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 Smyth

For details of the competition and how to enter, visit

www.hungryhillwriting.com

For an introductory selection of images, visit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fg2c7PsTPw&feature=youtu.be

For further images, visit

www.millcovegallery.com

or visit Mill Cove Gallery and Sculpture Garden if you can.

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 to be made out to Doneraile Literary & Arts Society
• Poems must be typed on A4 paper. No handwritten entries will be accepted
• Entrants may submit only one poem for the competition. Poems must be the original work of the author. Poems must not have been previously published or accepted for future publication elsewhere.
• Copyright of each poem will remain with the author but Doneraile Literary & Arts Festival Committee reserve the right to publish the poem on their website to highlight the poets work
• All entries must be accompanied by an entry form. The name of the entrant must not appear on the poem itself.
• The Judges decision is final.
• Closing date for receipt of applications is July 1st 2012
• The winning prize will be 500 Euro and presentation by one of our guests of the Edward Spencer Perpetual Poetry Award
• Submission of a poem automatically deems acceptance of each of the above conditions

Please post entries FAO Diarmuid Hudner, The Doneraile Literary & Arts Festival, Edmund Spenser Poetry Competition, Creagh Castle, Doneraile, Co. Cork. For further information please contact Diarmuid Hudner, Festival Committee Chairman on 087 – 167 -5809 or email hudnerdiarmuid@gmail.com

Canon Sheehan Short Story Competition

Prize E1000

Conditions of Entry

• The competition is open to people aged 18 or over
• Stories must not be more than 2000 words. The stories may be on any subject
• The story must be fictional
• Entries to be submitted with a fee of 10 Euros. Please do not send cash. Cheques/postal orders to be made out to Doneraile Literary & Arts Society
• Stories must be typed on A4 paper. No handwritten entries will be accepted
• Entrants may submit only one short story for the competition. Stories must be the original work of the author. Stories must not have been previously published or accepted for future publication elsewhere.
• Copyright of each story will remain with the author but Doneraile Literary & Arts Festival Committee reserve the right to publish the story on their website to highlight the authors work
• All entries must be accompanied by an entry form. The name of the entrant must not appear on the story itself.
• The Judges decision is final.
• Closing date for receipt of applications is July 1st 2012
• The winning prize will be 1000 Euro and presentation by one of our guests of the Canon Sheehan Perpetual Literary Award.
• Submission of a story automatically deems acceptance of each of the above conditions

Please forward your entries FAO Diarmuid Hudner, Doneraile Literary & Arts Festival, Canon Sheehan Short Story Competition, Creagh Castle, Doneraile Co. Cork. For further information please contact Diarmuid Hudner, Festival Committee Chairman on 087 – 167 -5809 or emailhudnerdiarmuid@gmail.com

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This year’s judge is Noel King and the best 35 poems will be published in an anthology which will be launched at the festival with €350 going to the writer of the ‘best poem’.

For information email fermoypoetryfestival@gmail.com

If you read it and like it please vote!

She says, “This is not a story for young children but older ones may find it educational. I’ve also won a journalism award – runner up for an article I wrote on teen drinking.”

Hugely well done – I know she’d like your support if you can LIKE her story! Excerpt below:

The Most Interesting Person At The Party

Miles had perfected the art of being the most interesting person at any party.  He brought show-off wines to dinner parties, carried the latest smartphone with the latest apps to demonstrate, wore not loud, but distinctive clothes, such as hand-sewn silk ties and hand-stitched leather shoes, and knew a little about a lot of people and topics so he could interject a witty or wise comment into any discussion.  This strategy had served him well, for he had observed soon after entering the world of business that a lot of deals and promotions were actually done over meals, golf rounds and corporate entertainment events…

Journal of Renga & Renku includes a variety of content that will interest Asian Studies scholars as well as teachers and students of English literature/poetry; it will also be of interest to poets experimenting with the writing of renku in a number of languages around the world today, and to practitioners exploring aspects of renku and its za as an educational and therapeutic tool.

Send an email to rengarenku@gmail.com (RengaRenku AT gmail DOT com) to sign up for notices of our progress reports, calls for content, and other news about the journal. More detail at www.darlingtonrichards.com

Hi Vanessa,
I entered a UK first chapter competition, Novelicious Undiscovered, a commercial women’s lit competition.
My piece ‘The Irish Poet’ has been shortlisted.
The twenty first chapters will be featured on the Novelicious site during May and mine is featured on 10th May.
There is a public vote and publishers decide the other prize winner.
If anyone wishes to vote for me, I would be delighted for any support. I am not sure if there are any other Irish writers on the list, I didn’t recognise any of the names.
The link is here:

http://www.novelicious.com/2012/04/novelicious-undiscovered-the-top-20.html#tpe-action-posted-6a010536b33b69970b0168eaa33470970c

She’d love your support!

Anam Cara Writer’s and Artist’s Retreat www.anamcararetreat.com is again awarding a week-long residency to the first prize winner of the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition. Located just outside the colourful village of Eyeries on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork, Anam Cara is a tranquil spot structured to provide support and sanctuary for people working in the creative arts. It offers private and common working rooms as well as five acres of walking paths, thirty-four nooks and crannies, a river cascades and a river island, gardens, and a labyrinth meadow. Editoral consultation is also available. The prize is valued at €700. (The dates of the residency will be arranged between the writer themselves and Anam Cara, and can be scheduled before or after the week of the Cork International Short Story Festival. Otherwise, the week can be scheduled for another time of the year, at Anam Cara’s discretion.)

The competition is open to original, unpublished and unbroadcast short stories in the English language of 3,000 words or fewer. The story can be on any subject, in any style, by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, translated work is not in the scope of this competition.

First Prize: €2,000 (*approx $2690.82/ £1685.27), publication in the literary journal Southword,
AND a week-long residency at Anam Cara Writer’s and Artist’s Retreat. 

Second Prize: €500 and publication in Southword.

Four other shortlisted entries will be selected for publication in Southword and receive a publication fee of €120.

*Currency exchange amounts via XE.com, calculated 27.02.12. If the winner is from outside Ireland, the amount paid will be the equivalent of €2,000, subject to market changes as determined by the bank in September 2012.

Submission deadline: 31 July, 2012. Judge: Ian Wild.

Full details: http://www.munsterlit.ie/SOF%20Page.html