Bare Hands Poetry

Postcard Competition

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:57:00 +0000

BARE HANDS INTERNATIONAL POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 2013

We are delighted to be running our postcard competition again! Four winners will be selected and there will be a shared cash prize of €400. The two winning poems and two winning photographs of the competition will be turned into 2,000 beautiful postcards distributed to leading independent bookshops around the world including Dublin, London, Edinburgh, Derry, Galway, Cork, Paris, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Greece, Sydney, Toronto & Vancouver. They’ll be free so people can just pick them up! Click here to view the winning and highly commended entries from last year.

The theme of the competition is Bare Hands.

The 2013 competition entry deadline has now passed.

The two winners in each category will receive €100 each and their work will be made into 2,000 postcards sent to independent bookshops around the world for free. Four highly commended entries in each category will be published on our website and their names will appear on the printed postcards. The winners will be announced in May and the postcards will be distributed in June.

Oh and bookshops will include…

Shakespeare & Co, Paris

The Abbey Bookshop, Paris

Foyles Bookshop, London

Woolfson and Tay, London

Another Country, Berlin

St. George’s, Berlin

Atlantis Books, Santorini

Little Acorns Bookstore, Derry

Gertrude & Alice, Sydney

Sappho Books, Melbourne

Collected Works, Melbourne

City Lights, San Francisco

Moe’s Books, San Francisco

Under The Volcano Books, Mexico

La Nave Joyeria Libraria, Salamanca

The Last Bookstore, LA

Skylight Books, LA

The Strand, New York

The Edinburgh Bookshop, Edinburgh

Type Books, Toronto

McLeod’s, Vancouver

The Winding Stair, Dublin

Charlie Byrne’s, Galway

Vibes & Scribes, Cork

And more to be announced!!

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Bare Hands Print Anthology

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:46:00 +0000

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“The Bare Hands Anthology - full of energy and beauty - stands out among literary journals, online and off. The excellent mix of writing and image is perfect; each work is definite in its space and time; holding the eye, enriching the mind.” - Jessie Lendennie, Editor of Salmon Poetry.

After a hugely successful Fundit campaign we are delighted to announce that the Bare Hands Print Anthology is now available!!

Featuring poetry by Pamela Clarke Vandall, Gerard Smyth, Donna Sorensen, Michael Ray, Paul Perry, Phil Lynch, Sarah Clancy, Jack Little, Jessica Maybury, Irene Mosvold, Dimitra Xidous, Daniel Ryan, Greg Kirkorian, Fiona Bolger, Laura Cleary, Alexis Fancher, Brendan Sullivan, SB Stokes, Jayson Roycroft, Lennart Lundh, Sanchari Sur, Nic Alea, Lisa Allen, Alan Jude Moore and David Rudden. Photography by Eleanor Bennet, Aprilia Zank, Clare Coyle, Hannah-Clare Gordon, Tiffany Hearsey, Gerald Bainsworthy, Janet Kvammen, Olga Stesnjagina, Steven Gray, Twish Mukherjee, Bryony Dunne, Darragh O’ Callaghan and Donal Greene.

You can purchase your own gorgeous copy by clicking the Buy Now button above! Containing 25 poems and 15 photographs, it’s 100% gorgeous! ;) We’ve had such an exciting year with all of you so far - each issue of the magazine has totaled over a thousand reads, a thousand! This first print venture is going to mark an important change in Bare Hands, and our second year is full of surprises that are already under way.

Love from Kerrie & Sarah x

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2012 Competition Winners

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:56:00 +0000

View the 2012 winning and highly commended entries of the Bare Hands International Poetry & Photography Competition by clicking below! The postcards were sent to independent bookshops all around the world for free. To enter the 2013 competition please click here.

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Bare Hands Poetry & Photography

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Bare Hands is an online monthly international journal of contemporary poetry and photography. We publish ten poems and five photographs every month for free. If you wish to purchase a copy of the stunning Bare Hands Print Anthology to celebrate our one year birthday click the buy now button above!

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We seek work that is beautiful and different.

Write it with your bare hands…

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Editors: Kerrie O’ Brien, Sarah Griffin & Colm Keegan