THE BORDIGHERA POETRY PRIZE
http://www.gioseffi.com/Prize.html

No fee.
Deadline: postmarked by May 31, 2010
Prize: $1,000 plus publication in a bilingual edition by Bordighera.
Winners will be announced by October 30.

This competition seeks the best manuscripts of poetry in English by an American poet of Italian descent, to be translated upon selection by the judges into modern Italian, for the benefit of American poets of Italian ancestry and the preservation of the Italian language. The poet must be a U.S. citizen of Italian descent and surname or maiden surname.

To enter, submit ten sample pages of poetry in English. The final booklength manuscript should not exceed 48 pages to allow for up to 48 additional pages of Italian translation. Your poems may have appeared in magazines, anthologies or chapbooks. The publisher will commission a translator unless the author is qualified to do the translation.

Both the author and translator will share in the royalties per Bordighera's standard contract.