Lamberto Garzia, Ossi di Seppia

OSSI DI SEPPIA 30th Edition – FREE POETRY COMPETITION

PARTICIPATION RULES

SUBMISSIONS via email only with a word doc. attachment:

ossidiseppiapoesia@gmail.com

DEADLINE JANUARY 7 2024

SINGLE POEM SECTION A

Participants must send ONE UNPUBLISHED TEXT, free in theme and number of lines, in a single copy.

COLLECTION OF POEMS SECTION B

Participants must send a minimum of THREE to a maximum of SEVEN unpublished poems, free in theme and number of lines, in a single copy.

Participation is open to any living author of any nationality.

  Texts in English, French, Spanish are also accepted, without the obligation of translation, although a translation is welcome.

  Foreign authors of languages other than those mentioned above are invited to send the text(s) translated into English.

THE WORKS OF THE TOP FOUR CLASSIFIED AUTHORS OF THE TWO SECTIONS WILL FORM AN ANTHOLOGY IN PDF/EPUB FORMAT (PLUS SOME PAPER COPIES, WHICH WILL BE SENT TO THE LIBRARIES OF THE LIGURIA REGION.)

Authors who are awarded the prestigious Grand Jury Prize will be sent a certificate to their e-mail address in  JEPG format -, with “author’s name” and printable at their own convenience in the weight).

The poems will be evaluated by a jury of indisputable profile: Claudio Damiani, Mauro Ferrari and Lamberto Garzia as coordinator of the same (under the supervision of Giuseppe Conte, Tomaso Kemeny and Stefano Zecchi, examiners of the works in the historic First Edition, Year 1993) , whose judgment is final, who will have the opportunity to read the texts almost simultaneously after they have been sent by the participant, since the Secretariat will immediately forward the attachments.

The award ceremony is scheduled for Saturday,  February  17, 2024  at 17.30, at the historic Villa Boselli in Arma di Taggia.

For further information please contact only, by e-mail, to the following:

ossidiseppiapoesia@gmail.com