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Henry Lawson Heritage • Up to ten finalists may be chosen from the recorded entries –
poetry sections*
shortlisted entries will be notified ASAP
Festival – Literary Awards • Final judging, by means of live performance, will take place be-
fore a panel of judges on Saturday 6th June 2020 at the Prince
Henry Lawson Heritage Festival & Leonard Teale Memorial Perfor- of Wales Opera House, Mayne St, Gulgong, as part of the Annual
mance Poetry Competition 2020 Literary Awards, and a feature of the Gulgong Henry Lawson Her-
The 2020 Henry Lawson Heritage Festival will be held on the long itage Festival, held over Friday 5th to Monday 8th June 2020.
weekend 6th to 8th June 2020. • No microphones are to be used in the finals of this competition
Leonard Teale Performance Poetry and written sections awards – the venue is famous for its acoustic quality
presentations will be held on Saturday afternoon in the Gulgong • Finalists are urged to book accommodation as soon as possi-
Opera House ble to avoid disappointment as the Henry Lawson Festival is ex-
Verse Category tremely popular .
Open Written Poetry $500 1st Prize each x 2 – Humorous and Tra- • Finalists must be present, and perform, to be considered for
ditional the award. Poems must be memorised for the finals, not read.
Emerging Written Poetry $200 1st prize Memorisation will be part of the judging criteria.
Leonard Teale Performance Poetry $500 1st Prize each x 2 – Hu- • Poetry entries may be photocopied.
morous and Traditional • The decision of the judge/judges will be final and no corre-
Emerging Performance Poetry $200 1st prize spondence will be entered into.
• Please include business size SSAE if a copy of the results is re-
In 2020 a new prize structure will be introduced: quired .
Champion Open Written Poetry 1st prize $500 + “Henry Lawson” • Please make cheques/money orders payable to Henry Lawson
Statuette valued at $200 Society of NSW Inc.
Champion Open Performance Poetry 1st prize $500 + “Henry Law- • Post Entries to Henry Lawson Literary Awards 2020 PO Box 235,
son” Statuette valued at $200 Gulgong NSW 2852
Champion Emerging Poetry 1st prize $200 + “Loaded Dog” Statu- • For more information contact Literacy Awards Co-ordinator
ette valued at $200 Alan Walker
Prose Category Email: henrylawsongulgong@yahoo.com.au or alwalker@winsoft.
Open Written Prose $500 1st Prize each x 2 – Humorous and Traditional net .au
Emerging Written Prose $200 1st prize Bank Details for direct payments
Champion Open Written Prose 1st prize $500 + “Henry Lawson” Henry Lawson Society of NSW Inc No 1 A/c
Statuette valued at $200 Commonwealth Bank Gulgong BSB 062549 A/c No 00900785
Champion Emerging Prose 1st prize $200 + “Loaded Dog” Statuette ABN-32438301774
valued at $200
ENTRIES FORMS AVAILABLE on Facebook and http://www.hen- WHERE IS GLADSTONE?
rylawsongulgong.org.au/ This historic town located beside the Rocky River, is situated in the
CLOSING DATE April 10th 2020 lower Flinders Ranges 208km north of Adelaide and 38km east of
General information about the Gulgong Henry Lawson Society can Port Pirie. Gladstone was a major railway hub in the past and the
be found on Facebook and http://www.henrylawsongulgong.org.au/ early childhood home of C.J. Dennis who started his education at
Conditions of Entry: Gladstone Primary School.
• Entries close 10th April 2020 and should be mailed to Literary
Awards, Henry Lawson Society of NSW Inc., Laura Literary Awards
PO Box 235, Gulgong NSW 2852. No entries postmarked after
this date will be accepted.
• A completed entry form and entry fee must accompany each $780 PRIZE MONEY
entry. Multiple entries may be listed on the entry form. The Awards are co-ordinated by local writing group Rocky River
• Entry fee of $10 per entry or date of payment must accompany ‘Riters and proudly sponsored by The Flinders News and Rocky Riv-
entry form. er ‘Riters. Authors throughout Australia are invited to submit Prose
• Performance Poetry entries should be on an audio cassette, and Poetry pieces for judging in 2020. The Awards presentations
compact disc (CD), or USB stick, entrants shall clearly record for 2020 will be held on Saturdayn13th June 2020 in the Gilbert
a spoken poem, in bush ballad (rhyming) format, by any poet. White Centre, Fifth Street, Gladstone, South Australia.
The performance time must not exceed 8 minutes, including an
introduction. * Entries may be made in either or both sections: Entry forms available from www.rockyriverriters.club
Humorous Traditional Entries to be submitted by
• The name of the poet for each entry must be on the entry form, Friday April 10th, 2020 to:
but if the poem is the poets own work, their name must not be Laura Literary Awards Coordinator
on the CD etc. P .O . Box 164
• Two copies of the poem, on one side of A4 paper, is to be in- Crystal Brook SA 5523
cluded with the recording. All contestants who are performing For further information please contact
other than their own work are required to satisfy copyright Laura Literary Award Coordinator
requirements and may be required by the Society to provide Phone (08) 8636 2491
evidence of same – details of the original author or evidence of Email rockyriverriters@hotmail.com
author’s permission .
• A maximum of three (3) entries can be entered in written sections*
• A maximum of two (2) entries can be entered in performance

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