Hungry Hill Writing and Mill Cove Gallery are delighted to announce the 2012 Poets Meet Painters writing competition for poems inspired by works of art at Mill Cove Gallery and Sculpture Garden Prize: €200 Closing date: 1 July 2012 Entry fee: €6 for up to three poems Judge: Cherry…
Doneraile Literary & Arts Festival 2012 Edmund Spenser Poetry Competition Conditions of Entry The competition is open to people aged 18 or over Poems must not be more than 30 lines. The poems may be on any subject Entries to be submitted with a fee of 10 Euros. Cheques/postal orders…
The Scarlet Ribbon, the debut novel from Derry O’Dowd, is the fiction line launch novel for The History Press Ireland. In an unusual collaboration between father and daughter, Michael and Katy O’Dowd (writing under the pen name Derry O’Dowd), the novel is a romance, set during the years 1737-1742 in Paris, London, Dublin and Galway.
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