International Literary Prize
for unpublished works in prose and poetry
in Italian
Tenth Edition - Year 2011
REGULATION
The competition is open to all and requires no registration fee. You welcome a free and voluntary contribution to the organizational and secretarial expenses.
may participate with works by Italian and foreigners in Italian language.
We recognize two categories of participants:
- Youth (under 22 years)
- Adults (aged 19 years and older)
Young people up to 22 years may, at its discretion, also participate in the sections devoted to adults, it is sufficient to indicate sections under which they intend to participate inside the package of texts sent in the manner described below.
For the purposes of awarding the Youth category will be further divided into three age groups: up to 10 years, from 11 years to 15 years from 16 years to 22 years old.
The award is divided into six sections:
- Section A Adults - prose or short story on any subject (maximum length of a single story 3 folders or 2 stories of 2 pages maximum length, 30 lines each folder)
- Section B Adults - poetry on any subject (up to 3 poems, maximum length 40 lines each)
- Section C Young - prose or short story on any subject (only one long story Maximum 3 pages or 2 stories of 2 pages maximum length, 30 lines each folder)
- Youth Section D - poetry on any subject (up to 3 poems, maximum length 40 lines each)
- Section E unpublished collection of poems on any subject (a compilation of minimum 5 and maximum of 10 poems with lines of free length. Please note that the papers must be stapled together to form a file for each copy sent, under penalty of disqualification)
- Section F Haiku (maximum of 10 classic haiku form: three lines respectively, 5, 7 and 5 syllables)
Each participant may compete in multiple sections.
The works submitted must be unpublished and must not have ever received literary awards in other competitions.
Works must be delivered or mailed to:
literary award "The Rainbow of Life"
c / o Gloria Venturini
Via EF Foresti, 6 / E
45100 ROVIGO
not later than September 15, 2011 , will the postmark.
AWARDS
For sections A, B, E and F will be awarded the top five , which will be donated art plaques and certificates of merit recognition. For the next ten will be awarded classified reports on certified diploma.
For Section C will be rewarded with art plaques and diplomas, the winner of each age group .
For Section D will be rewarded with art plaques and diplomas, the top two finishers of each age group .
Within the category Young will be awarded special prizes and more reports on at the discretion of the jury.
The jury and the organizers reserve the right to assign special prizes to authors and / or works of particular importance.
may also be established on a section Intercultura which will reward the most meritorious essays sent from abroad and / or citizens inhabitants in Italy, but born in other countries.
The winners and will be reported promptly contacted by telephone and notified by written communication (possibly by e-mail). The outcome of the competition will still be posted on various Internet sites of literary and on the competition website
The awards ceremony will take place presumably on a Saturday afternoon of the first half of December 2011.
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