[Reader-list] The Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2009

[Vivek Narayanan]

The Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2009

Call for Entries

Entries are invited from young poets in India writing in English for the 
inaugural 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 annually 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. Five (5) different 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
c/o Study in India Program
University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad 500046
rayaproltrust at gmail.com

Deadline: September 1, 2009

The winner will be announced latest by the first week of October and 
arrangements for the travel and accommodation for the person chosen for 
the award will be made by the Trust and the Department of English, 
University of Hyderabad.

The Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust was started in the year 2000 to 
perpetuate the memory of the poet and also promote Indian writing in 
English. Srinivas Rayaprol (1925-1998), the son of the famous Telugu 
poet Rayaprolu Subba Rao, is considered one of the significant 
personalities of the early Indian English Poetry in India. His three 
major volumes of poetry are Bones and Distances, Married Love and Other 
Poems, and Selected Poems, all published by Writers’ Workshop in Calcutta.

Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust Department of English, University of 
Hyderabad