Takes call for works in the VII International Literary Competition Siegfried Lenz, which takes place under the patronage of the President City of Elk. The condition for participation in the competition is to send works until 03 June 2023. The prize pool in the competition is 10 000 PLN

Track must be your own work, not yet published and not awarded in other Competitions. It must be completely original and not to include remakes of other works. Requirements The volume of the song is: a minimum of 10,000 characters and a maximum of 30 000 characters. The work must be submitted only in the form of electronic – open text files (in files: doc); Works submitted in other formats will not be eligible for participation in the Competition.

In In 2022, 62 works from Poland and abroad were submitted to the competition.

The winners were:

• 1 place Patryk Zalaszewski for "Despite God"

• 2 place Małgorzata Szczecina for "Cucumbers"

• 3 place Michał Kaźmierczak for "On Grandmother's Dying"

Highlight Received:

• Isabella Degórska for "Oblivion"

• Karolina Awarded for "White Cradles of Europe"

• May Marta Piekarska for "Perhaps the end of August is equally pleasant."

Goal the competition is to increase interest in the written word, contemporary literature. Creating opportunities for appreciation and popularizing the valuable work of debutants. Promotion cities - and thus also the promotion of the creativity of residents. Encouraging young people to express their emotions, feelings, beliefs, judgments in literature, promotion of mutual understanding.

Siegfried Lenz

Outstanding German writer born in 1926 in Ełk, died in 2014 in Hamburg. Author of "Museum of the Homeland", "German Lesson", "Sweet Sulejki". On 18 October 2011, Siegfried Lenz received the title of Honorary Citizen of the City in Ełk. In The ceremony was attended by almost 300 guests from Polish and Abroad.

More information and competition rules available at https://biblioteka.elk.pl/vii-miedzynarodowy-konkurs-literacki-im-siegfrieda-lenza/