The People's College Short Story Competition is open for submissions and I'm delighted to be judging the entries. Here's wha...

  Got a story? The international Sean O Faolain Short Story Prize is open for entries - first prize is €2,000 (approx $2760/£1640) ,...

I'm very excited to be judging this new competition from the organiser's of the infamously fabulous Swift Festival! The Battl...

  Anne Enright, previous winner & one of this years judges A note for your diaries short story writers… The Davy Byrnes Aw...

And from the makers of Crannog ... the WOW Awards are back! There is €2100 in prize money plus publication. For: Stories up to 3000...

Niamh Boyce 2009 Do you have some stories ready to go out into the world? Here are some of the many competitions you could take a chanc...

Fish Short Story Prize 2012/13 (€3,000)  Philip O'Ceallaigh   will select the best ten stories for publication in the  2013...

I never outline or plan in the early stages because I love that sense of discovery that comes when writing a first draft. Although this does...

Run by Reader's Digest - the deadline is Jan 31st, the prize is £1,000 and its FREE to enter. For more information click HERE

A me, me post ! The stories shortlisted for RTE Radio Ones 2011 Francis MacManus Awards are now available to listen to HERE . (They last app...

This competition has a longer max word count than most - 4,000. Writing4all is an Irish writing website that runs an Annual Writing Spirit S...

The season continues... and my story “The Every Day Woman * ” by will be read on RTE Radio 1 tomorrow, Tuesday 14th at 11.10pm in The Book ...

I won't mention the snow, except perhaps to say that my toes are ice cubes waiting on a dash of vodka and my car has crystallized. No, ...