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Friday 4 May 2018
Words By Water, Kinsale Literary Festival
Words By Water: Kinsale Literary Festival is delighted to welcome entries to the Words By Water Short Story Award. Writers are invited to submit a short story of up to 2000 words, for consideration by judge Alannah Hopkin.
Theme: Open
Prize:
1st Prize is €400 plus publication in the Evening Echo.
How to Enter:
Email your entry to : wordsbywater@gmail.com
Payment of €14 per entry :
Terms and Conditions:
This is an open competition for a short story on any subject matter.
The competition is open to people of 16 years and older.
Competition is open internationally.
1st Prize is €400 publication in the Evening Echo.
Entries must be in English.
Entries must be no more than 2,000 words in length. Longer entries will not be permitted and will be automatically rejected
Entries must be the original work of the author and must not have been previously published either in writing or electronically. Entries which have received awards in other competitions are also ineligible.
The author’s name and details should only appear on the accompanying e-mail. Please ensure that the title is clearly marked at the top of the entry and each page thereafter. The author’s name must NOT appear on the entry submitted, only on the e-mail accompanying the piece.
Entries will be accepted between March 1 and July 15, 2018. Entries received after this date will not be considered.
The judge’s decision is final and Kinsale Literary Festival will not enter into correspondence concerning the judging or merits awarded. The onus is on the author to ensure that their entry complies with the rules of the competition
Entries should be submitted electronically only, by email to wordsbywater@gmail.com. Hard copies are not admissible.
Shortlisted writers will be invited to attend the award ceremony in October, however all expenses incurred will be the writer’s own. The shortlist will be sent to all entrants and announced publicly one month before the festival.
While copyright of the short story will remain with the author, Kinsale Literary Festival reserves the right to arrange the first publication and broadcast of the selected works. The right to use the stories to further publicise this award is also retained by Kinsale Literary Festival. The winning author will agree to have their photograph taken and used for publicity purposes by Kinsale Literary Festival
The entry fee of €14 must be paid via our online payment system, using the entrant’s name as the reference.
Poetry Competition 2018
Words By Water: Kinsale Literary Festival is delighted to welcome entries to the Words By Water Poetry Awards. Poets are invited to submit poems up to a maximum of 30 lines,
for consideration by judges Matthew Geden (English entries) and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (Irish entries).
Theme: Open
There are two competitions, one in English and one in Irish.
Theme: open
Prize:
1st Prize is €200 plus publication in the Evening Echo,
How to Enter:
Email your entry to : wordsbywater@gmail.com
Payment of €8 per entry :
Terms and Conditions.
There is no restriction on subject matter.
The competition is open to people of 16 years and older.
Competition is open internationally.
Entries must be in English or Irish.
1st Prize is €200 plus publication in the Evening Echo.
Entries can be up to and including 30 lines in length.
Entries must be the original work of the author and must not have been previously published either in writing or electronically. Entries which have received awards in other competitions are also ineligible.
The author’s name and details should be included when the poem is submitted. The poems will be passed on to the judge without these details, all poems will be judged as anonymous.
Entries will be accepted between March 1 and July 15 2018. Entries received after this date will not be considered.
The judge’s decision is final and Kinsale Literary Festival will not enter into correspondence concerning the judging or merits awarded. The onus is on the author to ensure that their entry complies with the rules of the competition
Entries should be submitted electronically only, by email to wordsbywater@gmail.com. Hard copies will not be admissible.
Shortlisted poets will be invited to attend the award ceremony in October, however all expenses incurred will be the writer’s own. The shortlist will be sent to all entrants and announced publicly one month before the festival.
While copyright of the poem will remain with the author, Kinsale Literary Festival reserves the right to arrange the first publication and broadcast of the selected works. The right to use the poems to further publicise this award is also retained by Kinsale Literary Festival. The winning poet will agree to have their photograph taken and used for publicity purposes by Kinsale Literary Festival
The entry fee is €8 per poem and must be paid via our online payment system, using the entrant’s name as the reference.
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