2025 Wisconsin Sijo Competition - closed
(The 5th Annual)Deadline: January 20, 2025 (11.59pm CST)
2025 Competition Results
Winners | Judges | Winners' Sijo
The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Sejong Cultural Society are delighted to announce the winners of the fifth annual Wisconsin Sijo (WiSiJo) competition.
Congratulations to all winners.
WISCONSIN SIJO COMPETITION RULES
Write one sijo in English on a topic of your choice.
*Only one entry per applicant.
*Past Grand Prize winners of the Wisconsin Competition are not eligible.
Divisions
- Adult (age 19 and older)
- Senior (ages 14-18)
- Junior (age 13 and younger)
Eligibility
- Contestants must be legal residents of Wisconsin. Those temporarily residing out of state (e.g., military members or college students) are allowed to participate.
- Contestants must participate in the division appropriate for their age. Younger contestants may not apply to a higher division.
Entries
- One sijo per contestant is permitted.
- All entries must be written in English. If Korean or another language is included, the entry will be judged on its English content alone.
- A title for the sijo is not required.
- Entries must be submitted using our application form (above). Entries submitted via email will not be accepted.
- The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Sejong Cultural Society reserve the right to reprint any entry submitted to the Wisconsin Sijo Competition in future publications.
- Past Grand Prize winners of the Wisconsin Competition are not eligible.
- There is no entry fee for the competition.
Prizes
- Adult division: Grand Prize ($400), two Runners-Up ($200 each)
- Senior division: Grand Prize ($300), two Runners-Up ($150 each)
- Junior division: Grand Prize ($200), two Runners-Up ($100 each)
- (The judges may decline to award a prize.)
Free Books
- A limited number of entrants in the adult division of this year’s WiSiJo competition will receive a complimentary copy of Richard Rutt’s The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo, thanks to a partnership with the University of Michigan Press and additional funding from the Hyuk Yu Fund for Korean Studies.
- For more information please visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for East Asian Studies webpage:
Past Competition Results
- 2024 Wisconsin Sijo Competition: Winners | Judges | Winners' Sijo
- 2023 Wisconsin Sijo Competition: Winners | Judges | Winners' Sijo
- 2022 Wisconsin Sijo Competition: Winners | Judges | Winners' Sijo
- 2021 Wisconsin Sijo Competition: Winners | Judges | Winners' Sijo
If you have any questions, please contact us at
wisijo@sejongculturalsociety.org.
The Wisconsin Sijo Competition is a collaboration between CEAS at University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Sejong Cultural Society.
