOT previously published
My central area of interest in poetry in English, especially contemporary and modern poetry. Other areas of expertise include nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary American literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Australian literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Canadian literature. - See more at: http://corner.acu.edu.au/research_supervision/framework/browse.php?srperid=126#sthash.0rp8dO1W.dpuf
# 50 line maximum limit
# NO identification of author anywhere on the poem
# Open style
# Where entries are submitted by snail mail:
Typed on one side of A4 paper with three (3) copies provided.
Please use Times New Roman 11pt or Garamond 14 pt
# Name, address and contact details on a separate page.
Mail to: Yeats Poetry Prize
6 Samuel Close
Berwick VIC 3806
For email entries
Please include your name and address in submission message.
Entries submitted as an email message will not be accepted
# Entries may be submitted via email as an attachment
in a Word doc or PDF document to:
declanfoley2@gmail.com
Entry Fee for first or sole entry $10. 0 0 (Paypal click here)
Entry fee for each additional poem $4. 00
by cheque or Australia Post Money Order payable to W B Yeats Poetry Prize Inc.
or transfer from your bank to: W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia
Bendigo Bank BSB 633 108: Account Number 144571882
P.S. If you discover any errors on the web site, please send an email. W B Yeats was a notoriously poor speller. He was human, as we all are!
