The third international micro poetry competition international "Ocean Season" league notice
International continuous multilingual poetry competition
the award ceremony will be held at the Boao Asia Forum in Hainan.
As internet accessibility grows and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets gain their popularity increasingly, poems are being composed, shared and loved in a fashionable way characterized as "mini content" in real-time via social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Weibo, We chat and more. "mini creativity", "mini channel" and "mini interaction" have been the distribution trend of world poetry today.Recent years in China, short forms of poem like "3-line love poems", "Jie Ju" (a name inspired by Bruce Lee's JKD philosophy) and "miniature poems" have drawn massive attention and become hot topics in discussions around poetry. If we observe internationally, since Japanese Haiku being accepted by non-Japanese speaking countries broadly, a sign that such short form poetry has been welcomed as "fresh air" worldwide and was recognized as an important part of world poetry.To go with the trend and encourage international exchange, Initiated by The Boao International Poetry Festival, the World poetry Network and Huana Shengda Film and television Culture media Group Co., Ltd. and International Poetry Translation and Research Centre decided to co-host the third international Micro Poetry Competition. The "International Micro poetry Competition" is divided into three seasons: "Earth", "ocean" and "sky". Now the "earth season" has ended and the "ocean season" starts today. The specific events of the competition are announced as follows:
I. Rules of Competition
1,Sky Season accepts submissions as of July 19, in 2020, the deadline will be August 18. All valid submissions will be displayed in one post on August 19, 2020 for 3 days. In case of any missed works please comment on the post for verification and update.
2,Free entry. No limitations on age, nationality or theme of work. Each poem must have a title with text in maximum five lines. No sequence poems nor multiple poems in one submission will be accepted.
3,Chinese entries must be sent by the author himself to the "International Poetry Contest" column of the International Poetry Forum of the World Poetry Network (www.worldpoetry.cn) (please register with your real name or pseudonym. The registered name must be the same as the author's name and must not contain letters or numbers). Sending to the contest mailbox is invalid.Please add the title of the season before the title of the entry. The format is: [Sky Season]+title of the entry.Each author can send his or her entries up to three times per season, but before the deadline, only the author himself or herself can send one of his or her entries to the "ocean season summary post" (the summary post is placed at the top of the international poetry competition column).Non-Chinese participating authors can take two ways to participate in the competition. The first way is the same as Chinese participating in the competition, registering with the World Poetry Network, and directly sending foreign language works to the international poetry competition column after passing the examination.The second way is to send the entries to the mailbox of the International Micro Poetry Contest (gjwsds2018@163.com).In both cases, please indicate the nationality before the name of the author of the entry.After the foreign language entries are translated into Chinese by the competition translation team, the foreign language Chinese will be posted to the "ocean season summary post" at the same time.Poets who have won platinum writer award, gold writer award and silver writer award in previous international micro poetry competitions can participate in the competition, but will not win any more prizes.
II, the award process
1. Starting from July 21, 2020, the "International Poetry Contest" column of the World Poetry Network will conduct two rounds of public preliminary and final voting on the entries for the sky season. Twenty winners will be selected. The winning entries will be published in the foreign language poetry media and the literature supplement of the Philippines' World Daily, the supplement of Indonesia's International Daily to the Window of World Culture, the poetry magazine of Taiwan's Genesis, Poetry Tide, and the mixed language version of International Poetry Translation, and will be included in the World Poetry Yearbook edited by the World Poetry Network.
2. Winners of each season's winning award are eligible to participate in the International League.The tournament will be held in the form of proposition + choice. The judges of the International League will vote to select the third "International Poem Award" and present the award at the Boao Forum for Asia.
3. The organizer will invite well-known poets, translators and critics to form the international league judging panel and the season final judging panel (the list will be distributed separately). The website editors will form the season preliminary judging panel (the list will be distributed separately) to conduct public voting on the entries of the three seasons and the international league.
III. Award Setting
The third "International Micro Poetry Award" includes one platinum writer award, two gold writers award and three silver writers award. The organizers will issue prizes, trophies and certificates.Ten outstanding writers will be awarded trophies and certificates by the organizers.
The first International Microcosmic Contest was launched in March 2018. Four seasons of competitions were held one after another, namely, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic seasons. A total of 86 domestic and foreign poets won the season winning prizes.On October 16, 2018, the International League was launched, and 75 poets took part in the competition according to the rules.After 22 international league judges voted, one platinum writer, four gold writers, seven silver writers and 13 outstanding writers were selected.The second International Microcosmic Contest was launched in July 2019. Three seasons of competitions were held one after another, namely, the earth season, the ocean season and the sky season. A total of 67 domestic and foreign poets won the season award.On October 31, 2019, the International League was launched, and 62 poets took part in the competition according to the rules.After voting by 17 international league judges, one platinum writer, three gold writers, three silver writers and nine outstanding writers were selected.The two "major competitions" have already held an award ceremony at the Boao Forum for Asia, awarding prizes and trophies to the award-winning poets.The winning entries of the season and the league have been published in domestic and foreign media such as Poetry Tide magazine, Taiwan's Genesis Poetry magazine, Philippine's World Daily Literature Supplement, Indonesia's International Daily World Cultural Window Supplement, and mixed language version of International Poetry Translation. A number of network strength poets have been discovered.
Organizing Committee of the 3rd International Microcosmic Contest
July 19, 2020
Sponsor and Organizer of the Third International Microcosmic Contest
Initiate:
Boao International Poetry Festival (China)
Host:
World Poetry Network (World Poetry Campaign Chinese Website)
Huana Shengda Film and Television Cultural Media Group Co., Ltd. (China)
International Poetry Translation Research Center (China)
Co-sponsored:
"Poetry Tide" Magazine (China)
The herald publisher (Australia)
Genesis Poetry Magazine (Taiwan, China)
"Yalu River Huaxia Poetry" Magazine (China)
KELIANO Poetry (Greece)
POMEZIA-NOTIZIE Poetry (Italy)
‘’World Daily Literary’’ Supplement (Philippines)
"International Daily" Supplement of The Window of World Cultural (Indonesia)
‘’Chinese Poet’’ Editorial Department (China)
