You've got six days to get in your short stories for the Writing Spirit Award. That's six days to get a story ready to win €1000. Max. word count is 4,000 words and the judge is Christine Dwyer Hickey.
The contest is open to all nationalities and all genres.
What's the prize?
First Prize: €1000, Second Prize: €200, Third Prize: €100
The prize-winning stories, along with merited stories will be published in an anthology at the end of the competition.
30th November
Stories should be no more than 4,000 words max - but there is no minimum word count, and flash fiction is welcome. Stories should be typed, double spaced on one side of A4 (or equivalent) paper.
The judge
Christine Dwyer Hickey is an award winning novelist and short-story writer. She is the author of The Dublin Trilogy: The Dancer, The Gambler and The Gatemaker which span the story of a Dublin family from 1913 to 1956. Her novel Tatty was short-listed for Irish Book of the Year in 2005 and was also long-listed for The Orange Prize. Her latest novel, Last Train From Liguria, is set in 1930s Fascist Italy and Dublin in the 1990s and was published in June 2009 by Atlantic Books (UK). The paperback edition of Last Train From Liguria was issued in 2010. Tatty was been nominated for The Irish Book of the Decade competition. She is a member of Aosdana.
What's the entrance fee?
€7 per story
Want to know more/enter? Visit http://writing4all.ie/writing-spirit
Note: third round shortlistees will be named on Tuesday, November 29!
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