Short Story Award

 

Got a story? The international Sean O Faolain Short Story Prize is open for entries - first prize is €2,000 (approx $2760/£1640) , publication in Southword and a week in Anam Cara Writers centre. Deadline is July 31st, you can find out more Here

Literary Competitions

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For Short Stories -

The Sean O Faolain Prize is open for submission till the 31st July. The judge is Joyce Russell.You can find out more here - The Sean O Faolain Prize

For Poems -

The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award for a first unpublished collection is open till the 26th July. You can send 20 poems (but they have to be less than 40 lines each) ... the judge is Brian Lynch and you can find out more Here.

`A Load of Rubbish` hits Harper Collins Editors Desk

A LOAD OF RUBBISH

Congratulations to my creative writing classmate Helena Duggan http://helddesign.blogspot.com/ whose novel for children, "A load of Rubbish" has reached the editors desk at the Harper Collins site Authonomy. http://www.authonomy.com/ Their stated aim is to "flush out the brightest, freshest new writing talent around". I'm delighted for Helena, her novel is fantastic.

SEAN O FAOLAIN SHORT STORY COMP
The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition is now open for submissions -

The judge for 2010 is Short Review founder and editor Tania Hershman and she blogs at TaniaWrites http://www.titaniawrites.blogspot.com/.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
unpublished short stories of 3,000 words or less.

Judging for this competition is ANONYMOUS. The entrant's name and contact details must be on a separate piece of paper.

Each entry must be accompanied by an entry fee of €15, US $20 or £15.

Closing date is 31st July 2010.

Entries must be sent to The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition, The Munster Literature Centre, Frank O'Connor House, 84 Douglas Street, Cork, Ireland

http://www.munsterlit.ie/

BOYNE BERRIES 7

Boyne Berries 7 was launched last week in Trim. There was a big turn out and twenty contributers read, I was delighted to have my prose piece, Lady Slice published in this edition of the magazine. I was really struck by Aideen Henry's prose piece and how she read. There's a lot of variety in this issue, extracts can be read at http://www.boynewriters.com/mag