Revival - call for submissions

Revival Poetry Journal is calling for submissions from local, national and international poets for the next issue which will be published in Limerick, January 2011.

Deadline: 30th November 2010

Send to: The Editor, Revival, Moravia, Glenmore Ave., Roxboro Rd., Limerick.

Email: revival1@eircom.net

Submission guidelines: www.revivalpress.com

Willesden Herald Short Story

Another round for the lovely people in Willesden. A prestigious, quirky competition.
Website here. Register online

Fee: £3 One entry per person only.

Deadline: 7 December 2010

Judge: Maggie Gee has agreed to choose the winning entry. Although they are filtered to an anonymous longlist...

Word limit this year: 7,500. A lot longer than many.

The prizes for 2011 are:

1st place: £300 plus a one-off Willesden Herald mug inscribed "The Willesden Short Story Prize 2011"

2nd: 2 x £150 (two runners-up)

All ten shortlisted stories will be included in "New Short Stories 5" to be published by Pretend Genius Press.

Author compensation for inclusion in New Short Stories is limited to 2 complimentary copies of the anthology.

The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story - Launch Reading

I would like this book for Christmas please

Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Here, Anne Enright, the Man Booker Prize-winning author, has brought together a rich new collection of Irish short stories by authors born in the 20th Century – from Mary Lavin and Frank O’Connor

With a pithy and passionate introduction by Enright, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change, and shows the pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short story form. Deft and often devastating, the short story dodges the rolling mythologies of Irish life to produce truths that are delightful and real.

Eugene McCabe, Colm Toibin and Hugo Hamilton, introduced by Anne Enright

Synge Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin

Tuesday 23rd November 2010 at 7.30 pm

Admission free.

Booking: 01 674 4873 Email: dublinpubliclibraries@dublincity.ie

For further information, please contact Cormac Kinsella on 01 634 9924 or ckinsella@repforce.ie

Arguments on Funding for the Arts

Read this from Michael O' Loughlin in the Poetry Ireland news.

"The arts are not educational. The arts are not good for your health. They are not an economic activity...Art is the enemy of culture, in the sense that culture is always something dead, something safe, something which has been assimilated. Art on the other hand, should retain the element of danger..."

then go to this

On Wednesday 1st December the Irish Writers' Centre presents an open panel discussion on how the current economic climate is affecting modern writing in Ireland. Panellists from many areas across the Arts Sector will join together under one roof to discuss the impending budget and its possible effect on modern and aspiring writers as well as the dwindling number of arts organisations across the country.
The discussion will be chaired by poet Michael O' Loughlin, co-founder of Raven Arts Press. O’ Loughlin will be joined by The Sunday Business Post’s Books and Arts Editor Nadine O’Regan, Sean Love, co-founder of Fighting Words and former Amnesty Ireland director, Gavin Kostick award-winning playwright, literary officer for Fishamble and Gerry Smyth, Managing Editor of the Irish Times and celebrated poet.

The discussion will begin at 7pm and is open to the general public.

Dublin City Arts Grants

Arts Grants 2011 ARTS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES 2011 ARTS ACT 2003 In accordance with its Arts Service Plan, Dublin City Council invites applications for funding towards arts projects and programmes in the city which are complementary to the following objectives: Achieving quality provision of the arts and cultural services Supporting the established and emerging artist Ensuring equality of public access to and participation in the arts, particularly through the city neighbourhoods Encouraging awareness, education and research in the arts Supporting the sustainable and strategic development of arts initiatives Application forms, guidelines and criteria may be obtained from: City Arts Office, Dublin City Council, The LAB, Foley St., Dublin 1. Tel: 222 5455 or E-mail: victoria.kearney@dublincity.ie Click here to download the guidelines for Art Funding 2011 Click here to download the application for Art Funding 2011 Deadline: 5pm on Friday 26th November 2010.

Are you free?

Here's one only for people who don't work full time. I mean seriously, is public art only for people who don't work regular hours?

 Thursday 25 November 2010, 4.30pm
 

Public Art Panel
 The Relevance of Public Art (Part II)

This is the second debate in a series that will explore the role of Public Art in modern society. Today’s talk will look at how Public Art now embraces many artforms and varied forms of expression. Has this brought art closer to the public or has it made art more confusing and oblique?

The panel will be chaired by Terre Duffy, Public Art Manager, Donegal County Council and panellists will be: writer, Dermot Bolger; choreographer, Fearghus Ó Conchúir; performance artist, Michelle Browne and arts writer and journalist Gemma Tipton.

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane in partnership with the Dublin City Public Art Programme, Dublin City Council Arts Office.

No booking necessary, however early arrival is recommended as places are limited.

Writing Spirit

I don't know much about this online outfit writing4all. Does anyone else?

They have a competition that pays well,

Deadline: 30 November 2010

Entry fee is €7 per story (no more than 4,000 words) and €7 per collection of poems (minimum of 4 poems, maximum of 10 poems).

Fiction
First Prize: €1000
Second Prize: €200
Third Prize: €100

Poetry
First Prize: €1000
Second Prize: €200
Third Prize: €100.
The prize-winning stories, along with 17 merited stories will be published in an anthology at the end of the competition. The prize-winning collections of poems, along with other merited poems will be published in a separate anthology when the competition has concluded.

It's a bit complicated with 4 rounds in the year. At the end of each round, the best stories and collections of poems, as chosen by a panel of judges in the case of the fiction and as chosen by John W. Sexton in the case of the poetry, will be shortlisted for the Award. Each of the previous 3 round's shortlists are on the website. Except the last poetry list which seems to be late.

At the end of the competition, the judges will choose the six highest-ranking stories and John W. Sexton will choose the six highest ranking collections of poems from the shortlists. The top three winning stories will be chosen from these six stories by the Grand Judge, renowned author Fred Johnston. The top three winning collections of poems will be chosen from these six collections of poems by John W. Sexton.

Submit by post or email.

For a full set of rules and guidelines click here: http://www.writing4all.ie/site/catalogues/entry/writing4all_writing/yes.htm