Competitions

 

Creative Writing Ink Short Story Competition

Monthly

Apart from external writing competitions, we also run monthly competitions. The closing date is the last day of every month. There is no entry fee and to enter email your entry to info@creativewriting.ie. The subject line in your email should state “Creative Writing Ink Competition” and please paste your short story or poem into the body of the email, as we do not accept attachments.

We are looking for short stories or poetry and the word limit is 3,000 words. Entries should be in English and we accept submissions from writers around the world. You can submit previously published material. One overall winner will be selected every month and        over your material. The winners will be published in Creative Writing Ink’s e-journal (with your permission of course). You have the right to refuse such permission. Prize: Gift voucher. (Voucher type varies from month to month, can include writing courses, holiday and beauty vouchers) Usual voucher value – €150

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Kazoo Independent Publishing Services

Closing date: 30.06.13

Do you have the next international bestseller hidden away in a drawer? Fancy yourself as    EL James or Roddy Doyle? This is your chance to step into the limelight!

Kazoo Independent Publishing Services is teaming up with the RTÉ Guide and the John       Murray Show to offer you the opportunity to publish your book and make it big on the literary scene.

With independent authors now regularly hitting the Amazon bestseller lists, self-publishing has become hugely attractive to writers who want to earn higher royalties, retain the rights to their work and take advantage of social media to promote their books.

The Kazoo team has over 50 years’ experience in trade publishing and we’ll help you join the ranks of successful indie authors by turning your manuscript into a professionally produced book and eBook. Your work will be edited, typeset and printed to the highest publishing-  industry standards and you’ll work with a designer to create a unique and eye-catching           cover.

So send us your entry and you could soon be seeing your name on the cover of your bestseller!

Entrants must submit an original, unpublished manuscript of up to 100,000 words in length. This can be fiction or non-fiction, for children or adults, but it cannot be an illustrated book. Your submission must be a completed manuscript; we want to see the whole book.

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Five Stop Story

Closing dates:  30.06.13 (Summer competition), 30.09.13 (Autumn competition), 31.12.13 (Winter competition)

Five Stop Story is an innovative electronic publisher, specialising in short stories by new      writers. Their short stories can be read in five stops on the London Underground, on their          iPhone or iPad app or in their Kindle books.

They welcome stories of up to 3,000 words on any subject or theme and are open to UK and international entrants aged 16 and over.

Enter up to 5 stories per competition fees are : 1 entry: £5, 2 entries: £9, 3 entries: £12, 4      entries: £14, 5 entries: £15. If you think you are likely to enter several competitions you can        become a member and enter up to 5 stories for each competition in 2013. Membership costs £25.

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Over the Edge New Writer of the Year 2013

Closing date: 07.08.13

In 2013 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual creative writing competition. Since its inception in 2007, it has grown to become one of the most important competition’s for emerging writers in Ireland and internationally.

The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers worldwide. The total prize money is €1,000. The best fiction entry will win €300. The best poetry entry will win €300. One of       these will then be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400, giving      the overall winner total prize money of €700 and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2013.

The 2013 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year will be a Featured Reader at Ireland’s      leading literary reading series, the Over The Edge: Open Readings in Galway City Library, on a date to be scheduled in Winter 2013/14. Salmon Poetry will read, without commitment to         publish, a manuscript submitted to them by the winner in the poetry category. Doire Press    will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript of short stories submitted to them    by the winner in the fiction category. In two new additions to the prize this year the overall winner will receive a hamper of books from the famous Kenny’s Bookshop of Galway and the winner in the poetry category will have one of the poems from her or his winning entry     published in the January 2014 issue of Skylight 47 magazine.

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Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition

Closing date: 31.08.13

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition is now open for entries! The competition         celebrates and champions creative writing, nurturing talent and bringing work to I           nternational attention. Aesthetica is inviting all writers and poets to submit to the Aesthetica         Creative Writing Competition 2013. There are two categories for entry, Poetry and Short         Fiction, and a selection of fantastic prizes including:

• £500 prize money – Poetry winner
• £500 prize money – Short Fiction winner
• Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual
• Complimentary copy of the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual
• A selection of books from our competition partners

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The Short Story Competition

Closing date: 15.09.13

Now in its third year, The Short Story competition is open for 2013 entries: This competition            is looking to publish the best short stories from around the world. New or established        writers welcome. Winners will be announced in December 2013 and the stories will be published on our website.

Deadline for submission is 15th September 2013. Word limit: 1,000 – 4,000. Entry fee: £5 via PayPal, please ensure that you have read the submission guidelines!

First prize: £300

Second prize: £150

Third prize: £50

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The Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize

Closing date: 31.12.13

The Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize, which is sponsored by Ireland’s famous Ballymaloe Cookery School, is being launched in New York this June. Set to be one of the    biggest prizes for a single poem in the world, there are three cash prizes for a single    unpublished poem, and this year they are a whopping €10,000 (c. $13,000), €2,000 (c.             $2,600) and €1,000 (c. $1,300), making it one of the most lucrative prizes in the poetry       world.

The judge is New York State Poet Laureate, Marie Howe. She will be reading at the launch at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn on the evening of 7 June alongside award-winning poets Nick Laird and Catherine Barnett. The competition, which opens on 1st June, is run in association with Ireland’s international arts and literature magazine The Moth, which features poetry, short fiction, art and interviews, from the likes of J. P. Donleavy, Anne Enright, Paul          Muldoon, DBC Pierre and Les Murrary.

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