2024 Sejong International Sijo Competition
Submission deadline: September 30, 2024 (11:59pm CDT USA)
Sejong Cultural Society has been hosting Sejong Writing Competition (Essay and Sijo Category) since 2008 for USA and Canada residents only. Due to the many requests from around the world, we have decided to offer a separate INTERNATIONAL Sijo Competition. This is the 4th Sejong International Sijo Competition. Please note that this is a different competition from the Annual Sejong Writing Competition (Essay/Sijo).
Division: one division
Eligibility:
Age: all age
Nationality: any nationality (including USA and Canada)
Winners of previous Sejong International Competition are not eligible.
Requirements:
Sijo must be written in ENGLISH
Only one entry per applicant is permitted
Previously published or awarded SIJO is not accepted
Submit an entry by September 30, 2024
Prize:
Winner: $500 USD
Runner-up: $250 USD
Honorable Mentions: $100 USD
Submit your sijo using online form
SIJO:
The sijo is a traditional three-line Korean poetic form organized technically and thematically by line and syllable count. Using the sijo form, write one poem in English on a topic of your choice.
Resources:
- how to write sijo
- sijo samples
- sijo references
videos on Our YouTube Channel
- sijo lectures by David McCanne
- sijo lectures by Mark Peterson
- sijo teaching - elementary school students
- sijo teaching - high school classes
- sijo and music - at rush hour concert, Chicago
- sijo and music - at the poetry foundation
- sijo and music - hiphop
Past Sejong International Sijo Competition award winning SIJO entries
Past Sejong Writing Competition Sijo Category award winning SIJO entries
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Sponsor - The Sejong International Sijo Competition
The Sejong International Sijo Competition are supported in part by grants Overseas Koreans Foundation
Sponsors - The Sejong Writing Competition
The Sejong Writing Competition is supported in part by grants from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea), DB Kim Jun Ki Cultural Foundation, Illinois Arts Council Agency, and Overseas Koreans Foundation, and Bisco Charitable Foundation.
