Deadline: 31 December 2010
From PAWAINC:
TENTH ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST
Sponsor: Meritage Press (www.meritagepress.com)
Judge: Beatriz Tabios
Deadline: December 31, 2010
ABOUT THE CONTEST:
All poets are encouraged to submit by e-mailing 1 or 2 poems to MeritagePress@aol.com. Please present poems within the body of the email as we do not open attachments. Please include your full name along with your e-mail address. However, the poems will be shared without your names to judge Beatriz Tabios, thereby allowing the poems to be read on their own merit. All poets are welcome to submit — it doesn't matter whether you're established or emerging as the work is read on its own merit.
There are no limitations to poetry styles or content. All types of poems are welcome. By Filipino, we include part-blooded Filipinos. We are now taking submissions up to the deadline of Dec. 31, 2010.
Only previously unpublished poems are eligible (you may, however, submit poems that you have featured on your own web sites or or blogs, or that have been published in limited edition chapbooks of no more than 250 copies).
ABOUT THE JUDGE:
Beatriz Tabios received her B.A. with English as her major from the Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines. She first developed her love for poetry as a sixth-grader reading Homer, William Shakespeare, John Keats, Alexander Pope, William Wordworth and Samuel Coleridge while trying to survive World War II. She further developed her appreciation for poetry as a college student instructed by poet Edith Tiempo, the first woman to receive the title of National Artist for Literature in the Philippines. The late Dr. Edilberto Tiempo, then the head of the English Department, encouraged Mrs. Tabios to continue her study of English and American literature. With Edilberto Tiempo's encouragement, Mrs. Tabios wrote her Master of Arts thesis which was the first investigation, regarding Filipino literature, of "(The Use of) Local Color in Short Stories in English." Later, she taught English literature at Dagupan College (now University of Pangasinan) and University of Baguio, before becoming a teacher at Brent School, a boarding school initially built for children from U.S.-American military, missionary and gold-mining families stationed in the Far East. Mrs. Tabios' first book, LOCAL COLOR, will be published shortly after she turns 81 years old in Spring 2011 by the Center for Babaylan Studies and Meritage Press. Her book will present short memoirs as well as a reprint of her M.A. Thesis.
PRIZES:
Meritage Press has asked the judge to choose one winner. However, Mrs. Tabios may choose other finalist-winners, depending on the quality of the submissions. The winner(s) will have their poems published in "Babaylan Speaks" at http://meritagepress.com/babaylan/
The FIRST PLACE WINNER also will receive SELECTED FILIPINO TITLES:
LOCAL COLOR by Beatriz Tabios (to be sent after its release)
TRAJE DE BODA by Aileen Ibardaloza
PRAU by Jean Vengua
MUSEUM OF ABSENCES by Luis H. Francia
KALI'S BLADE by Michelle Bautista
THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego & Eileen Tabios
THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II, co-edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young
PINOY POETICS: A COLLECTION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS ON FILIPINO AND FILIPINO AMERICAN POETICS, edited by Nick Carbo
SILK EGG: COLLECTED NOVELS by Eileen Tabios
THE THORN ROSARY: SELECTED PROSE POEMS 1998-2010 by Eileen Tabios
NOTA BENE EISWEIN by Eileen Tabios
THE BLIND CHATELAINE'S KEYS by Eileen Tabios
I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios
MENAGE A TROIS WITH THE 21st CENTURY by Eileen Tabios
REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE by Eileen Tabios
FINALISTS:
Other finalist-winners besides the winner, if any, will receive two of the above-listed books (the choice of books are up to Meritage Press).
PREVIOUS WINNERS:
2009: Michelle Peñaloza (Judge: Aileen Ibardaloza)
2008: Rodrigo V. Dela Pena Jr. (Judge: Bino A. Realuyo)
2007: Naya S. Valdellon & Marcel L. MiIliam (Judge: Eric Gamalinda)
2006: Joel M. Toledo (Judge: Michelle Bautista)
2005: Arkaye Velasquez Kierulf (Judge: Jean Vengua)
2004: Joel H. Vega (Judge: Sarah Gambito)
2003: Luisa A. Igloria (Judge: Patrick Rosal)
2002: Naya S. Valdellon & Michella Rivera-Gravage (Judge: Oliver de la Paz)
2001: Carlomar Arcangel Daoana (Judge: Nick Carbo)
For questions or more information, you can email MeritagePress@aol.com
More information here.
From PAWAINC:
TENTH ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST
Sponsor: Meritage Press (www.meritagepress.com)
Judge: Beatriz Tabios
Deadline: December 31, 2010
ABOUT THE CONTEST:
All poets are encouraged to submit by e-mailing 1 or 2 poems to MeritagePress@aol.com. Please present poems within the body of the email as we do not open attachments. Please include your full name along with your e-mail address. However, the poems will be shared without your names to judge Beatriz Tabios, thereby allowing the poems to be read on their own merit. All poets are welcome to submit — it doesn't matter whether you're established or emerging as the work is read on its own merit.
There are no limitations to poetry styles or content. All types of poems are welcome. By Filipino, we include part-blooded Filipinos. We are now taking submissions up to the deadline of Dec. 31, 2010.
Only previously unpublished poems are eligible (you may, however, submit poems that you have featured on your own web sites or or blogs, or that have been published in limited edition chapbooks of no more than 250 copies).
ABOUT THE JUDGE:
Beatriz Tabios received her B.A. with English as her major from the Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines. She first developed her love for poetry as a sixth-grader reading Homer, William Shakespeare, John Keats, Alexander Pope, William Wordworth and Samuel Coleridge while trying to survive World War II. She further developed her appreciation for poetry as a college student instructed by poet Edith Tiempo, the first woman to receive the title of National Artist for Literature in the Philippines. The late Dr. Edilberto Tiempo, then the head of the English Department, encouraged Mrs. Tabios to continue her study of English and American literature. With Edilberto Tiempo's encouragement, Mrs. Tabios wrote her Master of Arts thesis which was the first investigation, regarding Filipino literature, of "(The Use of) Local Color in Short Stories in English." Later, she taught English literature at Dagupan College (now University of Pangasinan) and University of Baguio, before becoming a teacher at Brent School, a boarding school initially built for children from U.S.-American military, missionary and gold-mining families stationed in the Far East. Mrs. Tabios' first book, LOCAL COLOR, will be published shortly after she turns 81 years old in Spring 2011 by the Center for Babaylan Studies and Meritage Press. Her book will present short memoirs as well as a reprint of her M.A. Thesis.
PRIZES:
Meritage Press has asked the judge to choose one winner. However, Mrs. Tabios may choose other finalist-winners, depending on the quality of the submissions. The winner(s) will have their poems published in "Babaylan Speaks" at http://meritagepress.com/babaylan/
The FIRST PLACE WINNER also will receive SELECTED FILIPINO TITLES:
LOCAL COLOR by Beatriz Tabios (to be sent after its release)
TRAJE DE BODA by Aileen Ibardaloza
PRAU by Jean Vengua
MUSEUM OF ABSENCES by Luis H. Francia
KALI'S BLADE by Michelle Bautista
THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego & Eileen Tabios
THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II, co-edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young
PINOY POETICS: A COLLECTION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS ON FILIPINO AND FILIPINO AMERICAN POETICS, edited by Nick Carbo
SILK EGG: COLLECTED NOVELS by Eileen Tabios
THE THORN ROSARY: SELECTED PROSE POEMS 1998-2010 by Eileen Tabios
NOTA BENE EISWEIN by Eileen Tabios
THE BLIND CHATELAINE'S KEYS by Eileen Tabios
I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios
MENAGE A TROIS WITH THE 21st CENTURY by Eileen Tabios
REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE by Eileen Tabios
FINALISTS:
Other finalist-winners besides the winner, if any, will receive two of the above-listed books (the choice of books are up to Meritage Press).
PREVIOUS WINNERS:
2009: Michelle Peñaloza (Judge: Aileen Ibardaloza)
2008: Rodrigo V. Dela Pena Jr. (Judge: Bino A. Realuyo)
2007: Naya S. Valdellon & Marcel L. MiIliam (Judge: Eric Gamalinda)
2006: Joel M. Toledo (Judge: Michelle Bautista)
2005: Arkaye Velasquez Kierulf (Judge: Jean Vengua)
2004: Joel H. Vega (Judge: Sarah Gambito)
2003: Luisa A. Igloria (Judge: Patrick Rosal)
2002: Naya S. Valdellon & Michella Rivera-Gravage (Judge: Oliver de la Paz)
2001: Carlomar Arcangel Daoana (Judge: Nick Carbo)
For questions or more information, you can email MeritagePress@aol.com
More information here.
