Over The Edge, Galway

Over The Edge are looking again for the New Writer of the Year.

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 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.

More information here. Entries will be judged anonymously.

Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines.  
Fee: €10. Multiple entries is €7.50 per entry e.g. two entries will cost €15, three entries €22.50 and so on.

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.

Deadline: 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.