Poetry Competition

Competition #23 (September/October 2007) Results
Winner:	Zubair Ansari "zubair" of Kalpi, Uttar Pradesh, India
2^nd Position:	Khurshid Rizvi Naiyer of Riyadh, KSA
3^rd Position:	Tanwiruddin Ahmad Phool of Albany, New York, U.S.A. and Wazir Hassan Wazir of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

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Note: Mushaira.org Competition administration is sorry for the long delay in announcing the results due to some unexpected reasons.

Competition #24

Mushaira.org is working on an enhanced site with a complete redesign and more features. Poetry Competition is on hiatus during this time. We will restart the contest with the new site in near future.

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Prize

The winner will be awarded a Certificate of Achievement. The winner will also have the option to post the winning ghazal in audio in his/her own voice.

Judges

Renowned poet Sarwar Alam Raz (Texas, USA) is the judge of our Poetry Competition.

How the submissions are graded

Submissions are graded by our judges based on the following qualities:

Technical excellence
Rhyme/meter/suitability
Form and flow
Choice of words and readability
Message/interest/overall impact

General Rules

All poets must adhere to the following general rules:

Submissions must be the original work of the person submitting it to the competition
Participants must submit their poetry typed in Roman Urdu. At the moment we are not accepting submissions as image files or in Urdu fonts.
Submissions must comprise of at least five (5) but not more than ten (10) ash'aar
Your poetry must be submitted by the given deadline
You must register with Mehfil-e-Mushaira before submitting your poetry. It's a free, one time process.
Participants are allowed to submit only one piece of poetry for each competition.
Once we receive your poetry, no changes or alterations will be allowed. So please make sure that you are fully satisfied with it before submitting.
Participants are not allowed to enter their name or any other personally identifiable information with their poetry. To be completely unbiased, our judges do not want to see any names with your submission. Our system assigns a unique ID (roll number) to each submission for tracking before the judges view it.

Terms and Conditions

The decision of Mehfil-e-Mushaira and the judges will be final
No one poet will be awarded the first prize for more than two consecutive months. This is to give more poets a chance to participate and win. In case of same poet getting highest points in three consecutive rounds, the runner-up of that round will be awarded the prize. however, there is no restriction on poets to participate each month.
Use of foul, obscene, racist or othrwise objectionable language will automatically disqualify the submission.
Mehfil-e-Mushaira reserves the right to accept or reject any submission
Your submission will remain your property. However, by submitting it to Mehfil-e-Mushaira, you give Mehfil-e-Mushaira full permission to publish it on its site.
Selected submissions (that are considered worthy of publishing by Mehfil-e-Mushaira and the judges) will be posted on our site.
It is each participant's responsibility to keep his/her address and other information up-to-date with us. In case of loss of prize in the mail due to wrong address, Mefil-e-Mushaira will not be responsible.
Winners will be announced on our web site.
In case of a tie for the winner, Mehfil-e-Mushaira will use its descretion to decide the winner either by randomly picking a name from the names of participants with the highest points or by awarding prizes to all participants with the highest points.
Participants must agree to these terms and conditions as well as any other guidelines provided to them.

Submission Form

Click here to participate in the competition. (If you haven't registered with Mehfil-e-Mushaira, you will need to register first.)

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