Dragomoshchenko Award announced Long List

A collegium of 15 poetic award nominators Arkady Dragmoshchenko for young authors writing in Russian announced a Long list of 2015.

It included (nominator - author):

• Shamshad Abdullaev - Nikita Levitsky (Nizhny Novgorod)
• Natalia Azarova - Stanislav Snytko (Petersburg)
• Pavel Arsenyev - Nikita Sungatov (Moscow)
• Stanislav Belsky - Maria Banko (Kyiv)
• Vladimir Belyaev - Ivan Sokolov (Petersburg)
• Vasily Borodin - Maria Fokeeva (Moscow)
• Danila Davydov - Oksana Vasyakina (Moscow)
• Hamdam Zakirov - Anatoly Kaplan (Odessa)
• Kirill Korchagin - Nina Stavrogina (Moscow)
• Dmitry Kuzmin - Kuzma Koblov (Moscow)
• Ilya Kukulin - Daria Serenko (Moscow)
• Denis Larionov - Dmitry Bilko (Simferopol)
• Stanislav Lvovsky - Alexander Tsibul (Petersburg)
• Lev Oborin - Ksenia Charyeva (Moscow)
• Evgenia Ritz - Janis Sinaiko (Lviv)

Jury of the award: Alexander Skidan (Petersburg, Chairman), Anatoly Barsakh (Petersburg), Anna Glazova (Hamburg), Sergey Zavyalov (Winterur), Elena Kostyleva (Petersburg) and the first laureate of the award Nikita Safonov (Petersburg).

The short list will be announced no later than October 26, 2015. Open debates, readings, awarding ceremony and other related events will be held on November 21–22.

A special guest of the award will be the American poet Michael Palmer. Within the framework of premium events, his open lecture and a poetic evening will take place, and he will also give the prize to the new laureate.

The Award Arkady Dragomoshchenko was established in 2014 by an independent bookstore of intellectual literature “The Word Order” and annually is awarded to poets whose age at the time of nomination does not exceed 27 years. The first laureate of the award was the St. Petersburg poet Nikita Safonov.