The Rešetari Culture & Visual Arts Society is organising the XVII Rešetari Meeting of Poets on September 12th 2014. Saturday September 13th will see the promotion of the VI Collection of Poems by Young Poets and the presentation of the XVII Collection of Poems by Croatian Poets from the Emigrant Communities.
The organiser announces the Competition for the VI Collection of Poems by Young Poets living in the emigrant communities and young members of the Rešetari Culture & Visual Arts Society “2 9 2” literary section of Rešetari.
Authors should be under the age of 18 and each poet is eligible to participate with three poems. The poems are to be written in Standard Croatian or in a dialect of the Croatian language spoken in the region in which the poet lives. They should be written on a computer and submitted to the e-mail address or by typewriter on A4 format paper and submitted by post. The number of poems published in the collection depends entirely on the quality of the poems submitted. Works whose quality does not meet the established criteria will not be published. Works submitted will not be returned. Along with the poems every author should include his or her personal data (year of birth, school and grade they are attending, address of residence).
Young poets may submit their works at the latest by February 15th 2014 to the address of Rešetari Culture & Visual Arts Society (KLD Rešetari).
The sponsors of the collection of poetry are the Croatian Heritage Foundation, the Government of the Republic of Croatia, the Croatian Ministry of Culture, Brod-Posavina County and Anton Kikaš of Toronto, joined by co-sponsors the Municipality of Rešetari and the Psunj Leather Factory of Rešetari. The collection will be published by KLD Rešetari of Rešetari, editor Ivan De Villa (devillaivan@gmail.com).
The organiser also announces the Competition for the XVII Collection of Poems by Croatian Poets from the Emigrant Communities and members of the Rešetari Culture & Visual Arts Society “2 9 2” literary section of Rešetari.
Each poet is eligible to participate with three poems. The poems are to be written in Standard Croatian or in a dialect of the Croatian language spoken in the region in which the poet lives. They should be written on a computer and submitted to the e-mail address or by typewriter on A4 format paper and submitted by post (one poem – one page). The number of poems published in the collection depends entirely on the quality of the poems submitted. Works whose quality does not meet the established criteria will not be published. Works submitted will not be returned. Along with the poems every author should include a short biography of up to six sentences (date and year of birth, educational qualifications, current occupation, where works have been previously published, address of residence).
Authors may submit their works to the address of Rešetari Culture & Visual Arts Society (KLD Rešetari) at the latest by January 1st 2014.
The collection is sponsored by the CHF and Brod-Posavina County, joined by co-sponsors the local government of the Municipality of Rešetari. The collection will be published by KLD Rešetari of Rešetari, editor Ivan De Villa.
KLD “REŠETARI”
Vladimira Nazora 30
35 403 REŠETARI
C R O A T I A / H R V A T S K A
c/o “Rešetarački susret pjesnika”
Ivan De Villa
Fax no.: 00 385 35 333 111
Telephone: ++ 385 (0) 98 16 75 765
E-mail: devillaivan@gmail.com