Terms of Use

Please read carefully the terms and conditions to which you are agreeing. This booking form is a binding agreement between PIA and your school.

PAYMENT

You agree to be charged for your booking as per the student numbers recorded on this form. It is not our policy to amend your invoice/s if actual attendance numbers are fewer on the day of the performance/s, or if you request to lessen student numbers after signing.

If you have concerns regarding this policy consider revising your booking numbers down by 10% on this form before submission. The school is liable to make any payments by due dates.

If additional students over the booked number attend on the day of the performance, PIA will send an uptick invoice afterwards to cover the extra attendees at the same per head rate as the original booking.

CONTACT TEACHERS AND STUDENT NUMBERS

It is the booking teacher’s responsibility to ensure student numbers are accurate, payment is organised and the school is notified of the booked activities.

If a booking teacher leaves the school, it is their responsibility to inform PIA of a new contact.

CANCELLATIONS

By signing this form you are agreeing to a minimum 50% payment based on our terms and conditions.

Cancellations must be made in writing to PIA. Please email [email protected]

If a cancellation is made with more than 8 school weeks to the performance the school will forfeit 50% of their total booking value.

For cancellation requests that are made with less than 8 weeks to the scheduled PIA performance, the school hereby agrees to pay the full value of the booking, regardless of current payment status.

By entering a poem into the Poetry In Action (PIA) Poetry competition, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions.

1. Your poem must not include your full name. Names of places and/or first names of people are, on the whole, acceptable. Just be sure there are no words in the poem that identify you as the poet.
2. Entry is online only. You can enter via our website.
3. Entries must be the original work of the applicant and must not be published in any form or currently offered for publication or submitted for any other prize. All authors must provide their own name on the entry form for administrative purposes. If you would prefer your poem to be published under a pseudonym, please note it on the entry form.
4. All entries must be original. AI entries will be disqualified immediately, and the school of the entrant notified.
5. The line limit is 30 maximum. Note: The 30-line limit includes titles and any sub-headings. There is no minimum number of lines.
6. Staff of PIA and their family members are not eligible to enter the PIA Poetry competition.
7. The judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into with either the judges, the staff or the board of PIA.
8. By entering the PIA Poetry competition, the author gives permission to PIA to publish his/her poem. The copyright to the poem is always retained by the author. As publisher of the PIA Poetry Competition will have First Publication Rights to all submitted poems and may use any title or phrase from any entry for the purpose of promoting the competition. Any collection or publication subsequent to the PIA Poetry competition that includes the author’s poem should acknowledge PIA.
9. Award winners may be required to participate in social media releases associated with the competition.
10. PIA cannot be held responsible for errors by entrants entering this competition.
11. By supplying your contact details you agree to us sending you opt-out correspondence.
12. Once the competition entry closes, all submissions will be crosschecked for plagiarism.
13. First Prize wins AU$1000 and their winning poem will be published on our website and/or social media, and used (chosen sections of the poem or the full poem) in a performance in the following year’s tour. Second prize will win AU$500. Third place winner will win AU$250. They will be announced in our Newsletter and on our PIA Instagram page which is also published live on our website.