Irseer Pegasus

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The Irseer Pegasus is a literary event held annually in January in the Irsee Monastery of the Swabian regional group of the Association of German Writers VS and the Irsee Swabian Academy. The authors' meeting promotes encounters and discussions within a workshop between writers from the fields of fictional prose , poetry and essay writing . The focus of the authors' meeting is on a joint text discussion and the specialist literature discussion, as well as the award of a literature prize.

Participation requirements

The authors should have at least one independent book publication (not self-published ) or be able to present comparable publications. Applications must be submitted by the end of October of the previous year at the latest. A jury evaluates the submitted texts, which must be read out in a maximum of 15 minutes.

The jury members are:

Former jury members included Rainer Jehl , Fritz Reutemann , Eva Leipprand and Rainer Wochele .

Participation in the author's workshop and the events of the supporting program is free of charge for authorized authors. It also includes two nights including full board. Thus, the admission to the workshop and competition already represents a kind of upstream award.

Prizes and awards

A special feature of this meeting of authors is the fact that the authors participating in the workshop award one of the two prizes endowed with € 1000 themselves.

Participation in the workshop and awarding of prizes is possible up to three times, whereby prizewinners are not admitted again. The prize is considered a young talent prize and is noticed by the specialist public: many of the authors later received other, in some cases significant, prizes, such as the Feldkircher or the Dresden Poetry Prize .

Publications

In 2008 an anthology with selected texts from the workshop was published for the 10th anniversary of the Irsee Pegasus . Air under the wings was published by Klöpfer & Meyer and was presented, among other things, with a reading in Bregenz.

Award winners

Guest authors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Participating authors , online at irseer-pegasus.de
  2. ↑ Poet's Shop
  3. ↑ lyrikzeitung.com for the price
  4. ↑ Reading in Bregenz
  5. ↑ Pegasus awarded. SZ online from January 9, 2019, accessed on January 10, 2019.