The International Poetry Festival Europa in Versi, in collaboration with La Casa della Poesia di Como launches the 12nd edition of the
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE OF POETRY AND FICTION
EUROPE IN VERSE AND PROSE
For more information, please contact: info@europainversi.org
or the phone number +39 333 8429314
from 10.00 am to 12.00 pm
and from 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm on Mondays,
or from 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm on Tuesdays.
The office will not answer the telephone at any other times.
As usual, the Prize aims to scout new talents or talents who deserve greater visibility on our social channels and on the websites www.europainversi.org and www.lacasadellapoesiadicomo.com
Absolute winners of both published Poetry and published Fiction
will receive a prize of € 1000,00.
For all sections dedicated to unpublished texts, the winner of each section will have the opportunity to publish it free of charge with I Quaderni del Bardo editions by Stefano Donno.
The Prize falls into 6 sections:
• Unpublished poetry
• Published poetry
• Unpublished fiction
• Published fiction
• Unpublished poetry by young people (under 30)
• Unpublished fiction by young people (under 30)
The jury is composed as follows:
President of the Jury for Poetry
Milo De Angelis, poet
President of the Jury for Fiction
prof. Gianmarco Gaspari, Former Professor of Italian Literature University of Insubria DiSUIT - Department of Human Sciences and Innovation for the Territory - Director of the International Research Center for Local Histories and Cultural Diversities University of Insubria
Elisabetta Broli, journalist and writer
Stefano Donno, publisher
Bruno Galluccio, poet
Roberto Galaverni, literary critic and culture editor with Corriere della Sera
Laura Garavaglia, poet and journalist, director of the International Poetry Festival
Europa in versi
The decision of the jury cannot be questioned. The jury has a right not to attribute one or more prizes indicated in these rules, providing a reason for the decision.
The Prize is open to Italian and foreign authors who have turned 18 when enrolling in the competition.
Works must be sent in by 21 March 2027, for items sent by standard post, the date of the postmark shall be taken as proof of the date of posting.
We warmly suggest authors should send in their works well before the deadline in order to further the jury’s task.
Ten works will be selected for each section.
Both author and title of the selected works will be published on the websites
www.europainversi.org and www.lacasadellapoesiadicomo.com.
Award cerimony
The overall winning authors and finalists of the various sections will be awarded
in Como on May 8, 2027, at an event open to the public.