The
Prize is open to everyone, as long as the work is original and
previously unpublished. There is a 6,000 word limit. The entry fee is
€9 per story and you can enter as many stories as you like.
You
can enter online or simply send your story or stories 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
story attached to: The Moth, 81 Church Street, Cavan, Co. Cavan,
Ireland.
This
year’s competition will be judged by Mike McCormack, a recipient of the
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature whose debut short story collection was
a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His novel Notes from a Coma
was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award and was described
in the Irish Times as ‘the greatest Irish novel of the decade just
ended’.
CLOSING DATE 30 JUNE 2014
The three winning stories will feature in the autumn 2014 issue of The Moth and the winners will be invited to read at a special event at the Winding Stair Bookshop in Dublin in September 2014.
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