As editor of flipped eye publishing, I am embarking on a series of distance races to raise funds for the future of the Venture Award.
flipped eye publishing is an award-winning small press and we're launching the Venture Award – named in memory of Wilfred Alfred Venture, a descendant of composer, actor and writer Ignatius Sancho, and influential mentor in his lifetime – to seek the next generation of great poets through a pamphlet competition.
Launched in May 2011, in the run-up to flipped eye publishing’s tenth anniversary, the Venture Award will give the winner a £1000 prize as well as publish a pamphlet based on the winning submission of 15 pages of poetry.
While we have the financing in place for the first set of prizes, we are mindful of the future so I am personally starting a distance running campaign to raise more funds to secure funds for the next five years and beyond. A greater store of funds also ensures that we can keep the quality of the judging high and give the winners the support they deserve.
