The Colour of Saying - A Creative Writing Competition in Celebration of Dylan Thomas

Aim:

• For original and new pieces of creative writing to be based on Dylan Thomas’s poem ‘The Hunchback in the Park’

• To create a 5-year rolling programme which includes other disciplines, such as poetry accompanied by music, film scripts, play scripts,

and dramatic monologues

• To encourage everyone, including trauma or war victims, prisoners, abused wives or husbands, immigrants or refugees to a new country

who do not speak the host country’s language

Guideline:

Responses to the poem ‘The Hunchback in the Park’ can be in poetry, prose-poem, prose, diary form, and letter form.

We recommend all entrants read the rules carefully before entering.

Rules: Poetry, Prose-poem, Prose, Diary form, and Letter form

1. Entries can be submitted in any language or dialect

2. Entries must be accompanied by an English translation of the work (if possible)

3. Entries must be the original work of the entrant

4. Entries must not have been published, self-published, published on a website or broadcast before 27 October 2012

5. All entries must have a title

6. All entries must be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as a word attachment, which should include the age of the entrant and

contact details

7. All entries are judged anonymously and the writer’s name must not appear on the work itself

8. Handwritten entries cannot be accepted

9. Entries should be typed and printed in black ink on one sheet of paper (A4)

10. Pages must not be double sided

11. Entries can be double or single-spaced

12. Please do not staple printed entries

Rules: Fees, Prizes and Winners

1. There is no fee to enter this competition

2. The winners will be published in an anthology

3. All other entries will appear in phases on the Dylan Down the Ups website

4. Prizewinners TBA

5. All winners will be required to provide a biography and photograph

6. The copyright of each piece of work remains with the author

7. Authors of the winning work, by entering the competition, grant Dylan Down the Ups the right to publish and/or broadcast that work for

one year from 2014

8. Use of the work elsewhere during this time is subject to permission from Dylan Down the Ups

9. There will be anthology launches in the U.K. and beyond, to which successful entrants will be invited

Categories:

1. 10 – 12 years of age at time of submission of entry

2. 13 – 16 years of age at time of submission of entry

3. 17 – 20 years of age at time of submission of entry

4. 21 – 24 years of age at time of submission of entry

5. 25 years of age and over at time of submission of entry


Rules: General

1. The competition is open to anyone aged 10 or older at the time of entering

2. The competition is open to people of all countries, nations, and religions

3. The closing date of the competition is midnight (UK time), 27 April 2014

4. There is a limit of FIVE entries that a single entrant can make

5. All entries will be considered anonymously by the judges

6. Postal entries will only be accepted when accompanied by an entry form (forms may be photocopied)

7. One entry form may cover multiple entries

8. Entries will not be returned, so please keep a copy

9. No alterations can be made to work once entered

10. If you would like confirmation that your postal entry has been received, please include an internationally stamped addressed

envelope/postcard with your entry

11. Telephone or email confirmation of receipt is not available

12. Online entries made via the website will receive automatic confirmation at the time of submission

13. Dylan Down the Ups staff are unable to confirm the content of documents submitted online—please ensure you send the correct file

14. The competition organisers reserve the right to change the judging panel without notice and not to award prizes if, in the judges’ opinion,

such an action is justified

15. The judges’ decision is final and neither the judges nor Dylan Down the Ups staff will enter into any correspondence

16. No current employee or sponsor of Dylan Down the Ups is eligible to enter The Colour of Saying Competition

17. The best of the submissions will be judged by international writers/translators and published in an anthology which will appear on 27 October 2014,

the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth, co-published by The Seventh Quarry Press, UK, and Cross-Cultural Communications, USA

The remainder of the submissions will appear in phases on www.dylandowntheups.org.uk

Judges:

English-language:

Peter Thabit Jones and Anne Pelleschi of Wales; Hannah Ellis Thomas of England (Dylan’s granddaughter);

Stanley H. Barkan, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and John Dotson of America

Welsh language: Jim Parc Nest (Archdruid of the Bards) and others to be announced

Other-language judges will be chosen by Stanley H. Barkan and Peter Thabit Jones

Postal submissions to:

Dylan Down the Ups, 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Uplands, Swansea SA2 0RA, Wales, U.K.


Electronic submissions to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Organisers: Anne Pelleschi and Welsh poet Peter Thabit Jones in a collaboration with Stanley H. Barkan of New York