Announced by the Long List Prize Arkady Dragmoshchenko

On Sunday, October 5, a long list of Arkady Dragomoshchenko prize was published.

The collegium of the nominators, which includes curators, poets, critics and publishers, nominated 20 poets for a prize:

1. Dmitry Bilko (Simferopol). Nominator - Denis Larionov;
2. Vera Voinova (Petersburg). Nominator - Vasily Borodin;
3. Ekaterina Zakharkiv (Moscow). Nominator - Leo Oborin;
4. Dmitry Kazakov (Kiev). Nominator - Stanislav Belsky;
5. Alexey Kruchkovsky (Petersburg). Nominator - Elena Kostyleva;
6. Ivan Kurbakov (Moscow). Nominator - Andrey Cherkasov;
7. Nikita Levitsky (Krasnoyarsk). Nominator - Natalia Azarova;
8. Victor Lisin (Nizhny Novgorod). Nominator - Evgeny Proschin;
9. Eduard Savenko (Lukoyanov) (Moscow). Nominator - Igor Gulin;
10. Nikita Safonov (Petersburg). Nominator - Evgenia Suslov;
11. Sergey Ododnov (Ivanovo). Nominator - Pavel Zhagun;
12. Daria Serenko (Moscow). Nominator - Danila Davydov;
13. Stanislav Snytko (Petersburg). Nominator - Alexander Ulanov;
14. Ivan Sokolov (Petersburg). Nominator - Ekaterina Simonova;
15. Nina Stavrogina (Moscow). Nominator - Eugene Ritz;
16. Nikita Sungatov (Moscow). Nominator - Pavel Arsenyev;
17. Alexandra Tsibul (Petersburg). Nominator - Victor Ivanev;
18. Ksenia Charyeva (Moscow). Nominator - Pavel Bannikov;
19. Lada Chizhova (Petersburg). Nominator - Kirill Korchagin;
20. Kirill Shirokov (Moscow). Nominator - Irina Maksimova.

The Arkady Dragomoshchenko Award was established in 2014 on the basis of the bookstore and the Cultural site “The Order of Words” in St. Petersburg and is awarded to poets not older than 27 years writing in Russian. The jury of the award includes Alexander Skidan (chairman of the jury), Mikhail Yampolsky, Dmitry Kuzmin, Anna Glazova, Stanislav Lviv, Alexander Ilyanen.

The names of the three finalists, whom the nominators will choose along with the jury by closed voting will be declared on November 5. Presentation of the award and related events will be held on November 22–23 in the "Word Prince" and on the new stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater.

The size of the main award is 70 thousand rubles. Also, the holder of the main award receives the opportunity to publish a book in the poetic series "New Poems" of the publishing house "Order of Words". The finalists receive two incentive bonuses of 20 thousand rubles.