The 2022 Young Armenian Poets Awards – Deadline Extended!
The International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) is proud to announce the 2022 Young Armenian Poets Awards, an annual contest that recognizes and provides a platform for exciting new Armenian writers between the ages of 14 and 18 at the time of submission. This year’s entrants are asked to consider the following prompt.
In “Let’s Build a Bridge,” poet Marine Petrossian writes, “my country is not your country but maybe some of my dreams are your dreams also.” How can poetry serve as a bridge between Armenia and the over five million persons of full or partial Armenian ancestry living outside it today? What kinds of conversations might be necessary between Armenians and the world or across the diaspora itself? This year’s Young Armenian Poets Awards invites entrants to think about these questions when submitting work.edd
Please note that we have extended the deadline to June 17.