WriMo Ireland

Short story competition

The Brian Moore short story awards, run by the Creative Writers Network in Belfast, are this year open to anyone in Ireland or of Irish descent.

The deadline is 31st January 2008 with an entry fee of £5 per story; this year’s contest is judged by Glenn Patterson.

See here for details.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007 at 12:41 pm and is filed under competitions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

5 Comments

• Cavantucky says:

  2 December 2007 at 4:05 pm

  “currently in it’s eleventh year” for the love of Pete.

  Typos aside, sounds like a good one to try; thanks for the link. I’ve certainly spent £5 in worse ways!

  Anyone else entering?
• clairec23 says:

  2 December 2007 at 5:43 pm

  I might think about it myself. I have short stories but I don’t know what would be suitable for a competition.
• Sharp Words says:

  2 December 2007 at 6:03 pm

  I’ve got something I wrote about 16 years ago that I’ve always liked, so it’s getting a lick and a polish up to my current editing standards.
  I want to write a couple of new things though, as mentioned in my December pledge, just to prove to myself that I can – it’s been years since I wrote any short stories at all although I have ideas for them all the time.
• Cavantucky says:

  2 December 2007 at 6:26 pm

  I spent some time on the site, reading last year’s winner (VERY nice!) and such…1,000 entries last year. The competition’s heavy.

  BUT, that only means that shortlisting would be quite a feather in the ol’ writing cap. You almost HAVE to try, considering that. Good practice for the Bridport next spring!
• Sharp Words says:

  2 December 2007 at 7:49 pm

  Well, if the competition’s that fierce, I can stop having my second thoughts about letting all of you know about it! A few more entries really isn’t going to make a lot of difference…