tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post5394527650203225076..comments2024-03-29T14:45:32.326+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: U of Canberra VC's International Poetry PrizeDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-81313706596254280072016-03-07T08:49:17.968+13:002016-03-07T08:49:17.968+13:00Yes, I'm sorry about having been so late off t...Yes, I'm sorry about having been so late off the mark in mentioning it: any entrants from now on will have to pay $20 rather than $15.<br /><br />There are still four months left to submit poems for the contest, though.Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-43678617881684678252016-03-06T22:14:40.936+13:002016-03-06T22:14:40.936+13:00Good one! But you've put the cart before the h...Good one! But you've put the cart before the horse here a bit Jack! It has closed for the discounted entries. But, well, I simply don't get AUD$15,000 lucky...It flickered for a moment (the money) but no, would need a lot more time. I have entered a few competitions with no success (in the past). It doesn't disappoint me, nor do rejections from magazines, or criticism. It did when I started out (again about 1988 or so). But then one gets case hardened...after my mother died and various other things I became more or less indifferent. But I do like to see the odd thing in print etc<br /><br />But you will get a lot of entries at that prize money level for sure. <br /><br />Enjoy the experience!<br /><br />But I did judge a poetry competition for the Auckland International Writers Group (mostly older people). Leicester Kyle had done it the year previously. I actually found it very interesting. I got all the poems in order, after a lot of thinking. I also wrote about every poem. I think there were more than twenty. (There was no money at all involved). A friend of our family got second prize. <br /><br />That sounds like corruption, but it wasn't, overall it WAS I thought the next best to the winner. I felt if I commented on all poems I could make positive comments on them all, and I did. This was appreciated by a young woman who helped out at the weekly poetry meetings. <br /><br />I had given some "lectures" on creative writing. I did quite well, but I tended to, well you know me, to divagater ! That said it was, overall, an interesting experience. <br /><br />Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.com