2015 iYeats Poetry Competition

The iYeats Poetry Competition is an annual, online, international poetry competition, open to all those 16 years of age and upwards.

They have an overall prize across the board of entries and an emerging prize to a young poet aged between 16-25 years of age.

PRIZES
General category: First Prize €500
Emerging category: €300 (aged 16 – 25 years)

Closing date for entries: Wed 1 July, 2015 at 5pm

Judges for 2015 are Jane Clarke and Dave Lordan. - interesting combination, both good poets. I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that! But then I enjoy listening to either of them.

Fee: €5 per poem or €12 for three

More information and entry here

Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition

The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition is an annual short story competition open to writers from around the world, submissions accepted from May to July annually. It is dedicated to one of Ireland’s most accomplished story writers and theorists, sponsored by the Munster Literature Centre.

If the winner comes to Cork to collect their prize, they say they will lavish them with hotel accommodation, meals, drinks and VIP access to the literary stars at the Cork International Short Story Festival (23 – 26 September 2015).

The Munster Literature Centre is a not-for-profit organisation; all moneys raised from the competition benefits writers and writing.

First Prize: €2,000 (approx $2153/£1431 in April 2015), 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 more shortlisted entries will be selected for publication in Southword and receive a publication fee of €120.

This year’s judge is Danielle McLaughlin 

The competition is open to original, unpublished and unbroadcast short stories in the English language of 3,000 words or fewer.

Entry fee of €15 or £15

Deadline 31st July 2015

Link here

Family Matters Short Story anthology

From Michael Farry's blog

International author and editor Frank Joussen from Germany is looking for short stories (500 - 3,500 words approx.) or very creatively written non-fiction stories that focus strongly on relationships within the family.

Frank was one of the co-editors of the international anthology "Family Matters" by Indian publisher Nivasini which included a number of stories and poems by Irish authors.

As in that book, the aim is to string together stories from many different cultures, age groups, religions, countries. How much do we really know about family life in other countries, other cultures? How much of our cultural knowledge is based on hearsay or worn out clichés?

The stories will be translated into German, therefore the editor is only asking for first-time publication rights in the German language. All rights remain with the authors and the English original version can still be considered unpublished. Previously published pieces are also more than welcome.

For reviews of the original "Family Matters" anthology please go to here and here.

The deadline is 1 July. 

Frank pays one complimentary copy and is willing to send you more copies at a reduced price.

Hungry Hill Writing Poetry Competition

Hungry Hill Writing has launched their Wild Atlantic Words poetry competitions.

First prizes of €500 in the open competition and €50 in the school students’ competition. 
Entries may be on any theme related to coastal landscape or maritime life and heritage. 

Judge: Breda Wall Ryan and she will judge entries anonymously.

Deadline: 19 July 2015

Each poem must not exceed 40 lines

 
Up to three poems may be submitted per entry

A fee of €10 is payable per entry of up to three poems. 

More details here

Interestingly they also say

Hungry Hill Writing reserves the right to disqualify entries which are reasonably deemed libellous or otherwise actionable under civil or criminal law. In such cases entry fees will not be refunded.

I wonder what the story is there?

And they have announced the Wild Atlantic Words poetry festival, to be held on 5 and 6 September 2015 in Castletownbere, County Cork.  It will include workshops led by award-winning poets, public readings, an open mic event, and publication of the competition anthologies.

The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2015

The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award for a first unpublished collection of poems in English is open to poets, born in the island of Ireland, or of Irish nationality, or long term resident in Ireland. 

Manuscripts accepted for publication shall be eligible ONLY if the resulting collection of poems is NOT published before the judges’ decision is announced.

The award is now in its 45th year.

Deadline Friday 24th July 2015

The adjudicator is Brian Lynch - I think they should change. He's been judging this for years.

The entry fee is €25/£25

The winner of this year’s award will receive €1,000.

Rules and entry form from the Patrick Kavanagh Centre, Inniskeen:

E-mail: infoatpkc@eircom.net www.patrickkavanaghcountry.com

Southword journal Submissions

Southword is now accepting submissions of poetry in English,
and short stories and poetry as Gaeilge.

Submitting via Submittable (formerly Submishmash) is quick, easy and free! The only details you are required to provide is your name and email address. The advantage to using this site is that submitters will now be able to check the status of their submission, seeing easily for themselves whether their work has been accepted or declined. To send poetry or short stories to Southword Journal Online, click here to go to Southword's Submittable page.

There is a strict submission limit of six poems or two short fiction pieces of 3000 words each. Authors are paid €30 per poem and/or €120 per story published in Southword Journal.

More details here

Check previous journals for an idea of what they're looking for.

Deadline: 15th September

Update: Per facebook, it's 31st July

Poems on a Beermat

Bradford on Avon Arts Festival 2014

Entries are invited for an Open Poetry Competition on the theme of Light

Deadline: July 30th 2014.

There will be a prize of £200 for the best poem submitted, with discretionary second and third place awards of £50 and £25 if the quality of entries merits them.
Ten short-listed poems will be printed on to beermats and placed in pubs in Bradford on Avon and surrounding villages for the duration of the 2014 Bradford on Avon Arts Festival (September 1st-20th).
Poems must therefore be short - there is a strict limit of 12 lines.
All shortlisted poets will receive 25 beermats printed with their own poem and name.

Judge
The adjudicator of the competition will be poet Martin Malone.
 
Entry Fee: £4 per poem or £10 for 3 poems

Contact: Please send your entries together with your entry fee (details) and full contact details to: Dawn Gorman, ABR House, Prospect Place, Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14 8QA.

For more details about Bradford on Avon Arts Festival, go to www.BoaArtsFestival.com

Love on the Road Writing Contest

Deadline: July 31, 2014.

Malinki Press will choose their favourite 12 submissions and send those to their independent panel of judges. The judges will choose first-, second-, and third-prize winners. They'll announce the winners in September and award them prizes of $200, $100, and $50, respectively.

They will work with Dublin-based Liberties Press to publish Love on the Road 2015: Another Twelve Tales of Love and Travel as a trade paperback in the spring of 2015. They will also make the paperback available via Amazon and Flipkart, and publish it as an ebook.

Submission Guidelines

They're looking for stories about people making connections, whether these connections are platonic, the kinds that lead to weddings, the kinds that just lead to bed, or the kinds that lead to heartbreak. They're interested in stories about people traveling together, travelers who meet people while on the road, or people who meet travelers passing through.

Submissions should be 4,000 to 6,000 words and can be fiction or nonfiction. They must be original and cannot have been previously published. Please send them as a .doc, .rtf or similar file, written in single-spaced 12pt Times New Roman font, with your name and contact details on the first page. Submissions from LGBTQ writers are welcome.

There is a US$10 per story reading fee.

If you want to get a better idea of the kinds of stories they like, you'd do well to read the ones we picked last year in Love on the Road 2013: Twelve Tales of Love and Travel.

The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition

The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition is an annual short story competition dedicated to one of Ireland's most accomplished story writers and theorists.

If the winner comes to Cork to collect their prize,they promise to lavish them with hotel accommodation, meals, drinks and VIP access to the literary stars at the Cork International Short Story Festival (16 - 20 September 2014).

Deadline is 31 July 2014

Judge is Joyce Russell, author of 'Bloodlines' (Mercier Press) and was winner of the 2006 Seán Ó Faoláin Competition. More information, including submission guidelines, may be found on their website:
http://www.munsterlit.ie or via their
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OFaolainCompetition

First Prize: €2,000 (approx $2760/£1640 in April 2014), 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.

RTE Guide/Penguin Short Story Competition

The RTE Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition is now open for entries. Winning stories will be published in the RTE Guide.

All entries for the 2014 RTÉ Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition should be original, unpublished and previously not broadcast short stories in English, of 2,000 words or less.

Entrants’ name and contact details (address, phone and/or email) should be on a separate page.

Deadline: 6pm on Friday, July 11. Entries are welcome from anywhere in the world.

Send your entries to:
RTÉ Guide/Penguin Ireland
Short Story Competition, PO
Box 1480, RTÉ, Donnybrook,
Dublin 4

or you can email to: rteguide@rte.ie, making sure to label your entry ‘Short Story Competition’

iYeats Poetry Competition

The iYeats Poetry Competition, now in its sixth year has become one of the most highly-regarded in the country, attracting hundreds of entries from across Ireland and abroad. An online, national and international competition, there are 2 categories; 

• General (all adults)
• Emerging Talent (for poets between the ages of 16 and 25)

Judges:  Peter Sirr and Catherine Phil MacCarthy

Judging is anonymous

 

PRIZES

First Prize €500
Emerging Prize €300
Commended X2 €50

All winning poets will have their entries published on the Hawk’s Well Theatre Website and will be offered the chance to read their work at Aloud an intimate evening of original poetry from our eminent past judges and the 2014 winners. This ceremony will take place during the 2014 Yeats International Summer School.

 

Deadline: Wednesday 10th July, 2014

Winners will be notified by Monday 21 July,  2014
Results Publicly Announced: 1pm, Thurs 31 July, 2014

Fee: €5 per poem or €12 for three

 

You can view last year's winning poems here.

Link here  for more details

Dermot Healy Poetry Competition

 

The competition, just launched by the Five Glens Festival, is now open for submissions.

Deadline: 15th July 2014

Update: Extended to Sunday 20th July

The prize money is 1,000 euro, and shortlisted entrants will be invited to read their work at the festival.

Dermot Healy himself will be judging the shortlisted poems and will present the prize to the winning poet.

The ceremony will take place over the course of the Five Glens festival which runs from 22nd - 24th August in in the town of Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim and the area of the surrounding five glens.

Entry fee is €5 per poem

All the details are available on the website.

www.fiveglensartsfestival.com

http://fiveglensfestival.wordpress.com

Limerick Bursaries for Tyrone Guthrie Centre

Limerick Arts Office Offering Two Bursaries for Tyrone Guthrie Centre

Limerick Arts Office is offering 2 bursaries for the The Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Each Bursary covers all board and lodging expenses for a week.

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig is a residential workplace for artists, dedicated to supporting and facilitating creativity within a welcoming and trusted environment.
It is an established and central part of cultural life in Ireland and is the largest residency of its type for artists in this country.

Download your application form here.

Deadline: 5PM FRIDAY 4th JULY 

All applications to Limerick Arts Office must be submitted electronically to artsoffice@limerick.ie and marked clearly as ‘TGB 14’

Writing competition in Trim Swift Festival

The Battle of the Books is an international writing competition (open to poetry and prose) organised by the Swift Satire Festival in Trim, Co Meath

A prize of €500 will be awarded to the winning entry.

• Poems: minimum 40 lines, maximum 60 lines. 
• Prose: minimum 800 words, maximum 1,000 words 

Entry fee is €5 per entry or €10 for three entries.
(Note: I recommend entering 3 as judging is always subjective when it comes to the top few) 

Deadline Tuesday 1^st July, 2014

Judging is by Niamh Boyce

Travel is the theme of the competition, but the interpretation of ‘travel’ will be very wide indeed.

The competition is being run by the Festival, which will take place on Saturday/Sunday 12^th/13^th July. Shortlisted competitors will be invited to read their entries at a function in the town on the Saturday night. Writers who cannot attend will have their pieces read for them by actors or other writers.

Note: previous publication elsewhere does NOT disqualify. The material must, of course, be the entrant’s own work.

Lots more info here