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Competitions
 
     
Ongoing The Lonely Voice: Short Story Introductions  
  Monthly short story competition and reading at the Irish Writers' Centre.  
  Free entry.  
     
Deadline: 27.01.12 Trócaire Poetry Ireland Poetry Competition  
 

The Trócaire / Poetry Ireland Poetry Competition will be judged by John F Deane,Éamonn Meehan and Mary Shine Thompson. The deadline for entries is Friday 27 January 2011.

For more information and an entry form for the Trócaire / Poetry Ireland Poetry Competition, visit here.

 
     
Deadline: 17.02.12

From The Well Short Story Competition

 
 

The Cork County Library and Arts Service has just launched their 2012 “From The Well” Short Story competition. The competition is open to people aged 18 or over who are registered library members. The stories must be fiction and must not be more than 2,000 words.
The entries must be typed. No handwritten entries will be accepted.

                                                Conditions of Entry

- Stories must not be more than 2,000 words.
- The story must be fictional and may be on any subject
- All entrants must be a registered library member.
- Entrants may submit one short story.
- Stories must be the original work of the author. Stories must not have been previously published or, accepted for future publication elsewhere.
- Stories must be typed on A4 paper
- All entries must be accompanied by an entry form. The name of the entrant must not appear on the story itself.
- 20 stories will be shortlisted by a panel of judges. Winning entries to be announced in March/April
- The Judges’ decision is final

The winning prize will be a place on a week long writing workshop at the West Cork Literary festival 2012 in Bantry.

Copyright of each story will remain with the author but Cork County Library and Art Service reserves the right to one publication and/or one broadcast of shortlisted stories

Submission of a story automatically deems acceptance of each of the above conditionsThe closing date for receipt of applications at the Arts Office is Friday 17th February 2012

For further information please contact Sinead Donnelly, County Arts Office on
021-4346210 sinead.donnelly@corkcoco.ie
 

 
     
Deadline: 01.03.12 BARE HANDS INTERNATIONAL POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION 2012  
 

We’ve launched a competition. Not just any competition. Let me tell you why

Promoting your work is not an easy feat. You can do things online but it’s nice to have something in print, something you can put on your wall, like a postcard…

So the idea is the winning poems and photographs of the competition will be turned into a beautiful postcard (we pride ourselves on our design) AND we will distribute these postcards to leading independent bookshops in Dublin, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto & Vancouver. We’re not kidding. And they'll be free so people can just pick them up - we won't be selling them.

There will be two winners in each category - two poems and two photographs - so two different postcards will be created. We will make 2000 of each. Your work will be sent all around the world. The winning entries will also be published on our website too.

The theme is BARE HANDS

DEADLINE MARCH 1st 2012

HOW TO ENTER

Entries are €4 for one entry. Multiple entries are accepted.

To pay simply click the BUY NOW button on our site http:// barehandspoetry.tumblr.com/

All competition entries should be emailed to barehandspoetry@gmail.com

Poetry entries

Poems must be unpublished and not be entered into any other competition. Poems should be no longer than 20 lines long (has to fit on the postcard!) Send your poem within the body of an email (no attachments please). Put your name at the end of the poem. Mark the subject field COMPETITION ENTRY POETRY

Photography entries

Photographs must not have appeared in any online or print journal. Put your name in the body of an email. Attach your entry as a jpeg and mark the subject field COMPETITION ENTRY PHOTOGRAPHY.

The winners will be announced at the end of March.

Postcards will be created and distributed in May!

 
     
Deadline 20.03.12 Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2012  
  The ten best stories will be published in the 2012 Fish Anthology.
First Prize €1,000.
Word limit 300.
Opens 1 August 2011. Closes 20 March 2012. Results announced 30 April 2012.
Entry €14. Critique €30
 
     
Deadline: 30.03.12 Fish Poetry Prize 2012  
  Judge: Billy Collins.
The ten best poems will be published in the 2012 Fish Anthology.
First Prize €1,000.
Second Prize - a week at Anam Cara Writers & Artists Retreat in West Cork's Beara Peninsula.
Word limit 200.
Opens 1 August 2011. Closes 30 March 2012. Results announced 30 April 2012.
Entry €14. Critique €30
 
     
Deadline: 31.03.12 The International Rubery Book Award  
 

For Independently published and self-published books.

First Prize: £800
Second Prize: £150
Third Prize: £50

This year's judges are: Alan Mahar, Jeff Phelps, Pauline Morgan and Simon Cheshire.

All genres welcome.
submissions@ruberybookaward.com

For terms and conditions and an online entry form click here>>>>

 
     
Deadline: 30.04.12

Nature Poetry Competition 2011

 
 

PRIZES

1st: £1000

2nd: £400

3rd: £300

ADDITIONAL PRIZE: a personal tour with Mark Cocker of his most cherished places in East Anglia.

The winning poems will be published in The Rialto Britain's leading independent poetry magazine.

ENTRY FEES: £6 for your first poem, £3 for each subsequent poem.

JUDGES: Sir Andrew Motion and  Mark Cocker.

For more information: www.rspb.uk ; www.therialto.co.uk 

 
     

 

 
         
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