Sunday 28 December 2008

People's College Writing Competition


The People's College is delighted to announce its third annual writing competition. The short story competition - for a story on any subject up to 2,500 words - is open to all. There is a second category restricted to current members of the People's College for a personal reminiscence of up to 1000 words.

Deadline: 28 February 2009
Prizes: First prize in the short story competition will be ?500, second prize ?300 and third prize of ?200.

fee €10 for the first story and €5 for any number thereafter.

Runners-up in both categories will receive book tokens.

Judge of the short story competition: novelist and short story writer Jack Harte.
of the personal reminiscence category: lecturer and writer Marie O'Meara.

Winners will be announced in late Spring and will be published in the in-house 2009 People's College Creative Writing Group Anthology and on the People's College website.

Competition Administrator: Susan Knight

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