Guidelines :
1. The prize is open to African poets,
defined as those who were born in
Africa, or who are nationals of an
African country, or whose parents are
African.
defined as those who were born in
Africa, or who are nationals of an
African country, or whose parents are
African.
2. The prize is open to African poets
who have not yet had a full-length
poetry book published. Self-
published poetry books, chapbooks
and pamphlets are exempt from this
stipulation.
3. Only poems written in English are
accepted. Poems translated into
English are also accepted with a
percentage of the prize going to the
translator.
4. The prize opens for submissions
from October 1st 2015 to November
30th 2015
5. Each entrant must submit 10
poems to be eligible, no more and no
less. There is no stipulation as to
the content of submitted poems.
6. The poems may have been
previously published or won previous
awards.
7. All entries must be submitted via
email only to BUAPP@brunel.ac.uk*.
An acknowledgement will be sent.
(Please note that email enquiries
about the rules will not be
answered.)
8. Under no circumstances can
alterations be made to poems once
entered.
9. Under no circumstances will the
organisers or judges enter into
discussions with entrants who have
submitted for the prize.
10. The prize organisers reserve the
right to not award the prize if, in the
judges’ opinion, such an action is
justified. The organisers also reserve
the right to split the prize if they
decide that more than one poet is
worthy of it.
11. The judges’ decision is final and
they will not enter into any
correspondence with entrants
regarding their decisions.
Rules: Poems
12. All poems must have a title.
14. Poems must be the original work
of the entrant.
15. Poems should be single spaced.
16. There is no stipulation regarding
font type and size.
17. Poems must be emailed in a
SINGLE word document attachment
(not PDF) – with an index cover
page which contains the entrants
name, nationality, country of birth,
full address including country of
permanent residence, personal email
address and telephone number.
18. The entire submission must be
written with black ink, no colours.
19. Individual poems received as
separate file attachments and poems
sent within the body of an email will
be automatically rejected with no
notification to the poet.
20. People who have submitted
previously for the prize can re-
submit again. People who have been
previously shortlisted for the prize
can re-submit but only with new
poems and no more than twice
within a four year period.
Rules: Winner Only
21.The winner must be available via
email to reply promptly to
correspondence. The winner will be
required to provide a biography and
photograph and to be available for
media interviews, either online, by
phone or, if geographically possible,
in person.
22. It will be helpful if the winner has
or creates a social media presence
but this is in no way a condition of
winning the prize.
23. The copyright of the winner’s
poems remains with the winning
poet.
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