We are pleased to announce the winners of the first annual 100 Thousand Poets for a Free Tibet Poetry Contest judged by renowned Tibetan poet Tsoltim N. Shakabpa:
First place: Tenzing Dolma
Second place: Samuel Sangay Lama
First Annual 100 Thousand Poets for a Free Tibet Poetry Contest
The mission of this contest is to encourage young Tibetans in Tibet or in exile anywhere in the world to write poetry. Poems can be written in a language other than English accompanied by an English translation and on any subject matter written in any style. Poems will be judged by renowned Tibetan poet Tsoltim N. Shakabpa.
Please submit 1 to 4 poems using the contact form. Please include your name and country in the submission. The poems will then be forwarded to the judges.
First place: $125
Second place: $50
Deadline: December 1, 2011
Winners will be announced in December 2011.
The winning poems will also be published on the 100 Thousand Poets for Change website http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange/ and in the upcoming anthology of Tibetan poets published by Big Bridge, an online literary journal edited by Michael Rothenberg, forthcoming Spring 2012 (poets retain all rights to their work).
All poetry submissions will be considered for publication in the anthology of Tibetan poets published by Big Bridge Online Literary Journal
http://www.bigbridge.org/BB15/index3.html
Please submit 1 to 4 poems using the contact form. Please include your name and country in the submission. The poems will then be forwarded to the judges.
First place: $125
Second place: $50
Deadline: December 1, 2011
Winners will be announced in December 2011.
The winning poems will also be published on the 100 Thousand Poets for Change website http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange/ and in the upcoming anthology of Tibetan poets published by Big Bridge, an online literary journal edited by Michael Rothenberg, forthcoming Spring 2012 (poets retain all rights to their work).
All poetry submissions will be considered for publication in the anthology of Tibetan poets published by Big Bridge Online Literary Journal
http://www.bigbridge.org/BB15/index3.html
About the contest judge:
Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa was a former President of the Tibetan Association of Washington, who founded TIBETFEST, which to this day attracts a crowd of 50,000 people in an annual two day festival. Also, a former senior international banker and Chairman & President of an investment bank in Texas when he suffered a debilitating stroke in December 1999. Since then, he has authored 8 books of poems and is a prodigious political activist for a free Tibet. He is the son of Tsepon Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa, the eminent Tibetan historian, statesman, educator, freedom fighter and former Finance Minister of independent Tibet.
Tsoltim Ngima is popularly known as "T.N.", which he says are his initials that also stand for "Tibetan National".