Segora Competitions
How to enter
No entry forms are needed for any of our competitions.
Please send your details on a separate title sheet to include:
Name
Address
Email
Tel.
Paypal ID number if appropriate
Word count (if prose)
Please tell us where you heard about the competition.
How to pay:
Postal entries should be accompanied by a cheque made out to J.A.Simms and sent to the address below:
Segora Competition, Le Moulin de l’Arche, 79150 St. Clémentin, Deux-Sèvres, France.
Entry may be made via Paypal. Please note - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay using this method. Simply go to Paypal's website and use the following email address as the recipient: gordon.simms@aliceadsl.fr
Guidelines:
In all our competitions entries should be the exclusive work of the entrant
Entries must be previously unpublished and not already accepted for publication.
Entries must be accompanied by the appropriate fee(s).
This year all prize-winning entries will be read at the bilingual LitFest dinner with Helen Dunmore, 1st September 2012 at Les Quatre Saisons, Saint Clémentin.
SHORT STORY (prizes of £150, £50, £30)
Deadline: 31st May 2012
Word count between 1,500 and 3,000 (exclusive of title)
Please use at least 12 point font, double spaced, in a clear type-face
Entries must be accompanied by a separate title sheet as above
Entry fee: £5 single entry, £10.50 for two, £15 for three (3 PAYPALS)
VIGNETTE (1st prize £30, with £10 for commended entries)
Deadline: 31st May 2012
The vignette is a word-picture. It can be insightful, poignant, exciting, amusing or shocking. It may encapsulate a moment of discovery, or be a precise snapshot conveying something memorable about a character or an event. The territory is somewhere between a poem and a short story but write it as prose.
Maximum word count: 300 (exclusive of title)
It is not necessary to double space but please use at least 12 point font in a clear typeface.
Entries must be accompanied by a separate title sheet as above
Entry fee: £3.50 single entry, £6 for two. Add £2 for each subsequent entry.
POETRY (prizes of £150, £50 and £30)
Deadline: 7th July 2012
Maximum number of lines: 40 (excluding title)
Poems may be in any form or in free verse
Please use at least a 12 point font in a clear typeface
Entries must be accompanied by a separate title sheet as above
Entry fee: £3.50 for single entry, £6 for two. Add £2 for each subsequent entry
THE SEGORA JUDGES
Segora Short Story Competition 2012: Judge Graham Minett
Graham Minett writes: After many years of dabbling at writing, I opted to work part-time in my current post and begin an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. I completed my degree, gaining a distinction for the dissertation under the guidance of novelist Alison MacLeod, and almost immediately won the Segora Short Story Competition in 2008 with ‘On the Way Out’.
Since then I have been long-listed for the Bridport Prize in 2009 with ‘Frank and the Pariah’ and was then selected as winner of this year’s Chapter One Novel competition with ‘Legacy’. The prize was for me to work with an editor. The novel has now been completed and is with the agency.
Segora Vignette Competition 2012: Bernard Lord
Bernard Lord’s poetry has appeared in Decanto, Pulsar, Fire and The French Literary Review. He has been long-listed for the Fish short story prize and runner up in the Global short story competition. Two poetry collections In a Cerulean Sky and Ratios of Approximation have been published by Through the Mill and a third is due in 2012 to be launched at the Bilingual LitFest in Saint Clémentin.
In 2009 he edited Letters from Brazil (letters and photographs discovered after the tragic death of Pauline Lord in 1990) recording her time as a nurse in Brazil in the early 1970s. His latest venture The Little Book of Curiosity is a collection of poetry, musings, memorabilia and philosophical reflections interspersed with photographs illustrating the author’s varied life.
Segora Poetry Competition 2012: Katherine Gallagher
Katherine Gallagher is a widely-published poet with five full-length collections of poetry, most recently Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems (Arc Publications, 2010) - 'its natural territory the exotic and unknown, the fringe and carnivalesque’ Jane Holland, Poetry Review. Born in Australia, Katherine has lived in North London since 1979. She also writes for children and her poems are published in many children’s anthologies.
From 1971-79 she lived in Paris. In 1994 her translation from the French of Jean-Jacques Celly’s prizewinning Le Somnambule aux Yeux d’Argile (The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay) was published by Forest Books (London). ‘Gallagher’s translation is lucid and admirably preserves the spirit of the French original’. John Burnside, Agenda.
Katherine will be reading and leading workshops at the Litfest in Saint Clémentin including a unique bilingual workshop featuring The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay.
www.katherine-gallagher.com
No entry forms are needed for any of our competitions.
Please send your details on a separate title sheet to include:
Name
Address
Tel.
Paypal ID number if appropriate
Word count (if prose)
Please tell us where you heard about the competition.
How to pay:
Postal entries should be accompanied by a cheque made out to J.A.Simms and sent to the address below:
Segora Competition, Le Moulin de l’Arche, 79150 St. Clémentin, Deux-Sèvres, France.
Entry may be made via Paypal. Please note - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay using this method. Simply go to Paypal's website and use the following email address as the recipient: gordon.simms@aliceadsl.fr
Guidelines:
In all our competitions entries should be the exclusive work of the entrant
Entries must be previously unpublished and not already accepted for publication.
Entries must be accompanied by the appropriate fee(s).
This year all prize-winning entries will be read at the bilingual LitFest dinner with Helen Dunmore, 1st September 2012 at Les Quatre Saisons, Saint Clémentin.
SHORT STORY (prizes of £150, £50, £30)
Deadline: 31st May 2012
Word count between 1,500 and 3,000 (exclusive of title)
Please use at least 12 point font, double spaced, in a clear type-face
Entries must be accompanied by a separate title sheet as above
Entry fee: £5 single entry, £10.50 for two, £15 for three (3 PAYPALS)
VIGNETTE (1st prize £30, with £10 for commended entries)
Deadline: 31st May 2012
The vignette is a word-picture. It can be insightful, poignant, exciting, amusing or shocking. It may encapsulate a moment of discovery, or be a precise snapshot conveying something memorable about a character or an event. The territory is somewhere between a poem and a short story but write it as prose.
Maximum word count: 300 (exclusive of title)
It is not necessary to double space but please use at least 12 point font in a clear typeface.
Entries must be accompanied by a separate title sheet as above
Entry fee: £3.50 single entry, £6 for two. Add £2 for each subsequent entry.
POETRY (prizes of £150, £50 and £30)
Deadline: 7th July 2012
Maximum number of lines: 40 (excluding title)
Poems may be in any form or in free verse
Please use at least a 12 point font in a clear typeface
Entries must be accompanied by a separate title sheet as above
Entry fee: £3.50 for single entry, £6 for two. Add £2 for each subsequent entry
THE SEGORA JUDGES
Segora Short Story Competition 2012: Judge Graham Minett
Graham Minett writes: After many years of dabbling at writing, I opted to work part-time in my current post and begin an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. I completed my degree, gaining a distinction for the dissertation under the guidance of novelist Alison MacLeod, and almost immediately won the Segora Short Story Competition in 2008 with ‘On the Way Out’.
Since then I have been long-listed for the Bridport Prize in 2009 with ‘Frank and the Pariah’ and was then selected as winner of this year’s Chapter One Novel competition with ‘Legacy’. The prize was for me to work with an editor. The novel has now been completed and is with the agency.
Segora Vignette Competition 2012: Bernard Lord
Bernard Lord’s poetry has appeared in Decanto, Pulsar, Fire and The French Literary Review. He has been long-listed for the Fish short story prize and runner up in the Global short story competition. Two poetry collections In a Cerulean Sky and Ratios of Approximation have been published by Through the Mill and a third is due in 2012 to be launched at the Bilingual LitFest in Saint Clémentin.
In 2009 he edited Letters from Brazil (letters and photographs discovered after the tragic death of Pauline Lord in 1990) recording her time as a nurse in Brazil in the early 1970s. His latest venture The Little Book of Curiosity is a collection of poetry, musings, memorabilia and philosophical reflections interspersed with photographs illustrating the author’s varied life.
Segora Poetry Competition 2012: Katherine Gallagher
Katherine Gallagher is a widely-published poet with five full-length collections of poetry, most recently Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems (Arc Publications, 2010) - 'its natural territory the exotic and unknown, the fringe and carnivalesque’ Jane Holland, Poetry Review. Born in Australia, Katherine has lived in North London since 1979. She also writes for children and her poems are published in many children’s anthologies.
From 1971-79 she lived in Paris. In 1994 her translation from the French of Jean-Jacques Celly’s prizewinning Le Somnambule aux Yeux d’Argile (The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay) was published by Forest Books (London). ‘Gallagher’s translation is lucid and admirably preserves the spirit of the French original’. John Burnside, Agenda.
Katherine will be reading and leading workshops at the Litfest in Saint Clémentin including a unique bilingual workshop featuring The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay.
www.katherine-gallagher.com
