Alma Mater - Violani Landi Poetry Award

HIGHLIGHTS

• Call for submissions 2025 is available in the attachment box. Deadline: April 15, 2024

• The List of winners 2014-2024 is available in the attachment box.

 The Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, in order to honour the memory of Elena Violani Landi, poet and patron of the University, establishes a poetry award in four categories, whose evaluation is assigned to the Board Members of the Centre for Contemporary Poetry:

• VIOLANI LANDI INTERNATIONAL POETRY AWARD

to a foreign poet who has distinguished him/herself in terms of the quality of their work

• VIOLANI LANDI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

to an Italian poet who has distinguished him/herself in terms of the quality of their work

• DEBUT WORK AWARD

to debutant poets, reserved to the best first work published in the period specified in the call text

• UNPUBLISHED POETS AWARD

to poets whose age is 25 or less by the call’s deadline, who participate with a 15-20 poem collection