The Dragomoshchenko Prize opened the season

Arkady Dragomoshchenko Award for young authors writing in Russian announced the opening of the third season.

In the year of the 70th anniversary of Arkady Dragomoshchenko (1946–2012), premium events are united with the International Conference “Other Logicism of Letters”. The conference organized around the phenomenon of Arkady Dragomoshchenko and the same name by his author’s seminar at the Faculty of Free Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University will take place in St. Petersburg for the second time.

More than fifty bachelors and undergraduates passed through the workshop of Dragomoshchenko, many of whom have already found independent ways in literature. The purpose of the project “Other Logicisms” is to unite the authors (writers and poets, philosophers and theorists of literature) of different countries, to create a field of dialogue of poetry, metaphysics, philosophy of language and psychoanalysis.

This year, the conference participants will focus on the problem of relations between philosophy and poetry, the “strong” poet and his heirs, poetic thought and poetic tradition. The name of the conference includes the word “variations”, among its tasks is also the construction of a hermeneutical prospect of understanding modern poetic practices, developing the language of their description, as well as fixing forms and meanings in which today theoretical knowledge is present in poetic space.

Among the conference participants: the writer, laureate of the prize Andrei Bely and many other awards Margarita Meklin (Dublin), poet Anna Glazova (Hamburg), cultural historian and essayist Denis Ioffe (Amsterdam), researchers from universities in Russia, America, Switzerland and New Zealand.

A special guest of the award and conference will be the American poet Barrett Wideten. The publishing house “The Order of Words” (the series “New Poems”) is preparing a book of critical essays and theoretical texts. Also in the series “New Poems”, the book of the finalist of the first season of the Lada Chizhova Award, the new book of Galina Rymbu and the book of poems Vasily Kondratyeva is preparing for the release.

In 2016, like two years ago, the Aleksandrinka’s new scene with the Dragomoshchenko Prize will take place of the video poetry laboratory, including the competition program of the festival festival “Fifth Leg” (curators Andrei Rodionov and Ekaterina Troepolskaya).

The Award Arkady Dragomoshchenko was established in 2014 on the basis of the bookstore and the Cultural site "Order of the Words" . The authors whose age does not exceed 27 years can be nominated for the prize. The prize is designed to identify relevant poetic practices that acutely respond to a challenge of time and contribute to a new understanding of “poetic”. The work of the award, in turn, should contribute to an adequate assessment of new directions and capabilities of writing, the development of discussion around the authors of the young generation.

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. The prize winners in 2014 and in 2015 were Nikita Safonov and Alexander Tsibul .

Jury of the 2016 Dragomoshchenko Prize:

• Alexander Skidan (chairman)
• Anna Glazova
• Vladimir Aristov
• Elena Kostyleva
• Nikita Safonov
• Sergey Zavyalov
• Alexandra Tsibul

2016 Dragomoshchenko Awards:

• Pavel Arsenyev (Petersburg)
• Polina Barskova (Amhert)
• Maria Vilkovskaya (Alma-Ata)
• Dmitry Golynko-Wolfson (Petersburg)
• Alla Gorbunova (Moscow)
• Danila Davydov (Moscow)
• Nikolai Kononov (Petersburg)
• Kirill Korchagin (Moscow)
• Dmitry Kuzmin (ozolnieki)
• Ilya Kukulin (Moscow)
• Vitaly Lechsier (Samara)
• Stanislav Lvovsky (Moscow)
• Evgenia Ritz (Nizhny Novgorod)
• Natalia Sannikova (Chelyabinsk)
• Andrey Saint-Senkov (Moscow)
• Stanislav Snytko (Petersburg)
• Nikita Sungatov (Moscow)
• Daria Sukhovy (Petersburg)
• Andrey Cherkasov (Moscow)
• Lidia Yusupova (Toronto)

The Long List of the Dragomoshchenko Prize will be announced on September 9 , the short list- October 31 , the final ceremony and related events will be held on November 25–27, 2016 .