Purple Moose Prize 2012
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
The winner of the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Poetry Prize 2012 has now been chosen!
The judges have selected Maps and Love Song for Mina Loy by Joanne Ashcroft as the winner. Congratulations Joanne!
The winning pamphlet will be published in January 2013
The two runners-up are:
A Boat called Annalise by Lynne Hjelmgaard and
The Back of Things by Emma Danes
Congratulations to Lynne and Emma too!
Caroline Natzler June 1st, 2012
Please let me know when entry forms for the 2012 Purple Moose competition will be available – I’ve been checking every day!
And can entrants submit 2 pamphlets? If so, same or different pen names?
Many thanks.
Caroline Natzler
RobinG June 7th, 2012
Hi Caroline – will do!
And yes, you can – the decision about pen names is up to you (I’ve added this to the details above).
Best wishes,
PW
Robert Nisbet June 8th, 2012
Robin
When will we know who the adjudicatrs are to be?
Robert Nisbet
RobinG June 19th, 2012
They are up there now Robert – the same judges as last year, Zoë Skoulding and John Barnie.
Simon Williams (@greatbigbadger) July 4th, 2012
Any guidelines on type of material: mainstream, experimental, performance? Can’t find any samples of previous winners for guidance.
RobinG July 4th, 2012
Hi Simon,
Thanks for your message.
There are no stylistic guidelines, and while we haven’t posted examples of the winners’ work (maybe we should!) they have all been published by Seren, so you can read descriptions of the 3 pamphlets from previous competitions on the Seren website: Precious Asses, Welcome Back to the Country, and little armoured.
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Roger Bradley July 27th, 2012
I haven’t come across any guidelines on length of poems – I have one which I would like to include but it is two pages long: any advice?
RobinG July 27th, 2012
Hi Roger,
There are no guidelines or rules per se, besides that entries should be 20-24 pages long.
Most poems in the collections entered are ’single page’ poems, but including poems which are a little longer is fine – all three previous winners did so.
Best wishes,
Robin