Listowel Writers’ Week Competitions

Listowel Writers’ Week goes from strength to strength

Rules
 
The Closing Date for receipt of novels for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award is: 1^st February, 2014.

The Closing Date for receipt of all other competition entries is: 1^st March 2014.

• Entries cannot have been previously published.
• Please submit your name and contact details on a separate sheet. The entrant’s identity must not appear on the competition entry (with the exception of The Creative Writing for Youth Competitions).
• Entries may be in Irish or in English / Is féidir iontrálacha a bheith i mBéarla nó i nGaeilge.
• Please identify the specific competition for which you are entering on the front of the envelope, for example ‘The Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award’.
• Awards may not be presented where an appropriate standard is not achieved.
• Listowel Writers’ Week reserves the right to withhold or to publish winning entries in the publication Winners’ Anthology 2014.The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2014 (More Details..)

The Bryan MacMahon Short Story Competition (More Details..)
Duais Foras na Gaeilge (More Details..)
The Éamon Keane Full Length Play (More Details..)

The Single Poem (More Details..)

The Poetry Collection (More Details..)
The Nilsson Local Heritage Competition (More Details..)
Listowel Writers’ Week Originals Competitions (More Details..)
Con Houlihan Young Sports Journalist Competition (More Details..)
Kerry County Council Creative Writing Competitions for Youth (More Details..)
Creative Writing for Special Education Category (More Details…)

The Irish Post New Writing Competition (More Details..)
Writing in Prisons Competition (More Details..)

This is a Story Flash Competition

This is a Story invites entries of all original unpublished work of up to 500 words and the cost is €5 per entry (3 entries for €10). There is no theme or subject limitations and entries will  be judged anonymously by author Mike Mc Cormack. You can enter by post, by e-mail or by Facebook and the deadline is January 14th 2014. Prize: €300.

Send entries to GRCC, "The Lodge" Forster Court, Galway with cheques/postal orders made out to Galway Rape Crisis Centre.

Overseas entries:

a)    enter via website using a credit card

b)    enter by sending a paypal payment to coordinator@galwayrcc.org

c)    enter by post 

Competition winners are informed around late Febuary but the official announcement is made at the time of the prizegiving – this year it will mid March 2014.  Check the website after this date or send an SAE for the list of winners and judges’ reports.

More info: Aoife Ní Laoi - fundraiser@galwayrcc.org

Festive Reading at Accents Cafe on Sunday 22nd December

Hope to see loads of you in festive mood on Sunday 22nd December in Accents Cafe, Stephen's St Lower in Dublin. 7pm. http://www.uniquetodublin.ie/socialise/accents-coffee-tea-lounge/

 

I'll be wearing my Christmas jumper and waxing lyrical. With the energetic and inimitable David Hynes

Show starts promptly at 7pm as we have an amazing array of talent on display.
Come see our lyrical diva Kate Dempsey
Our bantering bard Philip Lynch
Leinster king John Moynes who will not only be charming you with his poetry but also his comedy.
And coming from any bar or room which will have him the musical wit genius that is Mark Cox.
We have Eoin O Murchu with funny words
And fresh from her world tour of England where the crowds of littlehampton north gloustershire and worchesterpark were left screaming for more we have the comic genius Aideen McQueen.
As usual there's me David Hynes and also a late addition if there's time of Eddie izzard .
 
For Christmas cheer without the beer.
Accents cafe bar
Sun 22nd Dec 7 o clock
And it's free

Lumen/Camden Poetry Competition 2013-14

Here's one to win a chapbook publication and all proceeds to two London Homeless Cold Weather Shelters

Closing date 14 February 2014.        

• Judge: Andrew Motion.
• Poems up to 40 lines.
• Single poems £2.50, 6 poems £10.
• Poetry must not be previously published.
• 50 free copies plus a reading.

How to submit

Enter by Post and by Cheque:

• Make your cheque out to 'Caris Camden', and send it with the poem to Ruth O’Callaghan at: 49 Ripley Gardens, Mortlake London, SW14 8HF.
• Include a separate sheet with your name, contact details, and the titles of your poems.
• DO NOT put your personal details on the poems themselves.

Enter Online with PayPal:

• Pay by clicking buttons below
• Then either post your poems to Ruth (see address above) and include the PayPal transaction code and your PayPal account email address on a separate page along with the titles of your poems
• or send the poems in the body of an email with your contact details and the Pay Pal transaction code at the top of the email to Adele at: adele@wardwoodpublishing.co.uk.

Link here

Arts Council: Travel and Training Award 2014

The window for 2014 Travel and Training Award applications opened on 27 November 2013. There are no formal deadlines for the Travel and Training Award. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. Applicants seeking support for formal courses (postgraduate or equivalent) and for other eligible opportunities must submit their application at least six weeks before their course or work programme begins. You are advised that the Arts Council cannot guarantee to assess applications received less than six weeks before a course or work programme begins.

Funding will be available in the following art forms: Architecture, Arts Participation, Circus, Dance, Literature, Music, Opera, Street Arts and Spectacle, Venues, Visual Arts, and Young People, Children and Education.

As I understand it, there isn't a deadline but when theannual money runs out, it's gone.

Do if anyone outside of Ireland is interested in a reading from me alone or with the Poetry Divas, let me know.

Please visit the Arts Council website here for further information: here.

Prole Laureate Poetry Competition

The Prole Laureate Competition
Prize
Winner: £140, Publication in Prole 13 in April 2014
Publication on the Prole website
2 x runner up prizes of £30, possible publication in Prole 13
Publication on the Prole website

Judge
Kate Noakes
Kate Noakes is an elected member of the Welsh Academi. She has taught creative writing for Oxford University. Her most recent collection is Cape Town from Eyewear Publishing (2012). I-spy and Shanty is forthcoming in 2014 from corrupt press. Her poem ‘Snow light’ was selected by Carol Ann Duffy for her Poetry Corner in The Daily Mirror in January 2010. She won the Owen Barfield Poetry Prize in 2009.
Entries will be anonymised before being sent to judge.

Deadline: Feb 1st 2014
Winners will be announced in issue 13 of Prole in April and on our website by April 20th.

Details
We are, as ever, completely open: free verse, blank verse, highly formed verse. We want poems that epitomise the editorial values of Prole: to make writing engaging, accessible, entertaining and challenging. Quality is all.
All work must be the original work of the writer and be unpublished.

Fees
£3.00 for first entry, £2.00 for any subsequent entries.

How to enter

Via our website and email – preferred.
http://www.prolebooks.co.uk/page6.html
Make the correct payment using PayPal.
Email your entry, including the text and PayPal transaction number within the body of the email, to: poetrycompetition@prolebooks.co.uk
By post
Make a cheque (GBP only, please) payable to
P Robertson for the correct amount and mail along with entry to:
Brett Evans
Prolebooks
15 Maes-y-Dre
Abergele
LL22 7HW

Francis Macmanus Short Story Award

Gradually later and later until it missed 2013 all together. The next deadline is Friday 31st January 2014. This is a short story for the radio so the ear is everything.

Submissions for the 2014 RTÉ Francis Mac Manus Radio Short Story Competition are now being accepted. 

 

The competition is free to enter. 

 

Applications forms and guidelines can be found Here  

 

Apply by post to-

 
The Francis Mac Manus Short Story Competition,
RTÉ Radio 1,
Donnybrook,
Dublin 4.

 

The three judges for 2014 are Christine Dwyer Hickey, novelist and short story writer, Julie Parsons, and author and former radio producer, Eoin Purcell, Editorial Director, New Island Books.