The Mahmud Darwish Prize Call For Poets, 2025

Medellin International Poetry Festival and
The World Poetry Movement announce the terms and conditions

With the aim of widening the participation in the Medellin International Poetry Festival to include new poetic circles in the world, and to continue disseminating important emerging voices in the current poetry scene, Prometeo magazine and the World Poetry Movement invite world poets to respond to Mahmoud Darwish Prize Call.

The Medellin International Poetry Festival and The World Poetry Movement announced the terms and conditions as following:

1. Poets of any age, nationality, gender or language may participate, regardless of their place of residence. Poets who have participated in the Medellin International Poetry Festival in the past, in any of its 34 previous versions, are excluded from this call.
2. Three foreign poets will be chosen, whose prize will be participation in the 35th edition of the Medellin International Poetry Festival (July 5 to 12, 2025).
3. Poets who send their poems in languages ​​other than Spanish must accompany them with the respective translations into Spanish.
4. In a single PDF or Word document, each author should send 20 poems (published or unpublished) and a bio-bibliographic note of maximum 20 lines.
5. Each author must also send a high-resolution photo and contact information: email, telephone, WhatsApp and city of residence. All documentation should be sent to:[email protected]
6. Participation in the Festival will be in person. The organization of the 35FIPMed will cover the selected poets’ air tickets, food and lodging at the festival’s guest hotel, as well as transportation to and from the airport in Medellin, as well as to scheduled activities.
7. Each of the winners will be given a plaque recognizing their participation. The names of the judges will be announced on the day of the awarding, which will be made public February 15, 2025.
8. The judges may also suggest other names of poets participating in the call, to be taken into account for invitation to this version, or for future versions of the festival.
9. This call is open as of its publication and closes on January 15, 2025.

The prize is sponsored by the The Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge of Colombia.