Announcement: 5th Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize - Call for Entries

I had meant to post this earlier; my apologies to everyone who's come to the blog in recent days looking for announcements. Here it is in full:

Entries are invited from young poets in India writing in English for the fifth Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize. 

The Prize was instituted by the Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust to recognize excellence in poetry written in English and is being administered jointly by the Department of English, University of Hyderabad.  The prize consisting of a cash award of Rs.10,000 and a citation will be presented at a literary event in Hyderabad in the month of October 2013.  The entries will be judged by a distinguished jury of poets and literary personalities.

Entries are invited from Indian citizens between 20-40 years and writing poetry in English.

Entries must include:

1.   Three (3) different, unpublished poems written by the applicant;

2.   Evidence of age; Scanned copy of passport/driver's license/pan card/voter id/aadhar

3.   Complete contact information (including phone numbers and email addresses).

Note: Please do not put your name on the poems to be submitted to the jury members.

Entries must reach:

Dr. Aparna Rayaprol

Convener, Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize

Director, Study in India Program

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad AP 500046

rayaproltrust@gmail.com

Deadline: August 31, 2013

Entries invited

It's that time of year again (and these days I know when people land up on my blog searching for Srinivas Rayaprol) so mark your calendars for deadlines, sort through your poetry and remind your publishers:

The 2012 Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize [pdf link] and the 2012 Shakti Bhatt First Book Award invite entries.

Good luck!

Aditi Rao wins the Srinivas Rayaprol Prize 2011

From the Rayaprol Trust announcement:

Twenty-six year old Aditi Rao has been declared the winner of the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize for 2011. 

A writer, educator, and activist, Aditi has spent the last eight years traveling between India, Argentina, Mexico, and the United States; all the places, cultures, and languages she has encountered on this journey have had a profound influence on her writing and her life. Aditi currently lives in New Delhi, where she works as a consultant for non-profit organizations in the field of peace education, facilitates creative writing workshops at educational institutions, and carves out time for her twin passions of poetry and pottery. She holds a MFA degree in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College (New York).

The Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize was instituted by the Hyderabad-based Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust to recognize excellence in poetry written in English and is jointly administered by the Department of English, University of Hyderabad.  This year a jury, consisting of poet, fiction writer, translator, critic, and IIT-Madras faculty K. Srilata, Prof. Syed Mujeebuddin and Prof. Sachidananda Mohanty of the University of Hyderabad, selected Aditi Rao from a field of 200 poets in the age group of 20-40 years from all over the country.

I couldn't find Rao's poems anywhere else except on her blog. Here they are. 

Poetry Announcements: Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2011 and TFA

Been slack on putting up these announcements, but there's time.

1. The 2011 Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize: Call for Entries

Entries are invited from young poets in India writing in English for the third

Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize. 

The Prize was instituted by the Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust to recognize excellence in poetry written in English and is being administered jointly by the Department of English, University of Hyderabad.  The prize consisting of a cash award of Rs.10,000 and a citation will be presented at a literary event in Hyderabad in the month of October.  The entries will be judged by a distinguished jury of poets and literary personalities.

Entries are invited from all Indian citizens between 20-40 years old and writing poetry in English.

Entries must include:

1.   Three (3) different, unpublished poems written by the applicant;

2.   Evidence of age;

3.   Complete contact information (including phone numbers and email addresses).

Note: Please do not put your name on the poems to be submitted to the jury members.

Entries must reach:

Dr. Aparna Rayaprol

Convener, Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize

Director, Study in India Program

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad AP 500046

rayaproltrust@gmail.com

Deadline: September 10, 2011

2. TFA: Toto Funds the Arts Awards 2012 invites submissions

Details here.

Hemant Mohapatra wins the 2010 Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize

Hemant Mohapatra has won the 2nd Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize. Congratulations, Hemant!

I've registered the anxiety to know the results for the last several days; many folks turn up on this blog searching for 'winner srinivas rayaprol prize'. You search ends here now, people.

Here's the announcement via mail from Aparna Rayaprol:

Twenty-nine year old Hemant Mohapatra has been chosen the winner of the second Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize.  An engineer by profession, Hemant Mohapatra studied at IIT-Bombay and University of Cincinnati.  With a childhood surrounded by the Himalayan and Shivalik ranges, he started writing poetry at the age of 18. 

A winner of the Harper Collins (India) Poetry Prize for 2008-2009, Mohapatra was also on the shortlist for the TFA Creative Writing Awards, 2010.  He has published his poetry in various literary journals of repute. 

The Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize was instituted by the Hyderabad-based Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust to recognize excellence in poetry written in English and is jointly administered by the Department of English, University of Hyderabad.  This year a distinguished jury, consisting of the poet Jeet Thayil, Prof. Sailaja Pingali and Prof. Sachidananda Mohanty of the University of Hyderabad, selected Hemant Mohapatra among 150 entries received from poets in the age group of 20-40 years all over the country.  Others shortlisted by the jury include: Krishnakumar Sankaran, Arka Mukhopadhyay, and Deepika Arwind.

The Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust was started in the year 2000 to perpetuate the memory of the poet, Srinivas Rayaprol (a.k.a. R.S. Marthandam, 1925-1998), who was one of the significant personalities of the early Indian English Poetry in India.  The inaugural prize was awarded last year to young Aditi Machado, who is currently in the United States for a creative writing course.

The award, consisting of a citation and Rs.10,000 cash prize, will be presented to the winner by well-known poet Keki Daruwalla in January at a literary event in Hyderabad.

Some of Hemant's poems can be found here and here.

The 2010 Srinivas Rayaprol Prize Announcement

Deadline 1 September 2010.

Details in the poster.

Aditi Machado wins the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize

Via email from Aparna Rayaprol:

The Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust

&

Department of English, University of Hyderabad

Invite you to the presentation of the inaugural

Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize

to

ADITI MACHADO

Presentation by: Padmabhushan

Prof. Shiv K. Kumar

Chief Guest:

Sudeep Sen, poet and editor, Atlas

Poetry Reading:

Aditi Machado

RSVP:

9490317318/rayaproltrust@gmail.com

to

Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 5.00 pm

Saptaparni, Road No. 8, Banjara Hills

Congrats Aditi!