Update on the situation relating to the 2023 erbacce-prize for poetry which opened for submissions on January 1st 2023 and closed April 30th 2023 at midnight.
OUR LONG LIST IS PRINTED BELOW!
(Yes we work FAST; editing as we go along)
Every single year since we began organising the erbacce-prize for poetry in 2004, the number of submissions
has grown and now we can safely claim to be THE BIGGEST POETRY COMPETITION IN THE WORLD.
In 2023, over a four months period, we received more than TWELVE THOUSAND
admissible/valid submissions from every corner of the globe
(That meant we had over SIXTY thousand+ pages of poetry to read)
The erbacce-team of volunteers are proud that the erbacce-prize for poetry is now established,
without a shadow of a doubt, as
the premier poetry-prize world-wide
Every single submission is filtered and then sent to the selection panel who judge every entry BLIND... You can check out the selection-team-members HERE and further down this page you can see the long-list of poets which were judged to be worthy of further consideration for our prestigious prize and many of these will be selected for inclusion in a future erbacce-journal.
The poets. listed in our long-list below, made the cut from many thousands of submissions and are thus
among the Crème De La Crème of poets world-wide; each and every one is highly-commended.
WE HAVE A RESULT! SEE BELOW!
The final result of the selection panel's deliberations will appear here and so if your name appears below;
book-mark this page:
Winner of the 2023 erbacce-prize for poetry is:
Michael Wilkinson from Castleford England
Michael wins; a contract with erbacce-press for publication of a perfect-bound collection of his poetry which
will proclaim on the cover 'Winner of the erbacce-prize for poetry 2023'.
We will pay all costs and registration fees for Nielsen and ISBN etc and will supply key-universities with copies
of the book as per legal requirements and we will also set up a personal page on our site for Michael,
pay author-royalties on sales at 20% and send free copies to him also.
Featured poets will be:
Anuradha Vijayakrishnan from Dubai, UAE
Hsiang-cheng Hsu from Texas USA
Lisa Lopresti from Bristol England
Stuti Sinha from Dubai UAE
Each of the four poets named will have their poetry featured in a future edition of the prestigious erbacce-journal
and they will have the opportunity to write either an extended 'about me' OR an essay/statement
wherein they can sound off about any aspect of the literary arts that they feel strongly about.
We will also of course supply each featured-poet with a copy of the erbacce journal which is
a 96 pp perfect-bound distributed twice a year (Autumn and Spring)
PLEASE NOTE ALL SELECTIONS WERE MADE 'BLIND'.
THIS IS IMPORTANT; THE SELECTORS WERE NOT SWAYED BY 'BIG NAME' POETS;
THE QUALITY OF THE SUBMISSION IS THE ONLY THING THEY CONSIDERED.
And what that means is that none of the panel could see the names of the poets who submitted a five-page entry: submissions came to a neutral email and there the names and all details were removed from the submission and
an identity number was allocated prior to the submissions before being sent to members of the selection panel.
You can check if you are included on the long list below where each poet is listed alphabetically by first name. If you name is NOT on the list please do remember that we had record submissions world-wide, the selectors had a difficult time and it could be your submission lost out by one single vote. Overall every Panel-member expressed genuine astonishment at the exceptionally high quality of the submissions; poetry is alive world-wide and this despite phony competitions trying to rip-off poets by asking them to pay to have their poems read or to pay to enter dubious poetry competitions. Ask yourself why it is that these people ask you to pay them to read your poems? It stinks! It treats poets with contempt; it effectively says 'Send us a poem you have spent hours, maybe months, crafting... and if you pay us five-quid we MAY actually read it.' No! No! No! You can NOT disrespect poets like that! Ugh; it infuriates us all here at erbacce-press. We urge genuine poets to
NEVER EVER PAY TO ENTER A POETRY COMPETITION
Also; check the big names who have been selected below and you will see that they are among the finest in the world.
A few facts that might interest you;
Bookmark this page; maybe start getting together your submissions for 2024... and PLEASE consider purchasing a subscription to the erbacce poetry journal which we publish bi-annually. We can only offer this FREE TO ENTER prestigious prize annually if we have subscriptions to the journal; we get no money from anywhere else, not from the arts-council or the lottery or anyone because we want to remain independent and dedicated to poets and poetry. Please support us.
FINALLY; Thank you ALL so much for your submissions, every single one was read and most were enjoyed, we couldn't continue to offer this 100% FREE TO ENTER competition annually if it wasn't for those of you who support our co-operative publishing house by subscribing to the erbacce-journal. (FREE download sample-copy available) If you don't subscribe; please consider doing so. ...we repeat again; if your name is listed below you are a VERY special poet; the world needs poets and poetry, so whatever you do; keep up the good work...
In the long lists below (arranged in alphabetical order by first name) are poets from; Croatia, Scotland, Italy, USA, China, Denmark, Portugal, Ireland, India, Poland, Austria, El Salvador, Nigeria, England, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, Spain, New Zealand, Philippines, France, UAE, Finland, Germany and Argentina. These are the long lists; selected from among many thousands of submissions that stemmed (quite literally) from every country in the world.
Aaron Lembo; Maidstone England
Adele Evershed; Wilton USA
Aidan Fadden; Roma Italy
Ailish NicPhaidin; Florida USA
Alastair Hesp; Copenhagen Denmark
Alejandra Cabezas; Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador
Angela Christopher, Lancaster England
Anne Marie Wells; Springfield USA
Anyély Gómez-Dickerson; Honolulu USA
Becky Cherriman; Leeds England
Bernadette Ingrid Yeun; Scarborough England
Bibhu Padhi; Odisha India
Bill Yarrow; Illinois USA
Blossom Hibbert; Nottingham England
Brenda Yates; California USA
Bruce McRae; Salt Spring Island Canada
Caitlin Cacciatore; NY USA
Caroline Bracken; Dun Laoghaire Ireland
Catherine Lee; Texas USA
Charis Horsley; Buckinghamshire England
Charlotte Murray; Leeds England
Christine Macfarlane; Wiltshire England
Ciaran McDermott; Stirling Scotland
Claire Thom; Andalucia Spain
Colin Pink; London England
Constance Stadler; Virginia USA
Corey Bryan; Atlanta USA
Craig R Kirchner; Florida USA
Dana DeFranco; California USA
Daphne Harries; Pocklinton England
Dave Kurley; Leiria Portugal
David Holper; CA USA
David R. Cravens; Colorado USA
Dele Oladeji; London England
Derek Selle; Canterbury England
Dominic James; Gloucester England
Donna Faulkner; Rangiora New Zealand
Ellen Zhang; California USA
Ellery Washington; Florida USA
Elmira Elvazova; Edinburgh Scotland
Emma M Swailes; Leeds England
Eve Naden; Crewe England
Federica Bueti; Berlin Germany
Fiona Sinclair; Kent England
Francis K Johnson, Coventry England
Frank McMahon; Cirencester England
Geoff Sawers; Reading England
Gordon Kennedy; Glasgow Scotland
Grace Kay; Leyland England
Gus Reynolds; Blacksburg USA
Hannele Luhtasela; Helsinki Finland
Henry Bohan; NY USA
Iryna Shashkina; Bellingham USA
Ivan Marović; Mravince Croatia
Iwan Hedd Jones; Salford England
Jack Donahue; NY USA
James B. Nicola; NY USA
Jane Katherine Angué; La Tour Sur Orb France
Jane Thomas; Oxford England
Jean-Denis Couillard Hale; Norwood USA
Jeff Gallagher; East Grinstead England
Jennifer Kearns; Vienna, Austria
John Lanyon; Chipping Norton England
John Oberholzer; Brackley England
Joseph Byrd; Oregon USA
Juliana Ongking; Manila, Philippines
Katy Aisenberg; Sommerville USA
Kevin Meehan; Derry Ireland
Kexin Huang; Jiangsu, China
Kwasi Shade; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Landon Jones; California USA
Lara Frankena; London England
Lawrence Mathias; London England
LindaAnn LoSchiav; NY USA
Łukasz Zwoliński; Śląskie Poland
Mantz Yorke; Manchester England
Margaret Royall; Notts England
Marian de Vooght; Wivenhoe England
Marjory Woodfield; Christchurch New Zealand
Mark Carr; County Durham England
Martin Heavisides; Ontario Canada
Martin Rieser; Bristol England
Maxim D. Shrayer; Massachusetts USA
Maxine Sinclair; Norfolk England
Maya Olso; California USA
Megha Sood; New Jersey USA
Michael Baldwin; Texas USA
Michael Philip Castro; Florida USA
Michael Sharp; Puerto Rico USA
Mike Rogers; Somerset England
Molly Lanzarotta; Massachusetts USA
Mukut Borpujari; Assam, India
Eve Naden; Crewe England
Nancy Cook; Minnesota USA
Neha Parthasarathy; Tamil Nadu, India
Niall McGrath; Co Antrim Ireland
Oisín Breen; Edinburgh Scotland
Osahon Oka; Edo Estate Nigeria
Paola Tavoletti; Rome Italy
Peter Allmond; Charlbury England
Peter Branson; Stoke-on-Trent England
Pritha Mukherjee; Kolkata India
Purbasha Roy; Jharkhand India
Raamy Nadim; Durham England
Richard T. S. Smith; Cumbria England
Robert Verdon; Canberra Australia
Roderick Manson; Perthshire Scotland
Roger Elkin; Staffordshire England
Sam Butler; London England
Sandhya Mahadeva; New Jersey USA
Sanjeev Sethi; Mumbai India
Sarah Davies; Bedford England
Scott Thomas Outlar; Maryland USA
Stella Phipps; London UK
Stephen Page; Buenos Aires Argentina
Stuart Flynn; Dublin Ireland
Sutputra Radhey; London England
Sydney Conteh; Liverpool England
Sylvia Anne Telfer; South Lanarkshire Scotland
Timothy Marshal-Nichols; Wirral England
Yael Aldana; Florida USA
Yasmin Inkersole; Oxfordshire England
Ziggy Cooper; Cambridge England