CALL FOR ENTRIES

I don’t know about you, but we fucken love Sunday afternoons.
We live for our Sunday afternoons.
Every year we have fifty-two of the suckers to celebrate, and we’ve decided to mark each Sunday afternoon with a new poem, written during that week.

But we ain’t writing the poems; you are.

Here’s what we’re thinking: We ask you, writers of writings, to submit a sample of your poems for us to chose one among you to be the first annual Fifty-Two Sundays poet. The selected poet will be required to submit one poem a week, for the whole calendar year of 2013. In return: we will pay AUD$10 per poem for the full 52 weeks, and then publish all 52 poems in a lovely little chapbook.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

- Interested poets should compile a selection of poems, no fewer than 8, and no more than 15, written over the last two years, and email them to: 

- We would also like a short biography (stating age and country of residence), and a little bit about your writing and practice would be nice too.
- Submissions must be received by no later than the 9th of December 2012.
- Submissions must be accompanied by contact email.
- Only apply if you are willing and capable of fulfilling all the requirements of the Fifty-Two Sundays poet as outlined below.
- Emerging poets are especially encouraged to apply.
- Selection of the Fifty-Two Sundays poet for 2013 will be carried out by a small team of talented judges, wearing tweed and corduroy, while smoking elegant briar pipes. Booze may, or may not be involved in the selection process.

IF YOU ARE SELECTED TO BE THE FIFTY-TWO SUNDAYS POET FOR 2012, THESE WILL BE YOUR REQUIREMENTS AND OBLIGATIONS AND REWARDS:
- Each weekly submission must be made by email. Ol’ school post, while still a valid and noble form of transmission, is too slow for this particular project.
- Poems can be written in any language, but each weekly submission must be an English translation, suitable for publishing.
- Our definition of a poem is quite broad. We’re open to all forms and styles. And while prose poems are fine, short stories are not... Polemic poems can be ace, but essays aren’t quite what we’re after.... (It’s a fine line sometimes, we know, but we think you know what we mean.) One requirement is that each weekly submission be under 500 words (more or less).
- Previously published poems will not be accepted as a weekly submission.
- Poems must be received, by email, by midnight of every Sunday in 2013.
- Should the selected poet fail to deliver the weekly poems, the project may be terminated, including all monies and the publishing agreement. We will also be very hurt and we may say some regrettable things.
- At the completion of the year, we will award the selected poet $10 per poem, in a lump sum of AUD$520 (subject to currency fluctuations). We will also publish the complete 52 poems in a small but pretty chapbook to be sold in Desire Books, and other bookshops around the world, and via the Desire Books webstore. The print run will be dependent on the total length of the poems, but rest assured, the selected poet will get enough copies to hand out to parents, teachers, prospective mates in nightclubs and to keep a few on their bookshelves besides. If all copies sell out relatively quickly, we'll print another run.