The Lockdown Prize

The Lockdown Prize

Monday, 15 June 2020, 5.00pm

Fish Publishing invites submissions to The Lockdown Prize, a writing competition in response to coronavirus.

Theme – Coronavirus (the writer’s response to the strange times of 2020).

Poems (max 19 lines)
Prose (max 100 Words)
Haiku/Senryu (standard length)

Nine pieces (three from each genre) will be published in the Fish Anthology 2020.

Short-listed entries will be published on the Fish web site.

For many, this is the most extraordinary event of our lifetime. While we are all isolated at home, thoughts turn to the imaginative and creative. At times of crises and changes in the world society looks to its artists who can help console, inspire and even re-imagine the world. You may not be the doctors or chemists who work at the coal-face of this epidemic, but you are the creative people who mine the human spirit and bring the ore to the surface.

Let’s hear from you, the writers and poets, for your response to this crisis. How is it affecting the psyche of the individual and the collective? How are people coping with their unexpected isolation and incarceration? Will we come out of it changed? Will we look at ourselves and our world with an altered perspective? We are looking for responses of all kinds – the funny, the sad, the imaginative, the surprising, the mundane, the beautiful.

Haiku/Senryu
Traditional haiku and senryu normally consist of 17 syllables, in three lines, 5, 7, and 5, but many poets do not rigidly adhere to this, and nor will we in how we define them.

See link below for further details.

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Published by The Journal of Music on 15 April 2020

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