The IWA is sponsoring its Annual Poetry Contest for the year of 2010 in April, as it has been in this same month in years past, coinciding with National Poetry Month (US). The theme for this year's contest is 'ibadah', or worship. Submissions will be accepted from April 1st through April 30th 2010. For information about and the Poetry contest guidelines click here.
For visitors interested in reading the winning contest entries for our Annual Poetry and Islamic Fiction Stories contests from prior years, please click the following links: Poetry and Fiction Contest pages.
The IWA is also planning to sponsor the annual Islamic Fiction Stories contest as well, but no definite date has yet been set for this contest. We will keep you posted as news develops of the dates for this contest.
All poetry for Islamic Writers Alliance Annual Poetry contests must conform to the following general guidelines. Poems that do not adhere to these standards will be automatically disqualified from the competition.
· Poetry must be Islamic in theme in nature
· If contest has a theme for the year, poem must fit within the selected Theme
· Poetry must be from at least 2 but no more than 100 lines
· Poetry may be of any `type' of poetry including but not limited to ballad, couplet, iambic pentameter, quatrain, cinquain, sonnet, haiku, epic, free verse, and even light verse, limerick and spoken word
· Poetry contest has 3 categories of submission
o IWA Members –
o Adults – authors 18 and over who are not members of IWA
o Youth – authors under the age of 18 who are not members of IWA
· Maximum of 1 submission per individual
· Entries that have won previously cannot be resubmitted
· Poems will only be accepted as plain text (ASCII) format in the body of email , as an attachment in Microsoft Word or as an PDF.
· Poems must be submitted via email
· Poems must be submitted to poetrycontest@islamicwritersalliance.net
· Poems must include authors name, category, email address, mailing address and phone number and title of poem
· Poems that are submitted by youth under the age of 18 must also include a statement from a parent or legal guardian authorizing the IWA's public use of poem on the website
· Teachers may submit `class' poetry as individual submissions from one school
· Poems are the legal property of the author
· IWA retains the right to disqualify and reject submissions deemed inappropriate
For visitors interested in reading the winning contest entries for our Annual Poetry and Islamic Fiction Stories contests from prior years, please click the following links: Poetry and Fiction Contest pages.
The IWA is also planning to sponsor the annual Islamic Fiction Stories contest as well, but no definite date has yet been set for this contest. We will keep you posted as news develops of the dates for this contest.
All poetry for Islamic Writers Alliance Annual Poetry contests must conform to the following general guidelines. Poems that do not adhere to these standards will be automatically disqualified from the competition.
· Poetry must be Islamic in theme in nature
· If contest has a theme for the year, poem must fit within the selected Theme
· Poetry must be from at least 2 but no more than 100 lines
· Poetry may be of any `type' of poetry including but not limited to ballad, couplet, iambic pentameter, quatrain, cinquain, sonnet, haiku, epic, free verse, and even light verse, limerick and spoken word
· Poetry contest has 3 categories of submission
o IWA Members –
o Adults – authors 18 and over who are not members of IWA
o Youth – authors under the age of 18 who are not members of IWA
· Maximum of 1 submission per individual
· Entries that have won previously cannot be resubmitted
· Poems will only be accepted as plain text (ASCII) format in the body of email , as an attachment in Microsoft Word or as an PDF.
· Poems must be submitted via email
· Poems must be submitted to poetrycontest@islamicwritersalliance.net
· Poems must include authors name, category, email address, mailing address and phone number and title of poem
· Poems that are submitted by youth under the age of 18 must also include a statement from a parent or legal guardian authorizing the IWA's public use of poem on the website
· Teachers may submit `class' poetry as individual submissions from one school
· Poems are the legal property of the author
· IWA retains the right to disqualify and reject submissions deemed inappropriate
