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Contests & Competitions
Below you'll find regularly updated and growing listings of writing contests and competitions in Ireland and abroad. You can narrow down the list by limiting entries to just poetry, fiction, non-fiction or drama.
Our A Small, Good Thing Short Story Competition is a monthly affair with a €100 prize, check out the link on the right for details. We also run monthly best of competitions as well as occasional one-off writing competitions that are open to all members. If you know of a competition that we haven't covered, then feel free to submit it to us. Good luck with your writing!
Upcoming Contests
- 18.06.2012 | General | Global
The New Guard literary review is currently accepting submissions in fiction and poetry.
MACHIGONNE FICTION CONTEST: $1,000 for a work of literary or experimental fiction. Novel excerpts welcomed. 7,500 word limit. RICK BASS Judging. Deadline: June 18 (postmark). $15 entry fee.
KNIGHTVILLE POETRY CONTEST: $1,000 for a single exceptional narrative or experimental poem. 300 line limit per poem; three poems per submission. JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT Judging. Deadline: June 18 (postmark). $15 entry fee.
- 19.06.2012 | Poetry | Global
Bradshaw Books presents the launch of the Cork Literary Review Poetry Manuscript Competition 2012.
The prize includes:
1. The publication of a first collection by the winning poet.
2. The competition winner and two runners-up will be featured in volume XVI of the Cork Literary Review.
Judging this year's competition is Joseph Woods, the director of Poetry Ireland.
- David Burland Poetry Prize 201230.06.2012 | Poetry | United Kingdom
Deadline: 30th June 12
The David Burland Poetry Prize is open to poets worldwide (over the age of 18), writing in English or French. The first prize is £500, and winners and commended poets will be included in a published anthology.
For rules and guidelines, visit their website: http://www.davidburlandpoetryprize.com/
- 27.07.2012 | Poetry | Ireland
The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award is for a first unpublished collection of poems in English by an Irish poet.
The winner of this year’s award will receive €1,000 and the Award will be presented on 28th September 2012 at the opening of the Annual Patrick Kavanagh Weekend in Inniskeen.
- 08.08.2012 | General | Global
In 2012 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual creative writing competition. The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers.
The best fiction entry will win €300.
The best poetry entry will win €300.
One of these will then be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner total prize money of €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2012.
- 31.08.2012 | Poetry | Global
- 30.11.2012 | General | Global
Now in its 16th year, the New Writer magazine Prose and Poetry Prize is seeking short stories, micro-fiction, single poems, poetry collections, essays and articles.
Cash prizes as well as publication for the prize-winning writers in The Collection, special edition of The New Writer magazine each July.
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- Global | 30.11.2011
A Small, Good Thing Short Story Competition is a monthly short story competition that accepts (via email or post) short stories of up to 3000 words max.
Entry: €3 (€5 for two stories).
The prize: is €100 and publication in the Writing4all: Best of 2012 anthology.
The competition has been set up in response to the long waiting times that writers suffer when submitting work to journals and competitions. Winners are announced mid-month, so unsuccessful authors don’t have to wait too long until they can submit elsewhere.
The first competition opens on May 1, 2012, with the winner announced mid-June.
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