International literary competitions for the month of April

If a few days ago we brought you some national literary competitions, today we present 4 international literary competitions for the month of April. Take a notebook and pencil and write down the following requirements that they ask for in each one of them ... Good luck if you decide to participate! Remember that if you don't try, you will never know what would have happened.

Much encouragement already for them!

Sergio Pitol Short Story Award 2016 (Mexico)

• Genre: Story
• Prize: $ 10 000.00 (ten thousand pesos) and edition
• Open to: students who have current registration in any of the technical or bachelor's degrees of the public or private universities of the country.
• Organizing entity: Universidad Veracruzana
• Country of the convening entity: Mexico
• Closing date: 08/04/2016

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• They will be able to participate all students who have current enrollment in any of the technical or licensing careers of the public or private universities of the country.
• The works must be delivered in triplicate, double-spaced, in 12-point Arial font and the extension may not be less than five pages or more than ten.
• El theme in the essay, story and poetry categories it is free.
• In each case the texts must be unpublished, delivered in printed or electronic way, and of our own creation; in front of them you must specify the category in which you want to participate.
• They may compete in the three categories, as long as the author presents each of his works separately and accompanied by a different pseudonym.
• The texts must be accompanied by a sealed envelope on the outside of which appears the pseudonym of the contestant and inside the real data: name, address, telephone and email, as well as a photocopy of the valid registration ballot or the document that accredits him as a student in the terms of point 1. If they do not meet these requirements, they will be disqualified.
• La reception of the works It will be from February 29 to April 8 of this 280 05 business days, from 9:00 a.m. to 15:00 p.m., in Editorial Direction of the Veracruzana University, Hidalgo number 9, Downtown area, CP 91000, Xalapa, Veracruz. If the shipment is made by mail, the date of receipt will be considered the one corresponding to the stamp of the Postal Service.
• The qualifying jury will be made up of professionals of recognized prestige in each of the areas, whose names will be revealed at the time the ruling is published.
• The verdict of the qualifying jury will be final and will be published at the electronic address www.uv.mx/filu
• The jury will declare the award void in any of the categories if the materials do not have the required quality.
• The Awards per category will consist of: a) A single prize of $ 10 (ten thousand pesos) to the first place.

  b) A special publication of the winning works that will be inserted in the magazine La Palabra yel Hombre.

  c) A space at FILU 2015 for the winners of each category to read their work.

• The award date will be Saturday, April 30, within the FILU framework. The transportation expenses of the winners will be covered by the Universidad Veracruzana.

II Call for Furman 217 Magazine (USA)

• Genre: Short story, poetry, essay, comic
• Award: Publication
• Open to: no restrictions
• Organizing entity: Furman 217 Magazine
• Country of the convening entity: USA
• Closing date: 08/04/2016

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The critical-creative magazine Furman 217 arises at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, developed by a group of students from the Spanish and Portuguese department and also has the collaboration of students from other faculties and local and international creators. Furman 217 was born from the need to create more creative spaces within the academy or, in other words, to provide a space in which the academic can coexist with the creative in continuous dialogue. The magazine aims at polyphony and multilingualism, and that is why it includes stories, poems, interviews, short essays, illustrations, photographs, and does not impose a theme to follow. Although we accept any language, we are mainly looking for entries that enhance Spanish and Portuguese or languages ​​other than English.

• Each collaborator of texts will be able to send up to 2 contributionsEach contribution must not exceed 5 pages (double spaced and Times New Roman 12) and must be sent in .doc or .docx format.

• In the last edition, topics such as desire, travel, community, social justice, academia, the act of writing, music, memory, the city, places and technology were discussed, to name a few. The magazine includes texts in Spanish, Portuguese and English, so you are invited to send texts in other languages ​​such as French, Italian, Basque, Catalan, etc.
• Any theme or perspective is welcome.
• These can be stories, chronicles, short essays, poetry, interviews, comics, illustrations, photography, or whatever else comes to mind.
• La deadline To send any contribution is April 8, 2016.
• The call is opened to receive the materials that will be part of the second issue of the magazine.
• Each visual contributor You can send 1-6 contributions.
• All collaborators are asked to submit a short biographical note of no more than 100 words.
• All collaborations will be sent to magazinefurman217@gmail.com before April 8, 2016 (inclusive).
• To get an idea of ​​the project you can visit the website at furman217.com where you can also download the first edition of the magazine.

Poetry contest "Creating poetry" (Peru)

• Genre: Poetry
• Award: digital reader
• Open to: students from Campus Piura and Lima
• Organizing entity: Library of the University of Piura
• Country of the convening entity: Peru
• Closing date: 12/04/2016

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• Participants: UDEP undergraduate students from both campuses. Contestants may submit more than one collection of poems to the contest, as long as they do so under different pseudonyms.

• Topic: Free.

• Features: The compositions must be original and unpublished. They must not have been published by any print or digital medium.

• Format and extension: Between 30 to 60 verses distributed in one or two poems and on A4 sheet, Arial 12 font and double spaced.

• Presentation: Two manila envelopes must be delivered. The first must include the original with a pseudonym and a copy of the composition, also with a pseudonym. In the second envelope there should be a sheet with the following information:
  Full name and surname
  Pseudonym (so that the author can be identified)
  Poem title
  Student code
  Email

• Sealed envelopes must be delivered to the Library Circulation Area.

• Evaluation criteria: Originality, meaningful content, poetic (poetic resources, style, technique, unity and meaning) and spelling.

• Deadline: The last day to present them is April 12 for Piura and April 18 for Lima.

• Awards: First place: A digital reader; Second place: Complete poems by Antonio Machado; Third place: A consumer voucher for the UDEP cafeteria.

"Rafael Cadenas" National Young Poetry Contest (Venezuela)

• Genre: Poetry
• Prize: one hundred and fifty thousand bolivars (Bs 150.000,00) and publication in an anthology
• Open to: Venezuelans residing in the country, between 18 and 35 years of age
• Convening entity: Venezuelan Authors website
• Country of the convening entity: Venezuela
• Closing date: 15/042016

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• They will be able to participate young Venezuelans residing in the country, whose ages are between 18 and 35 years old. The contest is national in nature.
• The participant must present a single poem of its authorship, of free subject and unpublished character, without limit of extension and in Spanish language, signed with pseudonym and not previously awarded in any other contest.
• The poems will be written with single spacing, Times New Roman font and font size 12. They will be sent only electronically (in PDF format) to the mail autorvzlanos@gmail.com, including address, telephone and the clear image of the identity card of the author.
• El deadline for electronic receipt of the postulated poems will be between 12 am on Tuesday, March 1, and 11.59:15 pm on Friday, April 2016, XNUMX.
• The winning poems will be announced through the Venezuelan Authors website (www.autoresvzlanos.com.ve) and will be announced between April 15 and 21.
• The prizes will be awarded at a special event within the framework of the Chacao Reading Fair to be held in April.
• The finalists authorize Venezuelan Authors to the virtual or physical diffusion of their poems through their electronic submission.
• Awards: There will be a first prize of one hundred and fifty thousand bolivars (Bs 150.000,00), a second prize of one hundred thousand bolivars (Bs 100.000,00) and a third prize of fifty thousand bolivars (Bs 50.000,00). In addition, the poems corresponding to the fifteen (15) first places will be gathered in a publication that will be effective in the last quarter of 2016.

Will you participate in any?

Source: writers.org