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Competitions & Submissions
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The Plunkett Short Story Award
The Plunkett Short Story Award was launched in 2013 in association with the Irish Writers’ Centre to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Lockout and was named for the IWU founder-member and key social commentator, James Plunkett. The ICTU has recognised ‘the exceptional contribution made to mark the centenary anniversary of the 1913 Lockout’ through the Plunkett Award. |
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Following the great success of the 2013 competition, the Irish Writers' Union, in association with the Irish Writers' Centre, are pleased to announce the launch of the 2014 James Plunkett Short Story Award.
The judge for the 2014 competition will be Booker and IMPAC nominee Donal Ryan and the winners will be announced at a ceremony at the Irish Writers’ Centre on Tuesday 4 November 2014.
More about the Plunkett Short Story Award
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The 2014 Plunkett Short Story Award is now open to entries.
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Prizes: First Prize: €2,000 / Second Prize: €1,000 / Third Prize: €500
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There is no restriction on theme or genre. Entrants are simply asked to recall Plunkett's skill as a social commentator when writing.
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Closing date: Friday,12 September 2014
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Entries should be between 1,000 and 3,000 words
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Entries should be addressed to: The Irish Writers' Union, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
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There is no limit on the number of submissions an entrant can make.
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Entry costs €10 per submission. Please make cheques payable to the Irish Writers' Union.
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A long list of 30 entries will be published on the website of the Irish Writers' Union before the winning entrants will be selected.
For more details, please visit www.ireland-writers.com |
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RASP |
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The call is for a new anthology, 'Disobedience', which will be a collection of work by dyslexic writers that will focus on the theme of ‘disobedience and subversion’. That is, the way in which dyslexics are perceived to be defiant and disobedient when 'difference' is misunderstood, or misinterpreted and the kinds of affect this has on ones self-image, sense of self and meaning making. The purpose is twofold, first to give a voice to writers marginalised by prejudices Second, to provide a fresh approach to thinking about dyslexia by opening up a critical debate about authorship.
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Writing4all.ie: A Small, Good Thing Short Story Competition |
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Writing4all.ie have announced a new short story contest. A Small, Good Thing Short Story Competition is a monthly short story competition that accepts (via email or post) short stories of up to 3000 words max. Entry is €3 (€5 for two stories). The prize is €100 and publication in the Writing4all: Best of 2012 anthology.
The competition has been set up in response to the long waiting times that writers suffer when submitting work to journals and competitions. Winners are announced mid-month, so unsuccessful authors don’t have to wait too long until they can submit elsewhere.
The competition opens on May 1, 2012, with the May winner announced in mid-June.
Terms & Conditions
- A monthly competition for short stories (3000 words max).
- Entry: €3 to enter one story, €5 to enter two stories.
- Prize: €100; winning stories published in the Writing4all: Best of 2012 Anthology.
- Winners announced mid-month, (so if you don’t win, you don't have to wait an age to submit your stories to other competitions and magazines)
- You can submit by post/email.
- By post: A Small Good Thing Short Story Competition, Writing4all, Spade Enterprise Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
- By email: Please send as .doc attachments to asgt@writing4all.ie, with the subject title: A short story for your consideration (amend as appropriate for multiple stories)
- If paying by paypal, please quote your payment number (which will look something like 98B96318D4186023G) in the email/cover letter
- If paying by cheque/postal order, please make them payable to Writing4all Ltd
- Unpublished stories only. Stories that have appeared on ‘workshopping’ sites like Writing4all are, however, eligible.
- English language only, sorry. We’ll let you know if we learn any other languages.
Any questions, please contact Thomas Morris; thomas@writing4all.ie
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Brit Writers' Awards - Monthly Picture the Story Writing Competition |
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This new monthly competition will feature a selected photograph and entrants will be invited to tell us what they think it says… Submit a story, poem or song in no more than 300 words. Challenge your creative writing skills, join in and have a go!
The rules? There aren’t any, just be as creative as you can.
The winner will be announced at the end of April and will receive a high quality mounted print of the image, thanks to our partners, RKL Photography. We will also include the winning piece in the following month’s e-bulletin and on our website.
This monthly competition is free to enter and the deadline for this month is Thursday 31st May 2012 at 5.00pm. Please email your submissions to picturethestory@britwriters.co.uk or send it through the form below.
For more information click here>>>>
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Telegraph Short Story Club. |
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The Telegraph is running a short story writing club on its My Telegraph social site. Join up to share work with other writers and for the chance to be published by The Telegraph, win £500 and be invited for lunch with top publishers.
For more information click here>>>>
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Ó Bhéal Five Words International Poetry Competition |
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(closing date 27th January 2015)
Prize: 500 euro plus Reading
Each week on Tuesday at midday (GMT), as of the 14th of April 2014, five words are posted on the Ó Bhéal competition page at www.obheal.ie. Entrants have one week to compose and submit poems that must include all five words for that week. At noon the following Tuesday, these words are no longer eligible, and replaced with five new words. The competition will run for a total of forty-one weeks, until the last week of January 2015.
A single prize of 500 euro will be awarded to one winner, and if available, then invited to read at Ó Bhéal’s seventh anniversary event, on Monday 13th of April 2015 (an additional travel fee of 100 euro plus B&B accommodation will be provided for this). A shortlist of twelve poems including the overall winner will be announced during the first week of March, 2014.The shortlisted poems and winning entry will also be published in Five Words Vol VIII – the next annual anthology of five word poems, launched at the same event.
Judges for this year's competition are Jennifer Matthews and Billy Ramsell.
Click here for to enter and for submission guidelines
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| 30.04.13 |
Rubery Book Award |
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First Prize £1000 (approx 1599 US$, 1233€ )
The winning book will also be read by a top literary agent from MBA
2nd prize £200(approx 320 US $, 246€)
3rd prize £75 (approx 120 US$, 92€)
Closing date is 30th April 2013.
For more information click here>>>> |
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Entries will be acknowledged only if accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope
* All work must be previously unpublished
* Please keep poems to a maximum of 35 lines
* To ensure impartiality in judging, please do not write your name on the page with your poem.
For more information click here>>>> |
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The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition |
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The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition is an annual short story competition dedicated to one of Ireland’s most accomplished story writers and theorists, sponsored by the Munster Literature Centre, and is now open for submissions to writers from around the world.
First prize is €2000, publication in Southword Journal, and a week's residency at Anam Cara Writers' Retreat. (Prize money will be converted to the winner's currency. First prize was equivalent to $2602.11 on xe.com April 10 2013.)
Second prize is €500 and publication in Southword Journal, and 4 runners-up will receive payment for publication in Southword Journal.
If the first prize winner comes to Cork, Ireland, to collect their prize, we will lavish them with hotel accommodation, meals, drinks and VIP access to the literary stars at the Cork International Short Story Festival (18-22 September 2013).
Deadline: 31 July 2013. Judge: Joyce Russell.
For more information visit the Munster Literature website>>>
Or the Seán Ó Faoláin Competition Facebook page |
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The WOW! Award |
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The WOW! Award is back with €2100 in Prize money plus publication
Prizes for fiction and poetry. Stories up to 3000 words. Poems up to 100 lines.
Entries open July 1st 2013 and close November 1st 2013.
Results, prize-giving and Anthology launch Friday February 28th 2014
Submit by email or by post
Email address: award@wordsonthewaves.com
Postal address: Wordsonthewaves, 6 San Antonio Park, Salthill, Galway, Ireland
Winners in both fiction and in poetry will each receive:
€750 1st Prize plus publication in the 2014 WOW! Anthology.
€150 2nd Prize plus publication in the 2014 WOW! Anthology.
10 short-listed entrants (5 fiction and 5 poetry) will be published in the 2014 WOW! Anthology and will receive a publication fee of €30.
For full submission details, entry fee and information on the WOW! Anthology click on to the web address:
www.wordsonthewaves.com |
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