Pure Poetry Ballarat was a resounding success last year with a standing room only crowd at the Art Gallery of Ballarat for the final performance. It’s on again this year and is expected to be even more popular, so get your poems in to see if you’ll be selected for Pure Poetry 2010.
Part I: Mentoring opportunity
Eight emerging poets living in the City of Ballarat or the Hepburn, Golden Plains or Moorabool Shire Councils will be selected to participate in a 3-week mentoring program with renowned Castlemaine poet Ross Donlon. Submissions of original poetry are now being accepted.
Closing date for submissions: Monday 15 March
Part II: Pure Poetry Recital
Following the mentoring program, poets take to the stage to read their selected works in the celebratory Pure Poetry Recital accompanied by contemporary classical music and recent compositions by Ballarat’s Suzie May Camm and Melbourne’s Anthony Lyons, played live by professional musicians from Ballarat and Melbourne.
When: Sunday 18 April, 3 – 4.30pm Where: Art Gallery of Ballarat, Lydiard Street North
Part I SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Submission is open to emerging poets over the age of 18 years, who reside in the City of Ballarat, Hepburn, Moorabool or Golden Plains Shires
• ‘Emerging’ poets are those who have had fewer than 25 works published in print or online
• Entries must be the original work of the applicant, and not have been published or won a prize in a competition
• Entry fee is AUD$5 per submission, payable by money order/cheque/credit card to the mailing address below
• One submission per person. Fees will not be refunded
• All entries to be in English, single-spaced and using a standard 12 pt font such as Times New Roman
• Applicant’s name must not appear on the poems
• The Application & Consent Form must accompany your submission, available below
• Entries must be submitted in hard copy to the mailing address below
• Entries postmarked after 15 March 2010 will not be considered
• No correspondence entered into, the judge’s decision is final
• Successful applicants will be notified by email, and results announced on this website
• Selected poets will read their work/s in the Pure Poetry Recital at the Art Gallery of Ballarat on 18 April
• Copyright remains with the author

Mailing address for submissions:
Pure Poetry Ballarat
PO Box 2738, Bakery Hill, Victoria 3354, AUSTRALIA
Ballarat Writers Inc is a non-profit organisation, Incorporation No. (A001874SK
Click here for application and consent form

Supported by the Victorian Writers Centre, the City of Ballarat, the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Allans Music and Regional Arts Victoria