Both established and emerging poets are invited to apply for participation in the jubilee 10th season of Mili Dueli – an international online poetry competition. Participation includes active interaction among poets via the Facebook social network throughout 2025/26.

Mili Dueli is a cultural project that has brought together hundreds of poets from different countries over the years (since 2012), aiming to increase the visibility of their poetry and encourage international literary cooperation — especially among poets from the Balkans, diaspora communities, and around the world.

 APPLICATION CONDITIONS

Authors from anywhere in the world may apply, with no age restriction.

The only requirement is that you are the author of the poems you submit.

Participation is completely free of charge!

Participants from previous seasons may apply again, except for previous winners, who are no longer eligible to compete.

Authors under the age of 18 will be redirected to a special category: Mili Dueli Junior.

 HOW TO APPLY

To apply, click the following link: [HERE]

Fill out the form with your basic personal information and upload the poems you wish to submit.

 AWARDS MAIN AWARD

• Plaque + Title “Mili Dueli 2025/26 Laureate” – awarded for 1st place
  (The award will be presented in person, at an agreed promotion event.)

ADDITIONAL AWARDS

• Plaques for the top 10 finalists
• Plaques for the best-ranked author from each participating country
• Balić Recognition – plaque for the best-ranked poet from the Balkan diaspora

SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS

(Plaques awarded for special contributions):

• Al Buqain Recognition – best-ranked poet from the Middle East
• Aga Recognition – for the best audio-visual poetry performance in the finals
• Roula Pollard Recognition – for outstanding poets from Greece and North Macedonia who contributed to intercultural dialogue
• Media Recognition – for the individual who contributed most to promoting international literary cooperation through media during the season

HONORARY RECOGNITIONS

All selected participants will receive:

• An electronic certificate for international cooperation, contribution to the promotion of poetry through social networks, and support for literary criticism.
• For those included in the printed anthology and present at the official promotion — a printed certificate may also be awarded.

(Authors with whom no further cooperation is established will not receive certificates.)

Mili Dueli will continue publishing anthologies of contemporary poetry by its participants. More information on the next anthology will be announced after the season concludes.

 APPLICATION DEADLINE

February 28, 2026

The organizer will begin the selection of applications in October 2025, and the selected participants for the second round will be contacted via Facebook message if they pass the initial classification. The list of selected participants for the second round of the poetry competition will be published on March 1, 2026, on the official website of the competition.

All contest updates and detailed information will be published [HERE].

 WHAT IS MILI DUELI?

Mili Dueli is an international literary project that promotes culture, art, and tolerance through internet-based poetry. The project’s main activity is an online poetry contest for authors from the Balkans, diaspora, and the wider world.

The project was founded and inspired by the idea of Nermin Delić, a Bosnian-Herzegovinian writer and doctor of medicine.

The competition is held entirely online, consisting of five elimination rounds. In each round, poets submit a new poem, which is reviewed by an international jury composed of renowned Balkan artists and previous winners of Mili Dueli. The jury provides detailed literary feedback, suggestions, and evaluations — making this contest truly unique in the region.

In addition to the jury, readers, followers, and the authors’ supporters also participate in the decision-making process.

The jury evaluates only the poems submitted for the competition, without considering the rest of the author’s body of work — therefore, it’s important to submit your best work.

 RECOGNITION AND MEDIA SUCCESS

In 2018, Forbes, the world’s leading business magazine, featured Mili Dueli, calling it the most popular poetry contest in the former Yugoslavia.

That same year, for his essay on the project, organizer Nermin Delić received the GOI/UNESCO Peace Award in Japan. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, he was awarded the title Genius of the Year (on the Bosnian man of the year event) for his idea and voluntary work on the project. In 2022, he also received the Cultural Contribution Award from the Municipality of Jajce.

In 2013, Delić spent a month in the United States as part of the Youth Leadership Program sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 PAST WINNERS OF MILI DUELI

The previous winners of Mili Dueli are:
Dijana Stevanović Uherek (Serbia), Enea Hotić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Anđela Turukalo (Montenegro), Ante Jezerčić (Croatia), Lela Zjajo (Germany), Stefan Lazarević (Serbia), Iryna Fingerova (Ukraine), Nikola Ismail (Serbia), Sanja Balalić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Bozhana Slavkova (Bulgaria).

 STATISTICS & IMPACT

• Over 3,000 applications submitted in the past nine seasons
• More than 350 authors awarded with literary recognition
• Over 4,500 volunteer hours invested by the organizer
• More than 900 hours of jury work in evaluating poetry
• Website has surpassed 1.5 million visits — a remarkable achievement in an era when poetry is often overlooked

 CALL FOR COLLABORATION

Cultural associations, organizations, schools, and literary festivals across the Balkans that wish to collaborate with us — through literary visits, promotions, or workshops — are warmly invited to contact us.

 WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR POEMS!

Nermin Delić
Organizer of the Mili Dueli

Objava MILI DUELI 2025/26 – Free International Online Poetry Competition pojavila se prvi puta na Mili Dueli.

VRIJEME: 2020./2021. godina

ORGANIZATOR: Nermin Delić, pisac, doktor medicine.

Ukratko o sezoni 2020: Mili Dueli 2020 – online balkanski kontest poezije, u Prvom krugu je okupio 739 prijavljenih autora iz 52 zemlje svijeta. Kontest inspirisan idejom Nermina Delića, i ovaj put je već od starta prikazao zanimljiv koncept. U Prvom krugu koji je trajao od 1. juna do 30. juna 2020. godine, organizator kontesta Nermin Delić je imao zadatak da pregleda sve prijave i odabere okvirno 500 prijava koje će u narednom krugu biti predstavljene žiriju i čitaocima Milih Duela na društvenoj mreži Facebook.  Drugi krug je trajao od 12. jula do 24. avgusta 2020. godine. Više o organizaciji Drugog kruga možete pogledati ovdje.  3. oktobra 2020. godine, otpočeo je Treći krug u kojem je sudjelovalo TOP 250 autora. Više o organizaciji Trećeg kruga možete pogledati ovdje. Treći krug je završen 21. februara.

ORGANIZACIJA ČETVRTOG KRUGA

Datum početka Četvrtog kruga će biti naknadno objavljen. Ono što je sigurno jeste da nijedan duel neće biti istovremeno postavljen sa drugim duelima. Nakon završetka svakog duela će biti objavljeni rezultati, a tek onda će biti objavljen naredni duel. 

Broj duela i učesnika

U ovom krugu će biti predstavljeno 16 duela. Svaka balkanska zemlja će imati zasebno duel (ukupno 11 duela). Jedanaesti duel je unija balkanske dijaspore, a preostala četiri duela su kontinentalna (Afrika; Azija + Australija; Evropa; Sjeverna + Južna Amerika). U Četvrtom krugu imamo TOP 100 najboljih autora od 739 prijavljenih ove godine.

Raspored duela:

DUEL 1 – BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA
DUEL 2 – SRBIJA
DUEL 3 – HRVATSKA
DUEL 4 – CRNA GORA
DUEL 5 – SJEVERNA MAKEDONIJA
DUEL 6 – BUGARSKA
DUEL 7 – ALBANIJA
DUEL 8 – GRČKA
DUEL 9 – KOSOVO
DUEL 10 – RUMUNIJA
DUEL 11 – SLOVENIJA
DUEL 12 – BALKANSKA DIJASPORA
DUEL 13 – AFRIKA
DUEL 14 – AZIJA + AUSTRALIJA
DUEL 15 – EVROPA (vanbalkanske zemlje)
DUEL 16 – SJEVERNA AMERIKA I JUŽNA AMERIKA

U Četvrtom krugu autori će biti predstavljeni jednom pjesmom. Izbor pjesme autor će vršiti uz pomoć mentora. 

Mentorstvo

• Svaki član žirija Mili Dueli 2020 ima ulogu mentora.
• Odluku kome će određeni član žirija biti mentor donio je organizator vodeći se ocjenama koje su autori dobijali od žirija.
• Svaki autor će dobiti jednog mentora.
• Uloga mentora podrazumijeva ulogu pomagača autoru pri izboru pjesama, sve u svrhu boljeg plasmana autora.
• Mentor ima zadatak i da sarađuje sa autorom, ukaže na eventualne informatičke, gramatičke i stilske nepravilnosti autoru.
• Autor nije dužan da usvoji mišljenje mentora.
• Način slanja pjesme za 4. krug: Pjesma se šalje putem linka koji će svakom autoru dostaviti Organizator u privatnoj poruci (inboxu) na društvenoj mreži Facebook.
• Svi autori koji ne pošalju pjesmu u predviđenom roku, bit će automatski eliminisani.
• Saradnja za izbor pjesama traje 25 dana počevši od 20. marta/ožujka do 15. aprila / travnja. Prijava pjesme se može izvršiti u bilo kojem trenutku u istoimenom intervalu.

Raspored mentorstva i autora po duelima:

DUEL 1 – Bosna i Hercegovina

DUEL 2 – Srbija

DUEL 3 – Hrvatska

DUEL 4 – Crna Gora

DUEL 5 – Sjeverna Makedonija

DUEL 6 – Bugarska

DUEL 7 – Albanija

DUEL 8 – Grčka

DUEL 9 – Kosovo

DUEL 10 – Rumunija

DUEL 11 – Slovenija

DUEL 12 – Balkanska dijaspora

DUEL 13 – Afrika

DUEL 14 – Azija i Australija

DUEL 15 – Evropa (bez balkanskih zemalja)

DUEL 16 – Sjeverna Amerika i Južna Amerika

NAČIN GLASANJA ŽIRIJA I ČITALACA

Glasanje u Četvrtom krugu će vršiti Mili Dueli žiri i čitaoci.

1. Mili Dueli – žiri 

Pravila glasanja internacionalnog žirija Mili Dueli 2020

• U svakom duelu glasaju: Organizator, Mentor/i i Dodatni član/ovi žirija. Ukupan broj članova žirija u svakom duelu je 7.
• ORGANIZATOR: U svakom duelu 4. kruga glasa organizator. Organizator daje dvostruke evrovizijske poene. On vrši višemjesečnu opservaciju autora i njihovog stvaralaštva i svojim bodovima nagrađuje autore i njihove pjesme. Detaljnom analizom pjesme i autorovog predstavljanja do sada, Organizator će obrazložiti svaki svoj glas.
• MENTOR/I: U svakom duelu se nalaze autori kojima su dodijeljeni Mentori. Svaki autor ima jednog Mentora. Mentora je autoru dodijelio Organizator i ukoliko se autor i Mentor ne pronađu tokom izbora pjesama, autor može kontaktirati Oraganizatora u pomoć. Cilj mentorstva je uspostavljanje saradnje i književne interakcije autora regiona.  U jednom duelu (npr. duelu autora iz Bosne i Hercegovine), ulogu mentora mogu imati više članova našeg žirija, tako da svaki član žirija je Mentor određenom broju autora. Nikad jedan autor ne može imati dva ili više Mentora.  Pri glasanju, Mentor daje evrovizijske poene. Pritom, Mentor ocjenjuje sve autore učesnike tog duela, ne samo one koje je mentorisao. Rad Mentora je baziran na volontiranju i predstavlja dobru volju renomiranih književnika Balkana i pobjednika Milih Duela u ranijim sezonama u što kvalitetnijem predstavljanju i napredovanju naših autora.
• DODATNI ČLAN/OVI ŽIRIJA: Dodatni članovi žirija nisu Mentori. Oni će pročitati sve pjesme autora učesnika duela i glasati potpuno neovisno o mišljenju ostalih članova žirija. Njihov broj u duelima je varijabilan i zavisi od broja Mentora u određenom duelu. Ukoliko se radi o duelu autora iz BiH, oni, pored Organizatora, imaju ukupno 3 Mentora, a s obzirom da svaki duel mora imati po 7 članova žirija, Dodatnih članova žirija u ovom duelu je 3. Isto tako, u slučaju duela autora iz Rumunije, gdje uz Organizatora, ima samo 1 Mentor, da bi se postigla cifra od 7 članova žirija, imenovano je još 5 Dodatnih članova žirija. Dodatni članovi žirija glasaju bodovima 0, 1, 2 i 3. Navedene bodove Dodatni članovi žirija mogu dijeliti shodno utisku nakon pročitane pjesme, bez pravila o broju ponavljanja određenog boda. Tako, naprimjer, svi autori mogu dobiti po 3 boda, ali i po 0 bodova, ili se bodovi mogu podijeliti onako kako Dodatni član žirija smatra da je objektivno pravedno.

Raspored žiriranja po duelima:

2. Čitaoci

Pravila glasanja čitalaca

• Čitaoci glasaju putem dviju društvenih mreža Facebook i Instagram.
• FACEBOOK: Glasanje putem društvene mreže Facebook će se održati na zvaničnoj Facebook stranici Milih Duela koju možete posjetiti klikom OVDJE. Tu će svaka pjesma biti postavljena pojedinačno, a glasanje će biti putem oznake LIKE/SVIĐA MI SE (y) . Pritom, brojat će se glasovi isključivo od čitalaca koji prate istoimenu stranicu. Dakle, da bi glas bio validan, uvjet/uslov je da zapratite Facebook stranicu Mili Dueli. Svi pristigli lajkovi će se pregledati i autori će se u svakom duelu rangirati. Na osnovu toga, bit će im dodijeljeni evrovizijski bodovi.
• INSTAGRAM: Glasanje putem društvene mreže Instagram će se održati na zvaničnoj Instagram stranici Milih Duela koju možete posjetiti klikom OVDJE. Tu će svaka pjesma biti postavljena pojedinačno, a glasanje će biti putem oznake SRCE (<3). Pritom, brojat će se glasovi isključivo od čitalaca koji prate našu Instagram stranicu. Na osnovu broja (<3) autori će se u svakom duelu rangirati i bit će im dodijeljeni evrovizijski bodovi.

Način selekcije autora za posljednji, Peti krug (TOP 50) 

Prolazak

Posebne napomene za balkanske zemlje:

Svaka balkanska zemlja (BiH, Srbija, Hrvatska, Crna Gora, Sjeverna Makedonija, Bugarska, Albanija, Grčka, Kosovo, Rumunija i Slovenija) će dobiti svog pobjednika.  Autor koji osvoji prvo mjesto će dobiti specijalnu nacionalnu diplomu (i medalju) po završetku sezone.

Autori koji su osvojili PRVO, DRUGO i TREĆE mjesto iz BiH, Srbije, Hrvatske, Crne Gore, Sjeverne Makedonije, Bugarske i Albanije idu direktno u posljednji, peti krug (TOP 50).
Autori koji su osvojili PRVO i DRUGO mjesto iz Grčke, Kosova, Rumunije i Slovenije idu direktno u posljednji, peti krug (TOP 50).

Posebne napomene za balkansku dijasporu:
Autori koji su osvojili PRVO, DRUGO i TREĆE mjesto a dio su Balkanske dijaspore idu direktno u posljednji, peti krug (TOP 50). Autor koji osvoji prvo mjesto će dobiti specijalnu diplomu (i medalju) balkanske dijaspore po završetku sezone.

Posebne napomene za nebalkanske zemlje:

Ukupno je 33 autora iz vanbalkanskih zemalja. Nakon detaljne analize, mjesta za prolazak u finale će biti za njih 18. Pritom će se poštovati kontinentalni princip. Posebne diplome (i medalje) će se dodijeliti prvoplasiranima u Africi, Australiji i Aziji, Evrope i Sjevernoj i Južnoj Americi.

Ukupno, u Petom krugu će biti predstavljeno rekordnih 50 pjesama kroz interesantan slijed događaja. Peti krug će imati tri finalne večeri, dva Finala gdje će biti predstavljeno po 25 autora (od kojih će po 10 autora proći u Veliko finale) i jedno Veliko finale (Mili Dueli 2020 – Grand finals), gdje će biti predstavljeno 20 najboljih pjesama/autora od kojih će se birati najbolji. 

Svi rezultati će biti objavljeni na našoj zvaničnoj web-stranici.

O PETOM KRUGU – FINALU MILI DUELI 2020!

Očekuje se spektakularna organizacija koju još uvijek čuvamo u tajnosti.

ŠTA SADA? KOJI JE SLJEDEĆI KORAK?

Vaš prvi korak bi trebao biti da se javite svom mentoru i pošaljete mu Vaše pjesme za koje smatrate da bi Vas dobro predstavile u ovom krugu.
Ovdje je lista Facebook profila svih mentora, pronađite svog i javite mu se.

ANĐELA TURUKALO
SARAH ISUFI
LENA KYROPOULOS
ENEA HOTIĆ
DANJA GAŠPAR ĐOKIĆ 
SIMO GOLUBOVIĆ
MILČO MISOSKI
LJUBICA PETROVIĆ KOSOR
LELA ZJAJO
ZDRAVKO ODORČIĆ

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Mili DUELI (by Nermin Delić)
Online Balkan Poetry Contest
Town Jajce
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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Objava Mili Dueli 2020: Organizacija Četvrtog kruga pojavila se prvi puta na Mili Dueli.

TIME: 2020 /2021

ORGANIZER: Nermin Delić, writer, M.D.

Briefly about the 2020 season: Mili Dueli 2020 – an online Balkan poetry contest, gathered 739 registered authors from 52 countries in the First Round. The contest was inspired by the idea of Nermin Delic. This time it presented an interesting concept from the very beginning. In the first round, which lasted from June 1 to June 30, 2020, the organizer of the contest Nermin Delic had the task to review all applications and select approximately 500 applications that will be presented to the jury and readers of Mili Dueli on the social network Facebook (about 15 000 readers). The second round lasted from July 12 to August 24, 2020. You can see more about the organization of the Second Round here. On October 3, 2020, the Third Round began in which the TOP 250 authors participated. You can see more about the organization of the Third Round here. The third round ended on February 21.

ORGANIZATION OF THE FOURTH ROUND

The start date of the Fourth Round will be announced later. What is certain is that no duel will be set at the same time as other duels. After the end of each duel, the results will be announced, and only then will the next duel be announced.

Number of duels and participants: 16 duels will be presented in this round. Each Balkan country will have a separate duel (a total of 11 duels). The twelth duel is the union of the Balkan diaspora, and the remaining four duels are continental (Africa; Asia + Australia; Europe; North + South America). In the Fourth Round, we have the TOP 100 best authors out of 739 registered this year.

Duel schedule:

DUEL 1 – BALKAN – BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
DUEL 2 – BALKAN  – SERBIA
DUEL 3 – BALKAN – CROATIA
DUEL 4 – BALKAN – MONTENEGRO
DUEL 5 – BALKAN – NORTH MACEDONIA
DUEL 6 – BALKAN – BULGARIA
DUEL 7 – BALKAN – ALBANIA
DUEL 8 – BALKAN – GREECE
DUEL 9 – BALKAN – KOSOVO
DUEL 10 – BALKAN – ROMANIA
DUEL 11 – BALKAN – SLOVENIA
DUEL 12 – BALKAN DIASPORA
DUEL 13 – NON-BALKAN COUNTRIES –  AFRICA
DUEL 14 – NON-BALKAN COUNTRIES – ASIA AND AUSTRALIA
DUEL 15 – NON-BALKAN COUNTRIES – EUROPE
DUEL 16 – NON-BALKAN COUNTRIES – SOUTH AMERICA  AND NORTH AMERICA

In the Fourth Round, the authors will be presented with one poem. The author will choose the poem with the help of a mentor.

Mentoring

• Each member of the Mili Dueli 2020 jury has the role of mentor.
• The decision for whom a certain member of the jury will be a mentor was made by the organizer based on the grades that the authors received from the jury.
• Each author will receive one mentor.
• The role of mentor implies the role of helping the author in the selection of poems, all for the purpose of better placement of the author.
• The mentor also has the task of cooperating with the author, pointing out possible informational, grammatical and stylistic irregularities to the author.
• The author is not obliged to adopt the opinion of the mentor.
• How to send a poem for the 4th round: The poem is sent via a link that will be delivered to each author by the Organizer in a private message (inbox) on the social network Facebook.
• All authors who do not submit a poem within the stipulated time will be automatically eliminated.
  The collaboration for the selection of poems lasts for 25 days, starting from March 20 to April 15. The poems can be registered at any time after this publication.

Schedule of mentorship and authors by duels:

DUEL 1 – Bosna i Hercegovina

DUEL 2 – Srbija

DUEL 3 – Hrvatska

DUEL 4 – Crna Gora

DUEL 5 – Sjeverna Makedonija

DUEL 6 – Bugarska

DUEL 7 – Albanija

DUEL 8 – Grčka

DUEL 9 – Kosovo

DUEL 10 – Rumunija

DUEL 11 – Slovenija

DUEL 12 – Balkanska dijaspora

DUEL 13 – Afrika

DUEL 14 – Azija i Australija

DUEL 15 – Evropa (bez balkanskih zemalja)

DUEL 16 – Sjeverna Amerika i Južna Amerika

VOTING OF JURY AND READERS

Voting in the Fourth Round will be conducted by Mili Dueli Jury and readers.

1. Mili Dueli Jury

Voting rules of the international jury Mili Dueli 2020

• In each duel vote: Organizer, Mentor / s and Additional member / s of the jury. The total number of jury members in each duel is 7.
• ORGANIZER: In each duel of the 4th round, the organizer votes. The organizer gives double Eurovision points. He observes the authors and their work for several months and rewards the authors and their poems with his points. By a detailed analysis of the poem and the author’s presentation so far, the Organizer will explain each of his votes.
• MENTOR(S): In each duel there are authors to whom Mentors have been given. Each author has one Mentor. The mentor has been assigned to the author by the Organizer. If the author and Mentor are not interacting well during the selection of poems, the author can contact the Organizer for help. The goal of mentoring is to establish cooperation and literary interaction between the authors of the region. In one duel (eg. a duel of authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina), the role of mentor can be played by several members of our jury, so that some members of the jury are Mentors to a certain number of authors. One author can never have two or more Mentors. When voting, Mentor gives Eurovision points. At the same time, the Mentor evaluates all the authors who participated in that duel, not only the ones he/she mentored. The work of the Mentor is based on volunteering and represents the good will of renowned writers from the Balkans and the earlier winners of the Mili Dueli.
• ADDITIONAL JURY MEMBER(S): Additional members of the jury are not Mentors. They will read all the poems of the authors of the duel and vote completely independently of the opinion of the other members of the jury. Their number in duels is variable and depends on the number of Mentors in a particular duel. If it is a duel of Bosnian authors, they have a total of 3 Mentors + Organizer, and since each duel must have 7 members of the jury, Additional jury members in this duel is 3. Also, in the case of a duel of authors from Romania, where there is only 1 Mentor + Organizer, in order to achieve a figure of 7 members of the jury, 5 more Additional members of the jury were appointed. Additional members of the jury vote with points 0, 1, 2 and 3. These points Additional members of the jury can share according to the impression after reading the poems, without rules on the number of repetitions of a particular point. Thus, for example, all authors can receive 3 points, but also 0 points, or the points can be divided as the Additional member of the jury considers to be objectively fair.

Jury schedule by duels:

2. Readers

Readers’ voting rules

• Readers vote through the two social networks Facebook and Instagram.
• FACEBOOK: Voting via the social network Facebook will take place on the official Facebook page of Mili Dueli, which you can visit by clicking HERE. There, each poem will be posted individually, and voting will be via the LIKE (y) . The votes will be counted exclusively from the readers who follow our page. So, in order for the vote to be valid, the condition is that you follow the Mili Dueli Facebook page. All received likes will be reviewed and the authors will be ranked in each duel. Based on that, they will be awarded Eurovision points.
• INSTAGRAM: Voting via the social network Instagram will take place on the official Instagram page of Mili Dueli, which you can visit by clicking HERE. There, each poem will be posted individually, and voting will be via the HEART tag (<3). Votes will be counted exclusively from readers who follow our Instagram page. Based on the number (<3), the authors will be ranked in each duel and will be awarded Eurovision points.

Author selection method: Who will be in the last, Fifth round (TOP 50)?

Special notes for Balkan countries:

Each Balkan country (B&H, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Romania and Slovenia) will have a winner. The author who wins first place will receive a special national diploma (and medal) at the end of the season.

Authors who won FIRST, SECOND and THIRD places from BiH, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria and Albania go directly to the last, Fifth round (TOP 50).
Authors who won FIRST and SECOND place from Greece, Kosovo, Romania and Slovenia go directly to the last, fifth round (TOP 50).

Special notes for the Balkan diaspora:
Authors who won FIRST, SECOND and THIRD places and are part of the Balkan Diaspora go directly to the last, fifth round (TOP 50). The author who wins first place will receive a special diploma (and medal) from the Balkan Diaspora at the end of the season.

Special notes for non-Balkan countries:

There are a total of 33 authors from non-Balkan countries. After a detailed analysis, the places to go to the finals will be for 18 of them. Special diplomas (and medals) will be awarded to first place winners in Africa, Australia and Asia, Europe and North and South America.

In total, a record 50 authors will be presented in the Fifth Round through an interesting Final 1, Final 2 and Grand Final event. The Fifth round will have 3 final evenings, two Finals where 25 authors will be presented (of which 10 authors will go to the Grand Finals) and one Grand Final (Mili Dueli 2020 – Grand finals), where the 20 best authors will be presented. authors from whom the best one will be chosen.

All results will be published on our official website.

ABOUT THE FIFTH ROUND

A spectacular organization is expected that we still keep secret! – organizer promises to us.

SO, WHAT TO DO NOW? LET’S START!

The first thing you should do is to contact your mentor right now and send him a few (or one) of your poems in a private message on Facebook.
Here is their Facebook profiles, so just look for your mentor:

ANĐELA TURUKALO
SARAH ISUFI
LENA KYROPOULOS
ENEA HOTIĆ
DANJA GAŠPAR ĐOKIĆ 
SIMO GOLUBOVIĆ
MILČO MISOSKI
LJUBICA PETROVIĆ KOSOR
LELA ZJAJO
ZDRAVKO ODORČIĆ

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Mili DUELI (by Nermin Delić)
Online Balkan Poetry Contest
Town Jajce
71 202
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Objava Mili Dueli 2020: Organization Of The Fourth Round pojavila se prvi puta na Mili Dueli.

LOCATION OF MILI DUELI: The comfort of your home. All you need to do is follow the placement of your poem and the comments it received from the social media.

HEADQUARTERS OF MILI DUELI: Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina

TIME: SUMMER and AUTUMN 2020.

ORGANIZER: Nermin Delic, writer and doctor of medicine.

Mili Dueli 2020 – an online Balkan poetry contest, gathered 739 registered authors from 52 countries in the First Round. The contest was inspired by the idea of Nermin Delic, and this time it presented an interesting concept from the very beginning. In the first round, which lasted from June 1 to June 30, 2020, the organizer of the contest Nermin Delic had the task to review all applications and select approximately 500 applications that will be presented to the jury and readers of Mili Dueli on the social network Facebook. .

On July 4, 2020, it was published a list of selected authors to be presented in the Second Round of Mili Duels 2020. According to the list compiled by the organizer, 477 authors were selected for the further course of the contest. The second round lasted from July 12 to August 24, 2020. At the beginning of September, the results were published, and in the middle of September, the authors who passed sent poems for the next one – the Third Round, which is in front of us. You can see more about the organization of the Second Round here:

Mili Dueli 2020: Organization of the Second Round!

THIRD ROUND ORGANIZATION

The start date of the Third Round will be announced later.

Number of duels and participants: 9 duels will be presented in this round. Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia now have one duel each, compared to the previous round when they had 2 and 3, respectively, due to the number of participating authors. In the Third Round, we have the TOP 250 best authors out of 739 registered this year.

Jury members: The members of the jury were presented at the beginning of the season and there were no changes in the Third Round. Unlike the previous round, when they judged only one duel, in the Third Round, the obligations of the jury are complicated and judged in several duels. The exceptions are jury consultants for Greece and Albania, who judge only authors from those countries. You can see all the details about our jury members here:

Jury I Žiri

A Third Round poem? In the Third Round, the authors will be presented with ONE POEM that they sent to participate in the Third Round of Mili Dueli 2020. If they failed to send the poem within the deadline, the organizer will use the poem they sent as part of the application for Mili Dueli 2020.

The Third Round of Mili Duels 2020 will feature a total of 257 authors, divided into 9 national duels. The duels are composed on the basis of the geographical distribution of the authors, whether the authors live in the Balkans or are from the Balkan diaspora, or whether they are foreigners.

The schedule of the duel is as follows:

DUEL 1 – Bosnia and Herzegovina
DUEL 2 – Serbia
DUEL 3 – Croatia
DUEL 4 – Montenegro
DUEL 5 – Northern Macedonia
DUEL 6 – Bulgaria
DUEL 7 – Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Romania and Slovenia
DUEL 8 – Balkan Diaspora
DUEL 9 – Non-Balkan countries

DUEL 1 – Bosna i Hercegovina

DUEL 2 – Srbija

DUEL 3 – Hrvatska

DUEL 4 – Crna Gora

DUEL 5 – Sjeverna Makedonija

DUEL 6 – Bugarska

DUEL 7 – Albanija,Grčka, Kosovo, Rumunija i Slovenija

DUEL 8 – Balkanska dijaspora

DUEL 9 – Vanbalkanske zemlje

 VOTING SYSTEM OF JURY AND READERS

In the Third Round, both the jury and the readers vote. For each of the 9 duels of the Third Round, a President of the Jury (one or two) was appointed, and one or two Additional members of the Jury, who will perform further selection of authors.

The president of the jury was the primary selector of authors for participation in the Second Round. Additional members of the jury were added in order to evaluate the poems as authoritatively as possible.

This season’s jury evaluation in the Third Round of Mili Dueli will be performed in compliance with the following rules:

• All songs will be judged by 4 members of the jury.
• The grading method is grades 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.
• Each member of the jury has the right to give the grade he/she wants, regardless of how many times it will be repeated in the duel he is judging. The only exceptions are grades 1 and 2, which can only be used once in one duel.
• Each duel, out of a total of 9 duels, will have a different jury, according to the decision of the Organizer.
• The voting format looks like this:
  Organizer – Jury President – Additional jury member (2x)
  or in the case of Duel 1, Duel 2 and Duel 7 as follows:
  Organizer – Jury President (2x) – Additional jury member
• The role of the Additional Jury members is defined as follows: The Additional Jury member gives his / her grade and comment on the poem. Giving a grade is mandatory, and giving a comment is not.
• The role of the President of the Jury is defined as follows: The President of the Jury gives his grade and comment on the poem. Giving a grade is mandatory, as is giving a comment. If the Jury President fails to write comments on the poems, his grades will be verified as the grades of the Additional Jury Member.
• The role of the Organizer is defined as follows: The Organizer gives his assessment and comment on the poem and the perspective he sees in the authors when it comes to collaboration with Mili Dueli, as well as based on the reviews of the jury that form the backbone of Mili Dueli. Giving both ratings and comments is mandatory, for each author. If he notices that no one has given a comment to any author, the organizer is obliged to send a review of the poem by the author of the same name.

This season’s readers’ evaluation in the Third Round of Mili Duels will be performed in compliance with the following rules:

• All poems will be posted on the social network Facebook, on the official Mili Dueli page.
  * So, unlike the last round when voting was on the official profile, this time voting will be possible on the official Mili Duels Facebook page.
• The poems will be placed in the description of the pictures of the duel.
• Readers vote in the comments by entering the ordinal number under which the author is presented with the poem.
• Only the votes / comments of those who liked the page are counted !.
  * To ensure that your vote is valid, you can already like the page here:
  [custom-facebook-feed]
• At the end of the Third Round, the Organizer reviews all comments and records only those received from readers who liked the page.

Method of selection TOP 100

• The grades of the President of the Jury and the Additional Members of the Jury will be added up and the average grade will be drawn from them. To this average grade will be added the Organizer’s grade and the overall grade will be determined by the TOP 100 authors who pass to the next, Fourth Round (Semifinals).
• The president of the jury, if he/she follows the voting rules and sends his/her comments and ratings on the poems has a special right to send ONE author directly to the Semifinals. He/she may not use that right.
• Readers reward a total of 25 authors with the highest number of votes. The 3 authors with the highest number of votes will be awarded DIRECT passage to the Semifinals / Fourth Round, regardless of the votes of the jury. In addition, 22 more authors, in addition to the evaluation of the Organizer and the evaluation of the President of the Jury and the Additional Jury Member, will have a grade (5) by readers, which will certainly be of great help in the final selection as the maximum grade will improve their average.
• During the selection of the TOP 100, the national and continental principle will be valid, so that from the first 6 duels, a minimum of 5 authors must pass from each duel, and from Duel 7 at least 2 authors from each country. A minimum of 4 authors must pass from Duel 8 (Balkan Diaspora), and from Duel 9 (Non-Balkan countries), the Organizer is obliged to strive to respect the national and continental principle.

SPECIAL FIVE! The point is that we will reward all our authors who are close, from the same or neighboring city, and establish mutual cooperation in terms of socializing, with an additional grade 5 that will add up with other grades and thus help the authors reach the Semifinals (TOP 100) . All you have to do is send a photo from the gathering to the Organizer in the inbox and both authors from the photo will get a grade 5.

Note: Mili Dueli remind the authors that we are in the COVID pandemic season, and therefore, physical distance is recommended during the meeting, as well as wearing a mask and using disinfectants, and the author’s behavior in accordance with current regulations of the country in which they live.

Tabular presentation of all 12 duels with the jury schedule:

The results will be published on our official website.

ABOUT THE FOURTH ROUND – SEMIFINALS

After the Third Round, the list of TOP 250 authors will be reduced to the TOP 100 authors. Those hundred best authors will participate in the Semifinals – the penultimate round of our contest. The organization of the Semifinals will come out when the time comes, but what is known from the very beginning is that the semifinal round will be a mentoring round. This means that our top 100 authors will be given the opportunity to be mentored by our jury members. So, the authors will have the opportunity to work with one of our members on the selection and eventual correction of the poem for the Semifinals.

The semifinal round will surpass the one from the previous year. A spectacular organization is expected that we still keep secret.

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Mili DUELI (by Nermin Delić)
Online Balkan Poetry Contest
Town Jajce
71 202
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Objava Mili Dueli 2020: Third Round Organization pojavila se prvi puta na Mili Dueli.

LOKACIJA MILIH DUELA: Udobnost Vašeg doma. Potrebno je samo da preko društvenih mreža pratite plasman Vaše pjesme i komentare i žirija koje je dobila.

SJEDIŠTE MILIH DUELA:   Grad Jajce, Bosna i Hercegovina

VRIJEME: LJETO i JESEN 2020. godine.

ORGANIZATOR: Nermin Delić, pisac i doktor medicine.

Mili Dueli 2020 – online balkanski kontest poezije, u Prvom krugu je okupio 739 prijavljenih autora iz 52 zemlje svijeta. Kontest inspirisan idejom Nermina Delića, i ovaj put je već od starta prikazao zanimljiv koncept. U Prvom krugu koji je trajao od 1. juna do 30. juna 2020. godine, organizator kontesta Nermin Delić je imao zadatak da pregleda sve prijave i odabere okvirno 500 prijava koje će u narednom krugu biti predstavljene žiriju i čitaocima Milih Duela na društvenoj mreži Facebook. 

4. jula 2020. godine, objavljena je lista odabranih autora koji će biti predstavljeni u Drugom krugu Mili Dueli 2020. Prema listi koju je sastavio organizator, odabrano je 477 autora za dalji tok kontesta. Drugi krug je trajao od 12. jula do 24. avgusta 2020. godine. Početkom septembra su objavljeni rezultati, a sredinom septembra su autori koji su prošli slali pjesme za naredni – Treći krug, koji je pred nama. Više o organizaciji Drugog kruga možete pogledati ovdje.

ORGANIZACIJA TREĆEG KRUGA

Datum početka Trećeg kruga će biti naknadno objavljen. 

Broj duela i učesnika

U ovom krugu će biti predstavljeno 9 duela. Bosna i Hercegovina i Srbija sada imaju po jedan duel, u odnosu na prethodni krug kada su imale 2, odnosno 3, zbog brojnosti autora-učesnika. U Trećem krugu imamo TOP 250 najboljih autora od 739 prijavljenih ove godine.

Članovi žirija

Članovi žirija su predstavljeni na početku sezone i u Trećem krugu nije došlo do promjena. Za razliku od prethodnog kruga kada su žirirali isključivo jedan duel, u Trećem krugu obaveze žirija se usložnjavaju i žiriraju u više duela. Izuzetak su žiri-konsultanti za Grčku i Albaniju koji žiriraju samo autore koji su iz tih zemalja. Sve detalje o našim članovima žirija možete vidjeti ovdje:

Jury I Žiri

Pjesma Trećeg kruga? U Trećem krugu autori će biti predstavljeni sa po JEDNOM PJESMOM koju su poslali za učešće u Trećem krugu Mili Dueli 2020. Ukoliko nisu uspjeli u predviđenom roku poslati pjesmu, organizator će upotrijebiti pjesmu koju su poslali u sklopu prijave za Mili Dueli 2020.

U Trećem krugu Mili Dueli 2020 naći će se ukupno 257 autora, podijeljenih u 9 nacionalnih duela. Dueli su sastavljeni na osnovu geografske rasprostranjenosti autora, da li autori žive na Balkanu ili su balkanska dijaspora, ili se, pak, radi o strancima.

Raspored duela je sljedeći:

DUEL 1 – Bosna i Hercegovina
DUEL 2 – Srbija
DUEL 3 – Hrvatska
DUEL 4 – Crna Gora
DUEL 5 – Sjeverna Makedonija
DUEL 6 – Bugarska
DUEL 7 – Albanija,Grčka, Kosovo, Rumunija i Slovenija
DUEL 8 – Balkanska dijaspora
DUEL 9 – Vanbalkanske zemlje

DUEL 1 – Bosna i Hercegovina

DUEL 2 – Srbija

DUEL 3 – Hrvatska

DUEL 4 – Crna Gora

DUEL 5 – Sjeverna Makedonija

DUEL 6 – Bugarska

DUEL 7 – Albanija,Grčka, Kosovo, Rumunija i Slovenija

DUEL 8 – Balkanska dijaspora

DUEL 9 – Vanbalkanske zemlje

NAČIN GLASANJA ŽIRIJA I ČITALACA

U Trećem krugu glasaju i žiri i čitaoci. Svakom od ukupno 9 duela Trećeg kruga, imenovan je Predsjednik žirija (jedan ili dva), te po jedan ili dva Dodatna člana žirija, koji će vršiti dalju selekciju autora.

Predsjednik žirija je bio prevashodni selektor autora za učešće u Drugom krugu. Dodatni članovi žirija su dodani u cilju što mjerodavnije procjene pjesama.

Ovosezonsko ocjenjivanje žirija u Trećem krugu Mili Dueli bit će izvedeno uz poštivanje sljedećih pravila:

• Sve pjesme će biti ocjenjene od strane 4 člana žirija.
• Metod ocjenjivanja su ocjene  1, 2, 3, 4 ili 5.
• Svaki član žirija ima pravo dati ocjenu koju želi, bez obzira na to koliko će se ona puta ponavljati u duelu koji ocjenjuje. Izuzetak su samo ocjene 1 i 2 koje se mogu upotrijebiti samo jedanput u jednom duelu.
• Svaki duel, od ukupno 9 duela, imat će drugačiji saziv žirija, po odluci Organizatora.
• Format glasanja izgleda ovako:
  Organizator – Predsjednik žirija – Dodatni član žirija (2x)
  ili u slučaju Duela 1, Duela 2 i Duela 7 ovako:
  Organizator – Predsjednik žirija (2x) – Dodatni član žirija
• Uloga Dodatnih članova žirija je definisana na sljedeći način: Dodatni član žirija daje svoju ocjenu i komentar na pjesmu. Davanje ocjene je obavezno, a davanje komentara nije.
• Uloga Predsjednika žirija je definisana na sljedeći način: Predsjednik žirija daje svoju ocjenu i komentar na pjesmu. Davanje ocjene je obavezno, kao i davanje komentara. Ukoliko Predsjednik žirija ne uspije napisati komentare na pjesme, njegove ocjene će biti verifikovane kao ocjene Dodatnog člana žirija.
• Uloga Organizatora je definisana na sljedeći način: Organizator daje svoju ocjenu i komentar na pjesmu i perspektivu koju vidi u autorima kada je saradnja sa Mili Dueli u pitanju, kao i na osnovu osvrta žirija koji čine okosnicu Milih Duela. Davanje i ocjene i komentara je obavezno, za svakog autora. Ukoliko primjeti da nekom autoru niko nije dao komentar, organizator je dužan da uputi osvrt na pjesmu istoimenog autora.Organizator zadržava pravo konsultacije sa Predsjednikom žirija i pregleda komentara žirija u cilju što mjerodavnije procjene.

Ovosezonsko ocjenjivanje čitalaca u Trećem krugu Mili Dueli bit će izvedeno uz poštivanje sljedećih pravila:

• Sve pjesme će biti postavljene na društvenoj mreži Facebook, na oficijalnoj stranici Mili Dueli.
  * Dakle, za razliku od prošlog kruga kada je glasanje bilo na zvaničnom profilu, ovoga puta će glasanje biti moguće na zvaničnoj stranici Mili Dueli na Facebooku. 
• Pjesme će biti postavljene u opisu slika duela.
• Čitaoci glasaju u komentarima upisivanjem rednog broja pod kojim je autor predstavljen sa pjesmom.
• Broje se isključivo glasovi/komentari onih koji su lajkovali stranicu!.
  *Da biste osigurali da Vaš glas bude validan, već ovdje možete lajkovati stranicu:
  [custom-facebook-feed]
• Na kraju Trećeg kruga, Organizator pregleda sve komentare i bilježi samo one koji su pristigli od čitalaca koji su lajkovali stranicu.

Način selekcije TOP 100

• Ocjene Predsjednika žirija i Dodatnih članova žirija će biti sabrane i iz njih će se izvući prosječna ocjena. Na tu prosječnu ocjenu će se dodati ocjena Organizatora i ukupna ocjena će odrediti TOP 100 autora koji prolaze u naredni, Četvrti krug (Polufinale).
• Predsjednik žirija, ukoliko ispoštuje pravila glasanja i uputi svoje komentare i ocjene na pjesme, ima specijalno pravo da JEDNOG autora direktno pošalje u Polufinale. To pravo može da i ne iskoristi.
• Čitaoci nagrađuju ukupno 25 autora sa najvećim brojem glasova. 3 autora sa najvećim brojem glasova će biti nagrađeni DIREKTNIM prolaskom u Polufinale/Četvrti krug, bez obzira na glasove žirija. Pored toga, još 22 autora će pored ocjene Organizatora i ocjene Predsjednika žirija i Dodatnog člana žirija, imati ubrajanu ocjenu (5) od strane čitalaca, što će im svakako biti od velike pomoći pri finalnoj selekciji budući da će im maksimalna ocjena popraviti prosjek.
• Prilikom selekcije TOP 100 će vrijediti nacionalni i kontinentalni princip, tako da iz prvih 6 duela, iz svakog duela ponaosob mora proći minimalno po 5 autora, a iz Duela 7 minimalno po 2 autora iz svake zemlje. Iz Duela 8 (Balkanska dijaspora) mora proći minimalno 4 autora, a iz Duela 9 (Vanbalkanske zemlje), Organizator je dužan da teži poštovanju nacionalnog i kontinentalnog principa.

POSEBNA PETICA! Riječ je o tome da ćemo sve naše autore koji su blizu, iz istog ili susjednog su grada, i uspostave međusobnu saradnju u smislu druženja, nagraditi dodatnom ocjenom 5 koja će se zbrajati sa ostalim ocjenama i time pomoći autorima da dostignu Polufinale (TOP 100). Dovoljno je samo da, u inboks Organizatoru, pošaljete zajedničku sliku sa druženja/susreta i oba autora sa slike će dobiti naknadno ocjenu 5.

Napomena: Mili Dueli podsjećaju autore da smo u sezoni COVID-pandemije, te se stoga, pri susretu preporučuje fizička distanca, te nošenje maske i upotreba dezinficijensa, te ponašanje autora u skladu sa aktualnim propisima države u kojoj žive.

Tabelarni prikaz svih 12 duela sa rasporedom žiriranja:

Rezultati će biti objavljeni na našoj zvaničnoj web-stranici.

O ČETVRTOM KRUGU – POLUFINALU

Nakon Trećeg kruga, lista TOP 250 autora će se smanjiti na TOP 100 autora. Tih sto najboljih autora će sudjelovati u Polufinalnu – pretposljednjem krugu našeg kontesta. Organizacija Polufinala će izaći kada za to dođe vrijeme, ali ono što je poznato već od samog starta jeste da će polufinalni krug biti mentorski krug. To znači da će naših sto najboljih autora dobiti priliku da budu mentorisani od strane naših članova žirija. Dakle, autori će imati priliku da sa jednim od naših članova rade na izboru i eventualnoj korekciji pjesme za Polufinale.

Polufinalni krug će nadmašiti onaj iz prethodne godine. Očekuje se spektakularna organizacija koju još uvijek čuvamo u tajnosti.

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©2020

Mili DUELI (by Nermin Delić)
Online Balkan Poetry Contest
Town Jajce
71 202
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Objava Mili Dueli 2020: Organizacija Trećeg kruga pojavila se prvi puta na Mili Dueli.

Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe

Date: February 20, 2020

PUBLIC CALL

We are inviting all affirmed and non-affirmed poets from whole the world to participate in the most popular online poetry contest in this part of Europe – called Mili Dueli (Sweet Duels). Participation is related with promoting poetry and multicultural dialogue between artists all across the planet, especially between Balkans nations. Authors are presented on official Facebook profile of Mili Dueli and there, they have opportunity to meet each other, exchange their knowledge and get prizes. During seven seasons we presented more than 1 500 authors from more than 45 countries across the world. If you are so far from Bosnia and Herzegovina, do not worry! We are very welcome to host you as an author and your country and meet your culture. Our jury is international and we are promoting diversity.

How to apply?

APPLICATION CONDITIONS

Milli Dueli (eng. Sweet Duels) are international in character, and authors from any part of the world can apply for the competition without age restriction. The only condition for application is that you are the author of the poetry you are submitting to the competition.
Note: Earlier Mili Dueli participants can apply again. The exception is the winners of the previous seven seasons who can no longer participate in the Contest.

APPLICATION METHOD

You can apply for the competition by clicking HERE.

There are detailed guidelines on what information you need about yourself and the poems you submit.
(If you have a trouble to apply in that link, you could try our second link for applies by clicking HERE.)

Participation in the competition is completely free!

AWARDS

Grand Prize: Plaque + Laureate “Mili Dueli” (“Poet of the Year by Mili Dueli 2020”) – for 1st place
* The award is presented next year, during the summer.

Other awards:
– A plaque for the top ten places won in the finals of the Contest
– Plaque for best placement of the Balkan state (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania)
– Plaque for the best placement of the Balkans diaspora (Balich Award).

Special recognition:

– Al Buqain Award – for the person who, over the course of the season, was most prominent in promoting the international cooperation of writers through the media, in accordance with the mission of the Mili Dueli Project. The award includes a plaque.

– Aga Award – A special recognition in the final, awarded for the most viewed video clip of a poetry author, in honor of the tragically suffering finalist of Mili Dueli 2019, Nermin Aganovic. The award includes a plaque.

Revial recognition: 

Each author who is selected to participate in Milli Dueli receives electronic and / or print (depending on participation in the collection and coming to the promotion planned in the future) Prize for international cooperation, literary contribution of placing the written word through social networks, and encouraging development literary criticism in this region during 2020.
*Authors we do not collaborate with will not be recognized.

Note: An electronic poetry compilation of the author and literary criticism of the jury on their works will be published this season. Further details and a call will be released on the details of the great print collection of Mili Dueli participants from this and previous seasons.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 31, 2020

The organizer will, in June / June, select the most successful entries and attendees of “Mili Dueli 2020” who will be notified by message on their Facebook profile if they pass the initial classification.

You can follow all the competition details HERE.

ABOUT MILI DUELI

Mili Dueli is a project to promote culture, art and tolerance in the Balkans. Its main feature is the poetry contest of Balkan authors, diaspora authors and foreign poetry authors. The project was founded and inspired by the idea of Nermin Delic, a Bosnian writer.

The poetry contest you are planning to apply for is in online formation. Follow everything from the comfort of your home, through the social network Facebook and our official website! Contest is made up of five elimination rounds. The authors submit a new poem to each successive circle that they pass, which they review and evaluate through literary review with an international jury composed of renowned Balkan artists across the region, and of the earlier winners of Mili Dueli. In addition to the jury, the decision as to who goes into the next rounds is made by our regular readers who follow us, as well as the authors’ friends. The Contest is unique in that it gives the jury comprehensive commentary, guidance and reasoning for their votes; which is not the case in any other regional poetry competition. Therefore, this is a great opportunity for anyone who wants literary criticism on their poems. The project is a great opportunity for young, unconfirmed authors to come to the fore, but also for affirmed, older authors, to validate success. The jury only evaluates the poems that the author submits to the competition, without insight into the other works of the author, and it is therefore important that you submit your best poems.

In the previous year,  the most famous business magazine in the world – American Forbes, wrote about the Mili Dueli project which characterized it as the most popular poetry contrast in the former Yugoslavia. Also, in 2018, for the essay on acting through the project, the organizer Nermin Delić was awarded the UNESCO Peace Prize in Japan. The same year, in Bosnia and Herzegovina he was awarded the Genius of the Year award for his idea and volunteer work on the project at the Bosnia and Herzegovina – Men of the Year Award. More details can be found on Bosnian language HERE. In 2013, the organizer also spent a month in the US educating under the US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina Youth Leadership Program.

From the seven previous seasons, these are the winners of Mili Dueli: Dijana Stevanovic Uherek (Serbia), Enea Hotic (BiH), Angela Turukalo (Montenegro), Ante Jezercic (Croatia), Lela Zjajo (Germany), Stefan Lazarevic (Serbia), Iryna Fingerova (Ukraine) and Nikola Ismail (Serbia).

Over the course of these seven seasons, over 2500 applications have been submitted for participation in the Mili Dueli, and we have awarded over 100 authors to our highest literary awards. The previous year, organizer spent over 700 hours of volunteer work on the project. Also, jury spent over 200 hours of volunteer work on the poetry evaluation. The website visitor count surpassed the figure of 500,000,000 over the last three months. It seems as a special success in the era of unpopular poetry reading!

There is no doubt that the Mili Dueli have become a real internet sensation for discovering new talented poets and for stimulating their creativity. This is a unique opportunity for new acquaintances of similar people who live near and far and who have the same hobby – writing.

Each year, the concept of the Contest is identical, but the rules from season to season and from round to round change, for the sake of interaction, interest, euphoria, and maximum objectivity, since everyone who works on the project volunteers for free. For culture, tolerance and poetry…

All cultural associations throughout the Balkans who would like to cooperate with us, in the form of literary visits, promotional organizations, are welcome to contact us.

We are waiting for you!

Mili Dueli

MILI DUELI 2020
Online Balkan Poetry Contest 

Made in Bosnia and Herzegovina
70202 Jajce

Objava MILI DUELI 2020 – International poetry competition (free entry)! pojavila se prvi puta na Mili Dueli.