{"id":23470,"date":"2023-08-22T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T19:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?page_id=23470"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:10:12","slug":"annual-poetry-competitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/life-in-english\/departamental-awards\/annual-poetry-competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Poetry Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Annual Poetry Competitions\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"lilian-i-found-award-for-poetry\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lilian I. Found Award for Poetry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Lilian I. Found award, one prize will be awarded for the best unpublished poem of 50 lines or less by an undergraduate student currently enrolled at Carleton. The donor is the late Mrs. Lilian. I. Found, who endowed the Award in 1950, and was the convener of the Ottawa Poetry Group and Canadian Poetry Contest in the 1940s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"george-johnston-poetry-awards\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">George Johnston Poetry Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For the George Johnston Awards, three prizes are awarded annually, along with two honourable mentions, for the best unpublished poem (up to 5 poems may be submitted, not to exceed 250 lines) submitted by full or&nbsp; part-time students currently enrolled at Carleton. The late George Johnston, was a distinguished Canadian poet, professor, and founding member of the English Department at Carleton. His colleagues originally established this prize in his honour in 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Submission of up to 5 poems (not exceeding 250 lines in total). Student names should not appear on the pages with poems. Poems should be titled on each manuscript page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"eligibility\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eligibility<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lilian I. Found Prize<\/strong>: full or part-time undergraduate student, currently enrolled at Carleton<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>George Johnston Prizes<\/strong>: full or part-time students, currently enrolled at Carleton University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"the-competition-for-2025-2026-has-now-closed\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The competition for 2025-2026 has now closed. <\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilian I. Found Award for Poetry For the Lilian I. Found award, one prize will be awarded for the best unpublished poem of 50 lines or less by an undergraduate student currently enrolled at Carleton. The donor is the late Mrs. Lilian. I. Found, who endowed the Award in 1950, and was the convener of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":17229,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-23470","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28031,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23470\/revisions\/28031"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=23470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}