[CALL FOR SUBMISSION] PALETTE POETRY: 2020 BRUSH AND LYRE PRIZE($3500)— Pawners Paper

Call for submission for PALETTE POETRY brush and Lyre prize for

The 2020 Brush & Lyre Prize | $3500 Awarded for Artfully Communicated Poetry

DEADLINE: CLOSES OCTOBER 18, 2020

Recently, a call was made out to poets to submit their works for the 2020 Brush and Luret Prize. This unique multimedia contest will accept work that incorporates poetry into new media formats, including but not limited to: music, video, art, photography, sculpture, and performance—use the communication technique that you feel most creatively gets across the experience of your poetry. You choose the creative canvas. 

However, a huge prize of $3500 will be awarded to the winners and all winners will be published on Palette Poetry.

The submissions will rate the work accordingly: 50% poetic experience, 50% media experience. Each submission must include poetry into the work in some significant way—visually written or audio recorded. Ekphrasis is welcome as well, as long as the art is original.

They are looking to experience poetry in a new way, beyond just black text on a blank page!

As informed by the organizers, their editorial team will select the winner of the $3000 top prize, as well as two runner-ups for $300 and $200 respectively. 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions must include at least one significant multimedia aspect, such as video, photography, sculpture, audio, painting, or performance.

Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—other languages are okay to include, as long as the meat of the poem is in English.

Collaborations are welcome.

The author may appear in the video and/or credits.

A poem that has been published previously may be included into the new work, if the new multimedia aspect is original and unpublished. You must have permission from the previous publisher of the work however, and the poem must be your own or a collaborator's.

There is no page requirement, but submission must be no more than 2 individual works.

Please keep any recordings and videos under 8 minutes.

We do accept multiple submissions, but each submission will include the reading fee.

Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history

Contest closes on October 18, 2020.

$20 reading fee.

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