ITEM 1: The world-wide competition 2016 of the 6th art (poetry) is organised by the World and Universal Academy foundation, in partnership with the WUACADEMIA company. It is open from March 30, 2016 to April 30, 2016. All artists, irrespective of age, sex, nationality or social situation
may participate.
ITEM 2: To participate in the competition, send a poem (or several poems) that are unpublished. Poems can only be accepted if it is written (or translate) in either English, French or Dutch. It will be even much better if candidates would translate their works into the above mentioned languages.
ITEM 3: The world-wide competition 2016 of the 6th art (poetry) rewards the best unpublished poems. The six possible themes are the following:
- Poems for children;
- comical or satirical poems;
- sad or dramatic poems;
- epic poems or politically engaged ones;
- love poems;
- erotic poems.
ITEM 4: All the poetic forms are accepted (prose, rhyme, haikus, towards free, figurative poems, surrealist poetries…).
ITEM 5: The three best poems from each theme will receive respectively:
- The golden Prize, 6th art: poetry( certificate and edition of the poem in an international anthology in either English, French or Dutch languages);
-The silver Prize of the 6th art: poetry (certificate and edition of the poem in an international anthology in either English, French or Dutch languages).
-The Bronze Prize of the 6th art: poetry (certificate and edition of the poem in an international anthology in either English, French or Dutch languages).
All the winning poems will be published after the competition.
ITEM 6: The best poem among the “gold Prizes" will receive the World-wide Grand Prize of the 6th art: poetry (a certificate, international promotion).
ITEM 7: The concurrent poem must be sent through Internet (in format PDF) and in A4 format paper.
ITEM 8: The works that are sent in will not be returned to their author. Once sent, the work will not be modified or completed by registering again. The author has to send his photography and his artistic curriculum vitae. Candidates are obliged to send in their works either in Dutch, English or French in addition to their artistic curriculum vitae. The participants using a pseudonym must mention the two names (the true name and the pseudonym) on the participation card when paying for the entry fee, otherwise they will be eliminated.
ITEM 8: ENTRY FEE (FEES): €0 first entry, €25 each additional. It is possible to present several works. Every work will have an apart inscription to. The entry fee is non-refundable.
ITEM 9: The competing works will be published in an anthology and on the site www.wuacademia.org from May 07, 2016. Netsurfers will then be able to vote. The netsurfers would vote and choose the best overall work. The candidates do not receive any rights of authors concerning the usage of their works by the World and Universal Academy notably in regards to the voting process on the net and ebook.
ITEM 10: The results (the nominations) will be announced on July 25, 2016. The prize award will take place in the Netherlands on August 27, 2016 during the WORLD MANAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE FORUM (and the fifth WUacademia Festival) in Amsterdam. The presence of the winners at the prize award day is highly needed.
ITEM 11: Candidates must submit only original work of arts. Any work that we receive from participants is assumed to be authentic work of the author. In the event of false claim the author will bare the consequence alone. We wish all the participants good luck. |