Urban The Zofia Nasierowska Public Library in Ełk invites you to take part in the in the Siegfried Lenz International Literary Competition under the patronage of the Mayor of the City of Ełk, Tomasz Andrukiewicz.

Goal The aim of the competition is to increase interest in the written word and literature Contemporary. Popularizing valuable creativity, as well as encouraging young people to express their emotions, feelings, beliefs, judgments in Literature.

The prize pool in competition is PLN 15 thousand

The work must be be one's own work, not yet published and not rewarded in other Competitions.

Requirements concerning the length of the work are: minimum 10,000 and maximum 30,000 characters, including whitespace characters, paragraphs, and others.

The work must be should be sent only in electronic form – open text files (in files: doc ). Works submitted in other formats will not be qualified to participate in the competition.

Condition participation in the competition is to submit a work by June 2, 2024 Year.

In the past This year, 68 works from Poland and abroad were submitted to the competition.

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

Detailed Rules of the competition and application form at: https://biblioteka.elk.pl/viii-miedzynarodowy-konkurs-literacki-im-siegfrieda-lenza/