Strokestown International poetry Competition 2019

The Deadline for the annual Strokestown Poetry Festival competition is fast approaching. Get your entries in soon and make it a good one!

1st Prize € 2,000
Plus a week-long residency at Anam Cara Writer’s and Artist’s Retreat

2nd Prize € 700

3rd Prize € 500
Reading fees of € 300 for 7 shortlisted poets

Deadline:7th December 2018

The 10 shortlisted poems will be published in the Strokestown Anthology 2019

Judges:

Jo Shapcott & Gerard Smyth

Brexit in Poetry Competition

We’re inviting you to send us a poem that deals with any aspects of the Brexit process. We're not interested in whether you are for or against leaving the EU but it’s about how you’ve put the poem together: your use of language, rhythm, sound, imagery, etc. We want to be touched, inspired or even frustrated by your poem. The actual word Brexit does not have to appear, but the poem needs to be inspired by Brexit, for example by throwing a new light on being in or out of the EU, or by expressing something that hasn’t been voiced before, but make sure to stay away from clichés. 
Prize: £200 and publication in the Holland Park Press online magazine
Length: 50 lines or less
Entry fee: none
Deadline: 31 December 2018
Eligibility: poems written in English by writers over 18 from any country
To submit: email your poem as a Word, Text or PDF attachment to submissions@hollandparkpress.co.uk
Organizer: Holland Park Press
Webpage: complete guidelines are available from https://www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/magazine_detail.php?magazine_id=459&language=English

Doolin Writers’ Competition 2018

Doolin Writers’ Competition 2018 with a prize fund of €2500. Entries are now being accepted for Short Stories, Poetry and Flash Fiction 

Deadline: December 1st 2017. 

This year Doireann Ní Ghríofa will judge the poetry competition, Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen from Tramp Press will judge the Short Story and the Flash Fiction Category.

Meanwhile Hotel Doolin has confirmed the weekend of the 2nd-4th February for the 6th Annual Doolin Writers’ Weekend, County Clare will again play host to some of the country’s leading writers.

‘It’s a great opportunity for aspiring writers as well as literary fans and established authors to get together and mix, as Anne Enright, Irelands Laureate of fiction says, “there is no VIP room in Irish Literature,” and this is true also for the Doolin Writers’ Weekend, one of the key aspects of the festival for us is that it has the feel of a community with people joining  us here every year and just picking up where things left off, audiences and artists feeling at one and enjoying the communal spirit of the weekend.’ Donal Minihane- Event Organiser- Hotel Doolin General Manager

‘Doolin has long been associated with the arts, providing inspiration for musicians, painters & writers. Many of the greats spent time in Doolin, including JM Synge, George Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Augustus John & Oliver St. Gogarty. Post-crash Ireland is on the cusp of a new literary boom and we look forward to welcoming a new wave of bold and original writers to Doolin.’

Terms and Conditions

Entrants must be aged over 18 years.
No poet/writer may win more than one prize.
8 Shortlisted names in each category will be announced on Doolin Writers’ Facebook page at no less than 1 week prior to Doolin Writers’ Weekend. Shortlisted authors will be contacted by email. 2 winners in each category will be announced on the opening night of Doolin Writers’ Weekend. Winners will read their poem and excerpt from their story on Saturday night of the Doolin Writers’ Weekend. Accommodation and meals will be provide for winners and runners up on the Friday & Saturday night.
Poems, Flash Fiction and Stories must be entered separately.
Currency conversion for the purpose of this competition (subject to change): 10.00 Euro = £8.00 Sterling = US$14.00

POSTAL ENTRIES
For Postal entries please post your submission to Doolin Writers’ Competition Entry with a cover letter to have your name, email address and contact number and with the €10 Fee in a cheque or Postal order form made payable to Hotel Doolin. Your name and contact details must appear only in the cover letter and not the story or poem.

ONLINE ENTRIES
Click on the Submitable button on our website and follow the steps to upload your entry, your name and contact details must not appear on the entry uploaded only on the fields provided online.

Flash Fiction 1st Prize €500
Must be in English, must each be no more than 500 words (that does not include the title).
Must show title & story only, must not show writer’s name or any other identifying marks on submitted stories – Please note stories submitted with the writers’ name or contact details will not be submitted to the judges!
Must be double spaced.
Must be the original work of the entrant.
Must not have been previously broadcast or published (in print or online).

Poems First Prize €1000

Must be in English, must each be no longer than 40 lines (that does not include the title).
Must show title & poem only, must not show poet’s name or any other identifying marks on submitted poems – Please note poems submitted with the writers’ name or contact details will not be submitted to the judges!
Must be the original work of the entrant.
Must not have been previously broadcast or published (in print or online).
Three is the limit on number of poems you can submit; no alterations accepted after submission.

Short Story First Prize €1000

Must be in English, must each be between 1000-3000 words (that does not include the title).
Must show title & story only, must not show writer’s name or any other identifying marks on submitted stories – Please note stories submitted with the writers’ name or contact details will not be submitted to the judges!
Must be double spaced.
Must be the original work of the entrant.
Must not have been previously broadcast or published (in print or online).

The Moth Poetry Prize 2017

The Moth Poetry Prize (formerly the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize) is now in its seventh year, it continues to offer one of the most lucrative awards in the world for a single unpublished poem.

ABOUT THE PRIZE Since its inception in 2011, the prize has been judged by such celebrated poets as Deborah Landau, Matthew Sweeney and Billy Collins. Winners of the prize have included Lee Sharkey, Abigail Parry and Ann Gray, whose poem was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2015.

The Moth Poetry Prize is open to anyone (over 16), as long as the poem is previously unpublished, and each year it attracts thousands of entries from new and established poets from over 50 countries worldwide.

This year’s judge is Daljit Nagra. Nagra was the first poet to win the Forward Prize for both his first collection of poetry and its title poem. He recently published his third collection of poetry with Faber, British Museum, and teaches poetry at Brunel University London and is Poet in Residence for BBC Radio 4.

Terms and Conditions
Deadline: 31 December 2017.

• The name of the author must not appear on the same page as the poem. 
• It’s not a requirement, but we strongly advise you to purchase a copy of The Moth. 
• You can write on any subject and there is no line limit. 
• Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been published, self-published, published online or broadcast. 
• Fees Entry fee is €12 per poem Online payment should be made to enquiries@themothmagazine.com via PayPal. Cheques should be made payable to ‘The Moth Magazine Ltd.’, with the sender’s name and address on the back.

Prizes 
1st €10,000 3 runner-up prizes of €1,000 Prizewinners
The shortlisted writers will be notified by the end of February 2018.
 The shortlisted poems will be published in the spring 2018 issue of The Moth.
 The winner will be announced at a special award ceremony at Poetry Ireland in Dublin in the spring of 2018.

Link 

Strokestown Poetry Competition

Strokestown Poetry Competition 2018 

Deadline: 1st December 17

Strokestown is Ireland’s longest-running poetry festival, and has established a reputation for friendly informality twinned with deep respect for poetry, poets and poetry lovers. Here’s your chance to take part in it. 

1st Prize € 2,000, plus a week-long residency at Anam Cara Writer’s and Artist’s Retreat. 
2nd Prize € 700. 
3rd Prize € 500. 
Reading fees of € 300 for 5 shortlisted poets. 
The 8 shortlisted poems will be printed in the Strokestown Anthology 2018. 

Judges: Moya Cannon and Harry Clifton. 
Prize winner announced in Strokestown 6th May 2018.

Entry Fee: £6.00 (euros) per poem


Contact: For further details visit https://www.strokestownpoetry.org/

North West Words Poetry Competition

North West Words is a non-profit orgranisation based in Donegal.  This competition is now in its fifth year and is open to original and previously unpublished poems in English.


This prize is open to anyone over the age of 18 as long as the poem is the original work of the author submitting it. Entries must not have been previously published in any media, self-published, broadcast, and/or won any competition.

The maximum number of poems per entrant is 3.



Send your poem(s) along with a cover letter with name, address, and phone number and/or email address, and title(s) of each poem submitted. Please do not put your name or personal contact details on the same page as the poem(s).

Postal entries to North West Words Poetry Prize 2016, Upper Corkey, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.  Online entries should be attached in one document and copied into the body of the email and sent to editornww@yahoo.com

Deadline: Saturday, 31st December 2016.


North West Words is a non-profit organisation run on voluntary effort.


The competition fee of €5 per entry (up to three poems) goes towards the administrative costs of the competition. Payment may be made by Cheque, Postal Order, Money Order or via Paypal on our website http://northwestwords.com/north-west-words-launch-two-poetry-competitions-in-association-with-donegal-creameries-and-ealain-na-gaeltachta-teo/.


The 2016 English Poetry competition will be judged by Kate Newman from Summer Palace Press.


A shortlist will be published on North West Words’ Facebook page and at North West Words’ January event in Florence Food Company. The winner will be announced and the prize awarded at North West Words Event in Florence Food Company, Letterkenny, on Thursday, 23rd February 2017. (The winning poet will be notified on Thursday, 16th February 2017) The author will be invited to read their winning poem at this North West Words event.

 Copyright remains with the poet, but North West Words reserves the right to first publication or broadcast of the winning poem.

The Charles Causley International Poetry Competition 2016

The Charles Causley International Poetry Competition is to be judged this year by their patron, Sir Andrew Motion.  When asked what he will be looking for in the winning entries he said:

‘I’m looking for poems that surprise me – not by their ostentation, but by making me see, think, remember, recover things I’ve forgotten I already know.’

This years winners will be announced next year, in what would have been Charles’ 100th year, and will be included in the celebrations and publications which will mark this important moment.

The 1st prize winner will receive £2000 and the opportunity to stay at Causley’s former home in Launceston, Cyprus Well, during his centenary year for a week-long stay.

The 2nd prize winner will receive £250 and the 3rd prize winner £100.

Five highly commended poets whose work shows particular promise will be offered a mentoring development opportunity with one of our writer’s in residence during 2017.

Entries will be shortlisted by an expert panel and the final decision will be made by Sir Andrew Motion.

Fee: The first poem submitted costs £7. Subsequent entries in the same submission cost £5 per poem. 

 40 lines of text maximum, no minimum. The title is not included in the line count. Lines between text/stanzas are not counted in the line count. Titles, epigraphs and dedications are also not counted as lines. 

Postal Entries only. Link here

Deadline: 1st December

Women’s Way Short Story Competition

Woman’s Way is launching a short story competition for the second year. We want all our readers who enjoy writing to enter our competition.

Our theme this year is REINVENTION. This year, we’re narrowing the genres to five and will be picking one winner from each genre. These are:

• Romance
• Horror
• Childrens/Young Adult
• Humour/Comedy
• Crime/Thriller

Our winners’ stories will appear in our Christmas annual, issue 51 (on sale December 27) plus some extra special gifts.

Note: They are not saying what the prize is...but there is no fee

• Stories must be previously unpublished though you can submit more than one story per category. We will not accept poetry, scripts or an opinion piece
• Word count: One page stories of a maximum of 800 words
• Entries should be typed on double line spacing on side of paper only, Times New Roman, 12 point, with wide margins. All stories must be in English and each page numbered
• Please add a cover page to each story which includes: your name, postal address, email address, contact number, name of story, word count and category you’re entering. Also include a 50-word biography
• Stories may edited to Woman’s Way’s house style

More info on writing.ie
Send your completed stories and cover page to atoner@harmonia.ie 

Deadline: 1st December

The Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize

The Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize

Prizes: 1st prize €10,000, plus 3 prizes of €1,000 for each of the shortlisted poems

For an unpublished poem of any length. 

The four winning poems will appear in the spring issue of The Moth.

Judged by Deborah Landau, director of the creative writing program at New York University. ‘Landau’s killer wit evokes Dorothy Parker crossed with Sylvia Plath – leaping spark after spark, growing to deadly dark fire,’ says the Los Angeles Times of her work.

Entry fee €12

Deadline: 31 DECEMBER 2016

See: www.themothmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?ID=8010&page=13

2017 Strokestown International Poetry Festival Competitions

The 2017 Strokestown International Poetry Festival Competitions are open for entries.


The closing date for the competitions has been brought forward, to facilitate the publication of a festival anthology in which poems from shortlisted entrants for the two main competitions, English and Irish, will feature alongside the work of the well known judges and other poets who will read at the 2017 festival.


Maura Dooley and Paddy Bushe will judge the Strokestown International Poetry Prize for a poem in English, which carries a prize of €2000.


Duais de hÍde, which carries a prize of €500 for a poem in Irish, will be judged by Cathal Ó Searcaigh.


Shortlisted poets for each of these competitions will also be asked to read a selection of their poems as part of the festival, and will receive a reading fee of €200.


The Percy French Prize for humorous poetry will be judged by Margaret Hickey, and the Roscommon Poets’ Prize by Jessamine O’Connor.


For details, rules and entry forms see www.strokestownpoetry.org

Deadline:  2^nd December, 2016

The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition

Chicken House no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts, but they do offer unpublished and unagented writers of children's fiction the chance to submit their work to the annual Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition. They say 

We're looking for original ideas, a fresh voice and a story that children will love!

First prize is a worldwide publishing contract with Chicken House with a royalty advance of £10,000, plus representation from a top children’s literary agent.

To enter, you must have written a completed full-length novel suitable for children/young adults aged somewhere between 7 and 18 years. By full-length we suggest a minimum of 30,000 words and ask that manuscripts entered do not exceed 80,000 words in length.

Deadline: Sunday 18 December 2016

Fee: £15

Link and tips here

ROPES 2016 submissions

Ropes, the Galway based annual anthology edited and published by the students in the MA Literature and Publishing at NUI Galway, is looking for submissions for their 2016 issue. 

This years theme is independence in all its guises and they seek your most innovative, daring, experimental and gutsy writing.

Contributions are welcome in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and artwork. This includes flash fiction, genre fiction, graphic stories, memoirs, essays, visual art, photography, page decorations and illustrations.

All proceeds of ROPES 2016 will benefit the Galway Simon Community, a charity
that provides housing, support and health care services for people who have
become homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless in the West of Ireland.

Please submit to ROPES2016.submissions@gmail.com

Deadline: December 18th

Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize 2015

The 2015 Moth Poetry Prize has a massive prize fund and receives entries from all over the world.

1st Prize €10,000, plus three runner-up prizes of €1,000. 

The prize is run in association with The Moth magazine. It is for a single unpublished poem. 

This year's judge is former US poet laureate Billy Collins. 

The four shortlisted poems will appear in the spring issue of The Moth, and the winner will be announced at a special awards ceremony in Dublin in April 2016. 

Entry fee: €12

Deadline: 31 December 2015

Details at www.themothmagazine.com

Submissions sought for Ropes

The literary journal Ropes from the students of the Masters in Literature and Publishing at NUI Galway is looking for submissions of Poetry, Prose, Artwork and Photography.

Deadline: 30 December 2014

They're on Twitter @Ropes2015  and Facebook  

Please email submissions to Ropes.submissions@gmail.com 

All proceeds are going to ACT for Meningitis who do incredible work. 

Skylight magazine submissions

Late notice I know but...


Submission deadline for the Spring issue of Skylight 47 is 1 December 2014.

Please send up to four poems, along with a short biographical note (no more than 60 words), to skylightpoets47@gmail.com. Poems to be no longer than 40 lines and should be previously unpublished.

Please send your poems as an attachment (.doc, .docx, .txt or .rtf) and in the body of the email.
The editors would be interested to receive ideas for reviews, particularly of recent debut poetry collections, and original artwork.

Contributors will receive one copy of the magazine.

Penny Dreadful Seeks Submissions

The Cork based publication 5th edition is looking for

Ball-grabbing, punch-in-the-face writing from nice, courteous ladies and gents.

Deadline: 6th December

Stories = Up to 2 of up to 3000 words each.

Poetry = 6 of whatever length you like as long as you don’t take the piss. (Note: Please include all submitted poems in the same file, or they may not be considered for publication)

Bio = Please include a short bio (100 words max) and any internet website linking things which are suitable for good, Christian eye-balls.

Link here

You could always buy a copy to see what rings their bells (and give it to someone else for Christmas-why-not?)

Submissions sought for Mslexia Magazine - Earth Songs

Mslexia, the fabulous magazine of writing by women is looking for submissions for the theme Earth Songs.

Issue 65 (Mar/Apr/May 2015):

Our planet is under threat. This is an opportunity to create its many intricate marvels - in fiction or poetry - or to mourn against their loss. 

Deadline: 9 December 2014
Mslexia welcomes previously unpublished submissions from women for every part of the magazine.New Writing is a substantial section of new poetry and/or prose in the magazine, written by published and unpublished authors, selected and introduced by our New Writing Guest Editor.

Submission details here

Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize

THE 2014 COMPETITION IS NOW OPEN 

 

There are four cash prizes for a single unpublished poem – €10,000 for the overall winner and three runner-up prizes of €1,000.

 

The Prize is open to everyone, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. The entry fee is €12 per poem, and you can enter as many poems as you like. 

ENTER ONLINE HERE 

or simply send your poem(s) along with a cheque or postal order made payable to 'The Moth Magazine Ltd.' and an entry form (downloadable here)
or a cover letter with your name and contact details and the title of poem(s) attached to: The Moth, Drummullen, Cavan, Co. Cavan, Ireland 

This year’s competition will be judged by the poet Michael Symmons Roberts, ‘an outstanding writer’ whose poetry has won the Forward Prize,
the Costa Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Please make sure you READ THE RULES before entering the competition. 

CLOSING DATE 31 DECEMBER 2014 

Estudios Irlandeses

Estudios Irlandeses is the scholarly journal of AEDEI, the Spanish Association for Irish Studies. It covers a wide range of original work – research essays, interviews, think pieces and reviews – by well-established academics as well as by junior scholars based in different parts of the world (Brazil, Britain, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States). 

It comes out once a  year.

See link here

Estudios Irlandeses invites authors to submit contributions —in either English
or Spanish— that engage in a critical and original way with aspects of Irish literature, history, arts and the media, for its Issue Nº 10, to be published in March 2015.

Submissions should be sent via email tocontributions@estudiosirlandeses.org not later than December 1st 2014.

Wordlegs

Hi All, I'm going to take a break from online stuff for January to kick start some writing. I'll repost some interviews for January starting with a brand new one on 1st January!

And watch out for details of a Poetry Divas gig after Christmas.

Meanwhile I bring you details of an online mag Wordlegs that I will be editing for poetry.

Note the following:

• Writers should be from or living in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.

•  There is a strict submission limit of 500 words in flash fiction or 2500 words in short stories or other category.

• Up to 2 short stories or pieces in other category, or 3 poems per writer per issue

More details here

Deadline 31st December