Over The Edge New Writer of the Year

Over The Edge has been advertising this for a while but the deadline's getting near. If you want to read at Over The Edge and get some dosh

Deadline: 3 August 2009

The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers.
Prizes: 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 author total prize money of €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2009. The 2009 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 09/10.

Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the Year competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland with an accompanying SAE. Do not put your name on your poem(s) or story. Put your contact details on a separate sheet.

* Although anonymous is a good intention, it's hard I think, not to recognise individual styles in such a small literary community. Local writers will, I suspect, feature highly.

Criteria: Fiction up 3,000 words, 3 poems of up to 40 lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines.

Fee: one entry €10. 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 2009 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.

A longlist will be announced in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009. A shortlist will be announced at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 27th 2009. The winners will be announced at the Over The Edge reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, September 24th, 2009.

Judge: Patrick Chapman.
He is a poet, fiction-writer and screenwriter. His poetry collections are Jazztown, (Raven Arts Press, 1991), The New Pornography (Salmon, 1996), Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights (Salmon, 2007) and A Shopping Mall on Mars (BlazeVOX, 2008). His fifth collection will appear from Salmon in 2010. He has also written a collection of stories, The Wow Signal (Bluechrome, 2007); Burning the Bed (2003), a multi-award-winning film starring Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen; and an audio play, Doctor Who: Fear of the Daleks (Big Finish, 2007). He lives in Dublin.

For further details contact Over The Edge on 087-6431748 or see http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com