Literature/Poetry-INLS

INLS ANA POETERY FESTIVAL BALTIMORE- 2008

ANA INLS poetry festival will again alive the ANA convention in July 3, 2008 from 6 pm to 10 pm. Arranged into one intense day, the festival welcomes well known and budding poets. As usual the poetry festival is divided into two sessions. The first one is competitive and the other one is the non competitive where all the renowned poets will read their recent verse.

The First Session: Poetry for Competition

Theme of festival: The Contemporary Nepal and Globalization of Nepali Literature

Procedures for this session (both Adults & children poets take part respectively)
Moderator: Two
Time Distribution: 90 minutes
Number of poems accepted: 40 for adults and 20 for children
Panel of judges: Three (will be only disclosed during session)
Submission Date: June 28th 2008

Criteria (submission guide lines)

Entrants must submit only one poem and can not take part in both Sessions.
Entrants may submit only one poem on Contemporary Nepali Literature theme for competition and must be originally written in Nepali Language.
All poems must be unpublished, original work of a living author. Poems must not have been previously published, self-published or published on a website or broadcast.
The poem must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only.
No alterations can be made to the poem once it has been submitted. The judges' decisions are final and no correspondence can be entered into regarding those decisions.
The judges are instructed to give 70% in theme of the poem and 30% for presentation.
The judges' shortlists will be announced on May 15,2008 and the prizes will be announced and awarded during the ANA International Poetry Festival, Each winner will be invited to read a selection of his/her work at the festival. Prize winner must attend the convention to be eligible to be winner. A list of the prize-winners will be posted up on ANA poetry festival website as soon as they are announced during the festival weekend.
Copyright will remain with the competitor, but ANA along with INLS will reserve the right to arrange first publication or broadcast of selected poems.
Submission of a poem implies the competitor's acceptance of the conditions set out above.
Along with the completed entry form given below, interested poets will submit their poetry by postal service or via email not later than June 28, 2008 to the following address.

HB Bhandari Prabhat
Chair INLS- ANA Poetry Festival Committee-2008
4411 Laplata Ave Apt F, Baltimore MD, 21211, USA.
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The Second Session: Open to All & Distinguished Guests

This session is not competitive and designed for all the interested people and all renowned poets and literary figures like Dr. Taranath Sharma, Rt. Hon'bl Dr. Pawan Kumar Chamling and so on will attend the festival. It is expected to last for 45 minutes.

The festival will conclude with the announcement of Prizes and Awards: The famous ANA-INLS annual Awards are:

I. SHARMA MUDVARI ADULT POETRY AWARD

First $150 and Certificate
Second $ 100 and Certificate
Third $50 and Certificate

II. AMAR MINA CHILDREN AWARD

First $100 and certificate
Second$75 and certificate
Third $25 and certificate
Note: Only children below 18 years old are eligible in this category

III. NARAYAN - JAYANTA PRASAI WEB JOURNALISM AWARD

A. The purpose of this award:

This is to encourage and promote Nepali Literary Web Journalism by honoring the online publication of literary journals .

B. Amount of the award: Cash $200.00 and a Certificate.

C. Award entry qualification criteria:

There is no application fee.
The publication must have been published online consistently for minimum of one calendar year. It must have valid Web address at the time of evaluation. The web publication must be publicly accessible and may have been utilized by any Web publishing technology.
The publication must have been published and managed from outside Nepal in the Diaspora.
Nepali Literary Web Journalism publication is defined as a web publication that includes any of the following forms of creative and non-fiction writings: poems, short stories, literary translation, essays, diaries, autobiography, biographies, creative letters, magazine writing, travel writing, book reviews, nature writing, science fiction writing, literary, cultural, art histories, journalism, literary news and views and the memoirs. The publication must cover most of these writings.
A nomination for award could be submitted by the editor or publisher or anyone authorized on behalf of the publication.
The publication could be in Nepali and English language or both but the content should include much more of the Nepali context.
A publication that is directly edited by a member of this award’s Judges can not participate in the award.

D. Award Evaluation Criteria:

The publication will be evaluated using five generic online publication evaluation criteria - Accuracy, Reliability, Authority, Objectivity, Currency and Coverage.

(Please visit www.inls.org and look 12/14/07 Award Notice for other details on this prize)
The judges’ decision is full and final. The ANA-INLS poetry festival committee reserves the copy right and administrative changes if needed.