Greenheart Poetry Competition

Here's a competition that new (to me at least) with a good prize. UK funds entry only.

Leigh and Wigan Words Festival 2012 

(Who doesn't want to go to Wigan?)


Judge: Daljit Nagra
Prizes: 1st: £1000;   2nd: £400; 3rd: £200

Deadline: Jan 21st 2012

poems up to 80 lines (which I would say would mean that a short poem would be less likely to win)
and written to the theme of Greenheart see: www.visitgreeheart.com

Themes I think can be tricky. If you haven't been lucky enough to visit greenheart before, have a  good look at the website and jot down ideas for poems. Don't choose the first idea that comes into your head as penny to a pound it will have occured to many others too and Daljit will be bored of it by the time he reads yours.
  
Send entries in a S.A.E with £4 per entry, or £10 for three. 

Details here  

New Year Creative Writing Classes at Galway Technical Institute

Kevin and Susan have taught many gifted writers in and around Galway.
BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATE

Creative Writing for Beginners with Kevin Higgins takes place one evening per week (Monday) from 7-9.30pm. (8 weeks) It commences on Monday, January 16th, 2012. Advance booking is essential. Places cost €120. Kevin Higgins will provide writing exercises for, and give gentle critical feedback to, those interested in trying their hand at writing poems, stories or memoir.

Intermediate Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars takes place one evening per week (Tuesday) from 7-9.30pm (8 weeks) It commences on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012. Advance booking is essential. Places cost €120. This class is suitable for those who’ve participated in creative writing classes before or begun to have work published in magazines. Flexible exercises and work-shopping of assignments, together with the study of the works of published writers, will help each class member to find their own writing voice.

People can also enrol at Galway Technical Institute on Monday January 9th, 6.30-8.30pm, using credit/debit card. 

Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins.

Each workshop will run for ten weeks, commencing the week of January 16th. They will take place on Tuesday evenings, 7-8.30pm (first class January 17th); on Thursday afternoons, 2-4pm (first class January 19th) and on Friday afternoons, 2-3.30pm (first class January 20th).

The Tuesday evening and Friday afternoon workshops are open to both complete beginners as well as those who’ve been writing for some time. The Thursday afternoon workshop is an Advanced Poetry Workshop, suitable for those who’ve participated in poetry workshops before or had poems published in magazines.

Galway Arts Centre presents a daytime class for all those beginner and continuing creative writing students out there, both facilitated by Susan Millar DuMars

The class is suitable for both beginning and continuing creative writing students, working in either poetry or fiction. Students will spend their week responding to writing exercises designed to inspire, rather than inhibit. In class, they will receive gentle feedback on their work from their classmates and from the teacher. The class takes place on Monday afternoons, 2-3.30pm, commencing on Monday, January 23rd.

The cost to participants is €110, with an €100 concession rate.

Places must be paid for in advance. To reserve a place contact Victoria at reception at Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, phone 091 565886 or email victoria@galwayartscentre.ie

Film ‘Script Doctor’ Workshop 2012

Limerick Writers’ Centre, 12 Barrington Street, Limerick.
Film ‘Script Doctor’ workshop 2012

Saturday the 4th of February from 1pm to 5pm

It is an intensive one day ‘advanced’ film script workshop for people who already have their scripts completed and want to get them ready to submit for funding or to a production company.

Participants will send in a one paged synopsis of their idea (250 words) and either a full short film script (10-15 pages) or the first 15 pages of a feature script.  These need to be emailed a week in advance of the course.  The workshop will entail: script format, treatments, pitching and the finishing touches that are needed to get your script ‘funding’ ready!

Places must be paid for in advance.  Course fee €50 concession €45.  Booking essential contact Dominic 087 2996409 or Eleanor 086 0840137.

Email limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com or elemcsherry@gmail.com for further details.

Poems for Women's Christmas

If you're up for a poetic women's Christmas in Dublin (that's 6th January, Twelfth Night)

Oíche Nollaig na mBan event on Friday, January 6th at 6pm in association with Dublin City Council Arts Office and would be delighted if you would join us to celebrate the 12th day of Christmas in the company of

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill  

Celia De Fréine   

Mary O'Donnell   

Eilis Ní Dhuibhne   

Mia Gallagher

Sarah Clancy

with musicians Jane Hughes & Ellen Cranitch.


At the Dublin Writers Centre

Editor for Revival Literary Journal

Noel King will be the poetry editor of Revival Literary Journal for the next four issues.

Revival is the literary journal of the Limerick Writers' Centre.
It is published four time a year. Submissions, poetry and short fiction,
extracts (500 words), reviews or criticism pieces.
 
Submissions are now being accepted for issue 22 which will be published in Limerick, March 2012

The deadline for submissions is:
    Issue 22 is Fri 20th Jan 2012- Send to: - Email: revival.lit@gmail.com

Snail mail: The Editor, Revival, Moravia, Glenmore Ave., Roxboro Rd., Limerick.
Submission guidelines:Submissions, poetry and short fiction or extracts (500 words). Also Review and Criticism pieces.  

We are also  interested in receiving black and white images/line drawings for inclusion.

The Writing Room Bursary

This one's free! (But they may try to badger you into paying for an editorial report)

• First Prize: a professional editorial report, worth £1000, from our experienced literary consultants.
• Two runner-up prizes: an editorial report at half price.

Submit the first 10 pages, and a one page synopsis (approx 250 words), of a completed work of unpublished original fiction that you have written. The completed work should be a long story or novel (70 000+ words).

The closing date for entries is 31st January 2012

Check the website for terms and conditions.

Amazon Breakthrough Novel

READ THE CONDITIONS CAREFULLY before deciding whether this competition is for you

Amazon.com, along with Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace, announced the fifth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) on December 6, 2011. ABNA brings talented authors, reviewers, and publishing experts together to find and develop new voices in fiction.

If you're a writer with an unpublished or previously self-published novel waiting to be discovered, visit CreateSpace to sign up for regular Contest updates. The entry period for manuscripts begins January 23, 2012 and runs through February 5, 2012. See the Contest Official Rules for more information on how to enter.