WRITING SPIRIT 2011 - short fiction comp

Writing4all has secured Christine Dwyer-Hickey as judge for the 2011 Writing Spirit Award for short fiction. Christine wrote the acclaimed novel Tatty as well as The Dublin Trilogy. She has won awards for short stories and is a writer of great energy and wit, and she has been judging the Bryan MacMahon Award for the past number of years.

There are four deadlines (four rounds) and the first of these is the 30th of April. First prize is €1000. Entry fee €7. 4000 words max.

See the site here for more.

WRITING SPIRIT AWARD - closing soon!

There's just two weeks* left to enter the FREE TO ENTER Writing Spirit Award over at Writing4All. There's a not-to-be-sniffed at €1000 top prize.

This short fiction writing competition is open to all Writing4all members. So you just join the site and then you can enter. Easy peasy.

Word count: 750 up to 4000 words

Closing date for entries: 30th November 2009*

Prizes: First: €1000 Second: €300 Third: €150

Result: by 21st December - a nice Xmas prezzie!

All you need to know is here.

* JUST IN: THIS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 31st DEC!
NEW: Judge: Nadine O'Regan - books ed of The Sunday Business Post

WRITING4ALL - SHORT STORY TIPS ESSAY

Writing4All is a resource for Irish writers of all shades and persuasions.They call themselves 'a creative writing community where Irish writers can share and develop their work'. In fact, as it's web-based, their general info is open to all.

They have sections on events, competitions and writing news, and there is a forum you can join. They are also running a short fiction competition with a first prize of €1000.

Their Getting Started section has advice-essays from Carlo Gébler (the novel) and Gabriel Fitzmaurice (poetry) and now I have one there too, on the short story: 'Tips on how to get started as a short story writer'. You can read it here.