Director of the Wee Kim Wee Centre at SMU and Associate Professor of English Literature Kirpal Singh wanted to spread the word on Writing Ventures’ new international poetry contest that offers terrific prizes for the winning individual poems. It will take only one poem to get the judges’ nod as the top prize winner, for which the poet-entrant receives a whopping US$10,000 and will be flown to Singapore for the awards ceremony in December. Submissions will be accepted from July 1 to September 30, with an entry fee of US$15 per poem or US$150 for as many as 15 poem entries. Winners will be announced on November 30. Associate Prof Kirpal Singh, one of the three judges, is an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, critic and writer, known for his passion for creativity and innovation.