Frances MacManus Short Story Award

This annual competition is gradually getting later and later in the year until this year when it's so late, it's next year. But never mind. We can live with that. 

It's a competition to write a short story for the ear, for the radio. That's not the same as a story on the page. Read your story out loud. Remember your audience can't go back to check a detail. Think lyric, rhythmic.


Conditions:
The competition is open to anyone born or resident in Ireland.
Only one entry per person is allowed.
Entries must be original work of the author and not previously published or broadcast.
Stories must be between 1,800 - 2,000 words.
Entries should be double spaced and type written on one side of A4 paper.
The Authors name should only appear on the official entry form.
Deadline: 20th January 2012.
There is no Entry Fee for Submission. Free
Entries should be posted or delivered to:
                                                                RTE Radio 1 Short Story Competition
                                                                RTE Radio Centre
                                                                Dublin 4
Application and details here

Science and Poetry: Not So Different?

Lecture by my good buddy and all round witty, insightful man, Professor Iggy McGovern, Scientist and Poet

16:30, Thursday 24 November 2011

Seminar Room, Long Room Hub (beside Arts Building), Trinity College Dublin

Friends of the Library €2.50, non-members €5

It is over 50 years since C.P. Snow’s Rede Lecture ‘The Two Cultures’; Snow’s theme was that Western intellectual life had fractured into polar opposite groups of Science and Literature. This lecture examines how that theme plays out today in poetry, noting the recent publication of a number of science poetry anthologies. It looks back to when no distinction existed, traces the beginnings of the fault lines in the 19th century and reviews the developing links of our time. The writing of some scientist- poet hybrids is discussed, including the Irish scientist and poet William Rowan Hamilton and the Czech immunologist and poet Miroslav Holub.

Write in the City - Creative writing classes

When:

Sat, Nov 26, 2011 - Sun, Nov 27, 2011

Where:

Café Joly, National Library of Ireland

Creative writing classes with Yvonne Cullen at Café Joly, National Library of Ireland 

€250. 

 

The creative writing course inspired by the culture and fabric of Dublin city and by your Dublin stories. 

 

Comprises five Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. 

 

Tuition, discussion and readings of Dublin-inspired writing, visits to inspiring Dublin cultural locations, and convivial lunch at Café Joly at the National Library of Ireland accompanied with further creative writing guidance. You will also be given additional challenges to take away each week during this inspiring, fun and surprisingly intensive course. 

Also on offer for groups (by arrangement) are ‘Write in the City’ one-day events. Sessions will be capped at twelve participants. 

To book, contact Yvonne Cullen at writingtrain@gmail.com or 086 1701418.

2012 Hippocrates Awards for Poetry and Medicine

Entries are now open for the 2012 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, which is for unpublished poems in English.

Deadline for entries is 31st January 2012.

With a 1st prize for the winning poem in each category of £5,000, the Hippocrates prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. In each category there is also a 2^nd prize of £1,000, 3^rd  prize of £500, and 20 commendations each of £50. 

Medicine may be interpreted in the broadest sense. Themes for prize entries may include the nature of the body and anatomy; the history, evolution, current and future state of medical science; the nature and experience of tests; the experience of doctors, nurses and other staff in hospitals and in the community. 

Other topics might include experience of patients, families, friends and carers; experiences of acute and long-term illness, dying, birth, cure and convalescence; the patient journey; the nature and experience of treatment with herbs, chemicals and devices used in medicine.

Awards are in an Open category, which anyone in the world may enter, and an NHS category, which is open to UK National Health Service employees, health students and those working in professional organisations involved in education and training of NHS students and staff.

Awards will be presented in London on Saturday May 12th 2012, at the 3rd International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine, to be held at the Wellcome Collection rooms in London.

Poems entered are to be of no more than 50 lines and submitted online, accompanied by an entry fee (£6 per poem). 

Poetry Ireland Introductions

I did this a few years ago and it was very enjoyable and educational and you get to meet a lot of people and talk about poetry a lot which is a treat. You do have to have a publishing history behind you first.

The Poetry Ireland Introductions Series offers a paid public reading to poets working towards a first collection or with a début collection already published, and who have a track record of publication in journals and 'little' magazines.  

To apply for an Introductions reading and a preparatory masterclass in Spring 2012, send a maximum of 10 pages of poems and a short biographical note emphasising publication credits to:

Introductions, Poetry Ireland, 2 Proud's Lane, off St Stephen's Green, D2.

Deadline: Friday 6 January 2012. 

Irish Times Flash Fiction

The Irish Times is looking for flash fiction, anything up to 500 words.

There's a feature on it here and details

Think you can write a very short story? Send your Flash Fiction of no more than 500 words to flashfiction@irishtimes.com and we’ll publish the best.

Here's a link to those published last week. 

Know the Ropes

Submissions for this magazine are now being sought.

The 2012 MA Literature and Publishing class is delighted to announce the call for submissions for the 20th issue of ROPES.

The theme this year is ‘Links’.

Links may be interpreted as reflections on the past and transformations to the present, on changes in people even if they intrinsically remain the same, or the effect development has had on our now digital culture.

We invite submission of poetry, prose and drama, with a maximum of 2500 words

no more than three submissions per author.

All submissions must be unpublished.

The launch date is set for 26th of April, 2012 at Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Deadline: 5pm, 9 December 2011

Please send all submissions to ropes.submissions@gmail.com

For further information see http://ropesgalway2012.wordpress.com/