The
Merriman Short Story Competition
The
Merriman Short Story Competition is dedicated to the memory of the late Maeve
Binchy, who was a life-long supporter of Cumann Merriman and a regular visitor
to the Merriman Summer School. A prize of €1000 will be awarded to the winning
short story, which must be original, unpublished and unbroadcast.
Entries
should be not more than 2,500 words in length and set in Ireland. Stories may
be written in Irish or English. The competition is confined to writers born or
living on the island of Ireland.
Closing
date for entries is October 31st 2012.
The Moth
Magazine– Short Story Prize
1st prize is€1,000, and this year
we have a 2nd prize of a week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France.
The judge is Martina Evans.
Martina has published four books of poetry and three novels. Her first novel, Midnight
Feast, won a
Betty Trask Award and her third novel, No Drinking No Dancing
No Doctors, won an
Arts Council England Award. In 2011, she was awarded the Ciampi International
poetry prize by the Premio Poesia Ciampi Committee from Livorno, Italy.
Closing
date is 31 March 2013. Further details are available on our website.
Reminder:
The Novel Fair
The Novel
Fair was a new initiative by the
Irish Writers’ Centre launched in 2011. It aims to introduce up-and-coming
writers to top publishers and literary agents, giving novelists the opportunity
to bypass the slush pile, pitch their ideas and place their synopsis and sample
chapters directly into the hands of publishers and agents. Due to
the success of the Fair we have decided to run it again in 2013, with an
additional prize of a place on a seminar on ‘How to Pitch Your Novel’ to help
the novelists perfect their presentations and material for the day
The deadline for the competition
this year is October 17th and the Novel Fair
itself will take place on February 16th, 2013. The Novel Fair Competition costs
€40 to enter (€35 for members of the Irish Writers’ Centre). Go to Novel Fair for further information
Poetry Ireland
