Postcard Competition BARE HANDS INTERNATIONAL POETRY , PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 2013

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Postcard Competition

BARE HANDS INTERNATIONAL POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 2013

We are delighted to be running our postcard competition again! Four winners will be selected and there will be a shared cash prize of €400. The two winning poems and two winning photographs of the competition will be turned into 2,000 beautiful postcards distributed to leading independent bookshops around the world including Dublin, London, Edinburgh, Derry, Galway, Cork, Paris, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Greece, Sydney, Toronto & Vancouver. They’ll be free so people can just pick them up! Click here to view the winning and highly commended entries from last year.

The theme of the competition is Bare Hands

Deadline March 31st

Entry fee is €5 - to enter simply click the Buy Now Paypal button at the top of our site. Please include your Paypal Transaction ID in your competition entry email! Multiple submissions are allowed.

Guidelines:

Poetry

Mark the subject field as ‘Competition Entry Poetry’ and send maximum three poems of under twenty lines each within the body of an email to barehandspoetry@gmail.com

Photography

Mark the subject field as ‘Competition Entry Photography’ and send maximum three photographs as jpeg attachments to barehandspoetry@gmail.com and please ensure that your images are high enough quality for printing. barehandspoetry.tumblr.com

The two winners in each category will receive €100 each and their work will be made into 2,000 postcards sent to independent bookshops around the world for free. Four highly commended entries in each category will be published on our website and their names will appear on the printed postcards. The winners will be announced in May and the postcards will be distributed in June.

Other things to consider

The theme of the competition is Bare Hands so please make sure your work is bare hands related!

We prefer poetry that has not yet been published ;)

Best of luck - we can’t wait to see your work!

Oh and bookshops will include…

Shakespeare & Co, Paris

The Abbey Bookshop, Paris

Foyles Bookshop, London

Woolfson and Tay, London

Another Country, Berlin

St. George’s, Berlin

Atlantis Books, Santorini

Little Acorns Bookstore, Derry

Gertrude & Alice, Sydney

Sappho Books, Melbourne

Collected Works, Melbourne

City Lights, San Francisco

Moe’s Books, San Francisco

The Last Bookstore, LA

Skylight Books, LA

The Strand, New York

Greenlight Bookstore, New York

The Edinburgh Bookshop, Edinburgh

Type Books, Toronto

McLeod’s, Vancouver

The Winding Stair, Dublin

Charlie Byrne’s, Galway

Vibes & Scribes, Cork

And more to be announced!!