Alma Mater - Violani Landi Poetry Award

HIGHLIGHTS

• Call for submissions 2024 is available in the attachment box. Deadline: April 7, 2024
• The Winners of “Alma Mater – Violani Landi” Award 2023:

Luis García Montero (International Poetry Award)

Valerio Magrelli (Lifetime Achievement Italian Poetry Award)

Simona Mancini (Debut Work Award)

Rebecca Garbin (Unpublished Poets Award)

The Award Ceremony, led by the Rector Magnificent of the Bologna University, will be held on June 13, 2023, at 5.30 pm, Sala di Ulisse, Palazzo Poggi, via Zamboni 33

For more information on the Award Ceremony and on the Szymborska Festival click here

• Call for submissions 2023 and the application form are available in the attachment box. Deadline: March 31, 2023 
• 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• UNPUBLISHED POETS AWARD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