OPEN POETRY COMPETITION
* First Prize: £1000, 2nd: £300, 3rd: £100, 4th: 4 x £50
* Judge: Pascale Petit
* Entry fee: £5 per poem. 3 or more poems: £4 each
* Closing date: 31 January 2014
* Entries to: The Competition Organiser, 26 Courtlands, Teston, Maidstone, Kent, ME18 5AS.
* Put name and address on separate sheet – not on poem
* OR ENTER ON-LINE and pay by Paypal
For more details, go to:
Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Read More »
CLOSES: 30 NOV – TWO WEEKS TO GO!
FISH WILL PUBLISH THE TEN BEST STORIES IN THE 2013 FISH ANTHOOGY
Judge: Philip O’Ceallaigh will select the best ten stories for publication in the 2013 Fish Anthology.
Philip is the acclaimed author of two collections of short stories, Notes From a Turkish Whorehouse, and The Pleasant Light of Day. He is described by Joseph O’Connor as an author who is “touched by greatness.”
Closes: 30 November 2012.
Word limit: 5,000. There is no restriction on theme or style, and the prize is open to writers from all countries who are writing in English.
Ten best stories published.
First Prize: €3,000, of which €1,000 is for travel to the launch of the Fish Anthology in July 2013 at the West Cork Literary Festival.
Second Prize: a week at the Anam Cara Writers Retreat in West Cork, plus €300.
Third prize: €300.
Online Entry fee: €20 (€10 subsequent entries). Online Entry. Once you register and enter online, you can login and check your entry(ies) at any time.
Results: announced on 17 March on the Fish website, and sent out in the newsletter.
Stories must not have been published previously, and must be eligible for publication in the 2013 Fish Anthology.
Stories cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered. Judging at all stages is anonymous. Names or addresses must not appear on the stories, but on a separate sheet if entering by post, or in the appropriate place if entering online.
Postal entries: €22 (€12 subsequent entries)
Address: Fish Publishing, Durrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Roddy Doyle, Dermot Healy and Colum McCann are honorary patrons of the Fish Short Story Prize.
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Prose and Poetry Prizes 2012
Closing date 30 November 2012
Now in its 16th year, one of the most prestigious annual international competitions for short stories, flash fiction, single poems, poetry collections, essays and articles; offers cash prizes as well as publication for the prize-winning writers in The Collection, special edition of The New Writer magazine each July.
Further information on the Prose & Poetry Prizes including guidelines, prize money and entry fees at: http://www.thenewwriter.com/prizes.htm
Copies of The Collection 2011 are now available at the TNW website in the Single Copy window: http://www.thenewwriter.com/subscribe.htm
Writers can enter online at our secure credit card server at: http://www.thenewwriter.com/entryform.htm
Or, the entry form can be downloaded from that page on the website and sent in the post with your entry.
Also, we can supply this year’s printed entry forms on request to writers’ groups and organizations in the UK – just let us know, no SAE required.
The 2011 Prose & Poetry Prizes winners are listed on this webpage:
http://www.thenewwriter.com/prizewinners.htm
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