Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition

Really not sure about this title...

Southword are reviving their Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. Two winners will each have their manuscript published, receive €500 in cash and fifty complimentary copies of their chapbook.

 

   The competition is open to new, emerging and established poets from any country BUT at least one of the winners will be a debutante (with no chapbook or book published previously). 25-50 other entrants will be publicly listed as "highly commended". Manuscripts must be sixteen to twenty pages in length, in the English language and the sole work of the entrant with no pastiches, translations or 'versions'. The poems can be in verse or prose. Each chapbook is guaranteed a review in Southword Online.
 

   The winning chapbooks will be published in August 2014 with striking cover designs, ISBNs, barcodes and will be offered for sale internationally through our own website, Amazon and selected independent book sellers. The winning poets will be considered for the 2015 Cork Spring Poetry Festival programme and have their chapbooks entered for the UK Forward Prize for best poem and anthology. 

An entrance fee of €25 will be charged for each manuscript. 

Entrants may enter more than one manuscript of 16-20 pages. For full details consult www.munsterlit.ie in December. 

Judges: The winners will be selected by a panel chosen by the management board of Southword Editions. 

How many chapbooks will they publish?

Deadline: March 31st 2014. 

New Planet Cabaret

Delighted to have a satirical piece in this anthology that aims to take a snapshot or cross section of the live arts in Ireland at the moment - a weighty, worthy aim and a delicious smorsgabord of pieces to dip in and out of.

Edited by Dave Lordan and published by New Island Books. This is a spin off of the RTE Arena arts radio show which had an innovative radio writing workshop last year.

Don't you just love the cover? It's an inspiration in its own right.

Buy it in your local bookshop or direct from the publisher here, That way, more money goes back to support the arts. Proceeds go to the Writers in Schools scheme administered by Poetry Ireland.

Poets Meet Politics - Hungry Hill

POETS MEET POLITICS

Writing competition for poems on a broadly political theme.

Judge: Bernard O’Donoghue

Prize: €500

Deadline: 1 February 2014

Entry fee: €8 (25% discount for writers’ groups who submit three or more writers’ entries together.)

This is run from the beautiful Beara peninsula in County Cork.

For details visit

www.hungryhillwriting.com

Winter Tales book festival in Dalkey

Dalkey tell us that most books are sold in December but there are no book festivals anywhere in Ireland at Christmas.

On Saturday 7th December, they'll be changing that.

They say

Come to Dalkey to meet your favourite authors, solve your Christmas present dilemmas, get your books signed, listen to great writers and speakers , while having a laugh.

There will be a bookshop and signings at all events. And what’s more, a wonderful bookshop is opening at 20 Railway Road from end of this month for all of December! Who knows, if we support it well, they just might stay!

Winter Tales Schedule

12pm	Paul Howard aka Ross O’Carroll Kelly reads from Downturn Abbey
1:30pm	Pat McCabe in conversation with Miriam O’Callaghan
3:30pm	New Party, New Politics? Discussion with Pat Leahy, Lucinda Creighton, Dearbhail McDonald, Stephen Donnelly
5pm	Eamon Dunphy on the Rocky Road with Sam Smyth
6pm	Frank McGuinness in conversation with Joanne Hayden
7pm	Stuck for a book? Favourite books recommended by Declan Hughes, David McWilliams and others
9pm	Colm O’Regan: Ireland’s Got Mammies

Link here

Cork Spring Literary Festival - Emerging Poets Reading

I read here last year. I was very good. In fact, I made at least one member of the audience cry, but in a good way. They didn't invite me back yet though, despite my strong Cork links.

Details here

15 February at 4pm at the Cork Arts Theatre.   A selection of emerging poets reading at the
Gregory O'Donoghue Prizegiving Ceremony.

The Prebooked Poetry Reading will involve up to five individuals who have yet to publish a full-length collection of poems. Each poet will have the opportunity to read three poems of 40 lines or under. If you would like a chance to partake in this event you must have at least two magazine publishing credits. 

Submit three poems with a biographical note. 

Deadline: January 7th 

Submit to: munsterlit(AT)eircom(DOT)net . Submissions must have the subject heading “Prebooked Poetry Reading 2014”.

The list of chosen poets will be posted on www.munsterlit.ie by January 20th and later
on www.corkpoetryfest.net

Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition

A massive competition this one, usually won by furreigners, if memory serves.

The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition is now open for entries
First prize: €1000, a week’s residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, publication in Southword Journal, and the chance to read your work at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival.

2nd Prize €500 & publication in Southword

3rd Prize €250 & publication in Southword

Ten runners-up to be published in Southword and receive €30 publication fee.

The entry fee is €5 per poem or €20 per batch of five.
Judge: Patrick Cotter.
Deadline: 15 December 2013

Full details here.

Cork Launches

Launch of Billy Ramsell's The Architect's Dream of Winter, Dedalus Press, Introduced by Paul Perry
Thursday November 21^st, 7pm at Crane Lane Theatre, Cork,(near, General Post Office)
Refreshments served, guest readings by Conor McManus, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Stephen Moore.

You can read my interview with Billy here 

Also

Adam Wyeth's Launch The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Salmon Publishing)  Saturday November 30th 3.30pm at the Triskel Arts Centre, Introduced by Patrick Cotter.