Entries are now open for the Greek-Australian Cultural League (GACL) Literary competition for works written in Greek and/or English by writers who are over 18 years of age and reside in Australia.
The competition which has two categories, Poetry and Short Story, is aimed at reaching the widest pool of writers Australia wide and also gives friends and members of the league the chance to present their unpublished work by Friday, 30 June.
The winning entries in each category in each language will be published in Issue Number 69 of the GACL’s annual bilingual periodical Antipodes with the announcement of the winners being made in October at a special function that will incorporate the periodical’s launch.
Application rules:
-The adjudication will be separate for each language.
-Participants may submit work in one or all the categories and in one or both languages, with only one piece in each category they choose.
-Works that do not comply with the limits of content, as prescribed below, will be automatically rejected and will not be forwarded to the Judging Panel.
-Submissions with many grammatical and syntactical mistakes will be rejected.
-Content limits: Poem 100 verses (lines); Short story 2000 words.
-All submissions should be the original work(s) of the authors and should not have been submitted in another competition or have been previously published.
-Each work submitted should be signed by a pseudonym (nom de plume) and the same pseudonym should be used in signing all the entries submitted by the same person.
-Each competition entry should be sent only electronically (Word document attachment) to the competition email address: gaclitcomp@gmail.com. Additionally, in a separate text sent to the same email address, participants are required to forward their particulars, including the pseudonym, the full name, address and telephone numbers and also, the number of verses in their poems and number of words in their short stories (The entry or Application form).
-The Literary judges reserve the right to preclude an entry if it is considered to have too many syntactical or orthographical mistakes.
-The First Prize in each category and in each language will receive a commemorative certificate and a monetary prize. The Second and Third Prizes and any Commendations will receive a commemorative award certificate and books.
-In all categories and languages, the works awarded First Prize will be published in the latest issue of the periodical Antipodes which will be launched on the same day as the announcement of the results.
It should be noted that each competition entry can only be sent electronically by email to gaclitcomp@gmail.com. You can use the same email address to find out more about the competition rules and to receive an application to take part in the competition. Alternately, the registration form and competition rules can be downloaded from the GACL website at www.gacl.com.au
