Writing Competitions...
2010 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition
Sponsored by Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop the 2010 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual creative writing competition. The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers. The total prize money is €1,000. The best fiction entry will win €300. The best poetry entry will win €300. One of these will then be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner total prize money of €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2010. The 2010 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year will be a Featured Reader at a reading to be scheduled in Galway City Library in Winter 2010/11. Salmon Poetry will read without prejudice a manuscript submitted to them by the winner in the poetry category.
Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the Year competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland with an accompanying SAE. Entries will be judged anonymously, so do not put your name on your poem(s) or story. Put your contact details on a separate sheet.
Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines. Multiple entries are acceptable but each must be accompanied by a fee. The fee for one entry is €10. The fee for multiple entries is €7.50 per entry e.g. two entries will cost €15, three entries €22.50 and so on. Fee payable by cheque or money order to Over The Edge. To take part you must be at least sixteen years old by September 1st 2010 and not have a book published or accepted for publication in that genre. Chapbooks excepted. Entries must not have been previously published or be currently entered in any other competition.
The closing date is Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010. A longlist will be announced in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010. A shortlist will be announced at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 26th. The winners will be announced at the Over The Edge reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 30th, 2010.
This year’s competition judge is James Martyn. James is from Galway where he is a member of The Talking Stick Writing Workshop. James writes both fiction and poetry. He has had work broadcast on both RTE and BBC and won the Listowel Writers Week Originals Short Story Competition. His work has appeared in The Cúirt Journal, West 47, Books Ireland, Crannóg, TheSunday Tribune, The Stinging Fly and The Shop. He was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 2006. He was shortlisted for the Francis McManus award in both 2007 and 2008 and for The William Trevor International Short Story Competition in 2007. His first collection of poetry, Shedding Skin, has just been published by Arlen House.
For further details contact Over The Edge on 087-6431748, e-mail over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com or see http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com
Cavan Crystal/Windows Publications
18th National Student & Adult Poetry Competition
Closing date: March 31st | Adjudicators: Heather Brett and Noel Monahan
Windows Publications, in association with Cavan Crystal, is pleased to announce the opening of their 18th National Poetry Competition. In addition to cash prizes in each category the winner will be presented with a beautiful and much coveted Cavan Crystal goblet sponsored by Cavan Crystal Design. This year, Windows editors Heather Brett and Noel Monahan are incorporating an adult category into the competition, which they do every three years. The first prize for each of the student categories is €100 or equivalent and in the adult category 1st prize is €500.
Rules for Student Competition:
Entry to this competition is free. Entrant details (name, age, school or contact number) must be clearly marked on the BACK of each entry if posting work or at the end of the work if sending by email. Poems should NOT have been published before or won a prize in any other competition, and must be the student's OWN work.
Competition entries will also be accepted on line as well as by post. Send entries to heatherbrett22@hotmail.com or by post to Cavan Crystal Hotel, Dublin Rd., Co Cavan clearly stating which category you are entering for.
Junior Category- Open to all students aged 10-13 throughout Ireland in primary or national school education or equivalent.
Senior Category- Open to all students aged 13-18 throughout Ireland in second level education or equivalent.
Irish language Category- Open to all students in Ireland between 10 and 18.
Best Overall Schools - All school entries are automatically entered.
Rules for Adult Competition:
The competition is open to all persons in Ireland or elsewhere, over the age of 19 on May 20th 2010 and can only be entered by posting entries to Cavan Crystal/Windows Poetry Competition, Adult Category, Cavan Crystal Hotel Dublin Rd.,Cavan. Details (name, address and contact number) must NOT appear on the poems entered, but must be on a separate sheet. Poems should NOT have been published before or won a prize in any other competition. The entry fee is €10 for each three poems entered. (Please make cheques or postal orders payable to Windows Publications.)
It is a condition of this competition that winning poets make themselves available to come and read their work at the Awards Ceremony in Cavan Crystal Hotel on Thursday May 20th 2010 at 8pm. A shortlist of winners will appear by the beginning of May.
For any enquiries please ring 0860650908.