Elizabeth (EM) Reapy is an Irish
writer. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University,
Belfast, edits wordlegs.com and is the director of Shore Writers’ Festival in Enniscrone. She compiled and
edited 30 under 30: A Selection of
Short Fiction by Thirty Young Irish Writers. In 2013 she was selected as the Irish
representative for PEN International’s New Voices Award, where she made
the long-list of 6 writers.
Knute Skinner was born in St. Louis,
Missouri, but now lives in Co. Clare,
Ireland.
His collection, Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007, from Salmon,
contained new work along with work taken from thirteen previous
books. The Other Shoe won the 2004-2005 Pavement Saw
Chapbook Award. A
memoir, Help Me to a
Getaway, was published by Salmon in March 2010. A new book of
poems, Concerned Attentions, was published by Salmon in
September 2013.
The WOW! Award has €2100 in prize money plus
publication. Stories up to 3000 words. Poems up to 100 lines. Closing
date: Thursday October 31st 2013. Full details here.
