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Poetry competition: Discover your homeland in verse! Be there!
Poetry competition “Me and us: my world somewhere else and at home” for teenagers and young adults must be submitted by October 14th.
Poetry competition: Discover your homeland in verse! Be there!
An exciting project is just around the corner: Under the motto “Me and us: my world somewhere else and at home,” the Lüdinghausen local history association, in collaboration with Vischering Castle, invites you to a poetry competition. The competition, which is entirely dedicated to the theme of “Homeland”, is aimed at teenagers and young adults between the ages of 11 and 20 as well as freelance poets between the ages of 20 and 99. Participants can submit their poetry contributions until October 14th and creatively express their ideas about “home”. What connects the younger generations with “home,” where is it located and is there more than one home? These questions are the focus; they invite discussion and reflection.
What's particularly exciting is that the poems don't have to follow any specific guidelines and can be written in any language. For example, students in a “welcome class” at the St. Antonius Gymnasium Lüdinghausen have already written poems in their home language. This shows the diversity and openness that the competition wants to promote. The submitted works will be evaluated by an experienced team of judges, including Heike König-Bölke, Joachim Feldmann, Hendrik Berling, Manfred Coenen and Jon Wiggermann.
Prices and reading
Attractive prizes await the first three winners, including book and cinema vouchers as well as tickets to Vischering Castle. The main prize is a special experience: dinner with the celebrated author Joachim B. Schmidt, who will read from his new novel “Ósmann” at Vischering Castle on October 29th at 7 p.m. The novel, which is about home and the loss of home, is inspired by a real Icelandic ferryman and shows the location of home in Iceland. Schmidt, who has lived in Iceland since 2007, brings a piece of his experience and literary work to us with this reading.
Submissions of poems can be submitted by email to Jon Wiggermann (jon.wiggermann@kreis-coesfeld.de) or directly on site at Vischering Castle, Berenbrock 1, 59348 Lüdinghausen. And don't forget: the deadline is October 14th! So get to your pens and those who write a lot, get to the keys – there’s something coming up!
Overall, the competition not only offers the opportunity to be creative, but also the chance to be published in the literary magazine “Am Erker”. This is another incentive to get involved and show your literary talent to the world. Let's see which voices speak out here and which stories are told about home!