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Opportunities & Competitions: February 2022
February 1, 2022 12:08 pm Comments Off on Opportunities & Competitions: February 2022Each month we update our Competitions & Submissions page, along with our Bursaries & Funding, to ensure that we are connecting our writers with the best upcoming opportunities. To help you get motivated this new year, here are a few deadlines we wanted to highlight in February! The Honest Ulsterman Deadline: 1st February We’re calling for poetry (up to 3 poems), prose and critical writing, suggestions for interviews etc for our February 2022 issue. Prose can be up to 5000 words. We prefer submissions to be made in Word (or similar – not PDF) format. We’d also welcome video poetry. Video submissions should have a link to YouTube etc. Please put your name and short bio in the body of your submission email otherwise it may accidentally end up in the Spam folder. There is no fee for submitting. As... Read Moreread more.
Online Consultation on Pilot Basic Income for the Arts
January 12, 2022 2:07 pm Comments Off on Online Consultation on Pilot Basic Income for the ArtsOn Thursday, 6 January 2022, Catherine Martin TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media launched an online consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) pilot scheme to elicit the views of artists, those working in the arts and culture sector and the public. The online consultation is available for response until the consultation closes on 27 January 2022. Writers who would like to contribute can do so by sharing their thoughts via this survey. The program will cover two thousand arts and culture workers for a span of three years. The government has earmarked €25 million ($28.3 million) for the plan, which is expected to go into force later this winter. The online consultation runs through January 27 and follows on a report from a task force assembled by Martin last year to wrestle with... Read Moreread more.
Opportunities & Competitions: January 2022
January 4, 2022 12:24 pm Comments Off on Opportunities & Competitions: January 2022Each month we update our Competitions & Submissions page to ensure that we are connecting our writers with the best upcoming opportunities. To help you get motivated this new year, here are a few deadlines we wanted to highlight in January! The White Review Poet’s Prize Deadline: 6th January The Poet’s Prize is run in partnership with CHEERIO, and is for English-language poets who are at the crucial stage of creating their debut pamphlet or collection. The Prize was founded in 2017 with support from Jerwood Charitable Foundation. This year’s judges are Rachel Long, Nisha Ramayya and Jay G Ying. The winning poet will receive a financial reward of £2,500, as well as expert, personalised professional and editorial advice and publication of their entry in THE WHITE REVIEW. The Cormorant: Issue 7 Deadline: 10th January The Cormorant, established by Una Mannion,... Read Moreread more.
12 Emerging Writers Selected as the Winners of Novel Fair 2022
December 16, 2021 11:15 am Comments Off on 12 Emerging Writers Selected as the Winners of Novel Fair 2022The Irish Writers Centre is delighted to announce that twelve emerging writers have been selected from almost 400 entrants to take part in Novel Fair 2022 on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th February 2022. This marks the 10 year anniversary of Novel Fair, an initiative which allows unpublished writers the opportunity to break through to the UK & Irish publishing world. Our 12 Novel Fair winners will pitch their work to top publishers and agents in a series of one-to-one meetings. In 2022, the Irish Writers Centre is planning on running a hybrid version of the Fair, taking place both online and in person thus allowing publishers, agents and finalists to participate from around the globe. The Novel Fair 2022 winners are; Rachel Blackmore Rachel Blackmore studied Renaissance history before becoming a speechwriter. She now writes historical fiction, using the language... Read Moreread more.
Opportunities & Competitions: December 2021
December 6, 2021 3:51 pm Comments Off on Opportunities & Competitions: December 2021Each month we update our Competitions & Submissions page to ensure that we are connecting our writers with the best upcoming opportunities. Here are a few we wanted to highlight this December! Stony Thursday Poetry Book Deadline: 8th December The Stony Thursday Book is seeking submissions from local, national and international poets for its next issue, to be published in Spring 2022. It was founded by Limerick poets John Liddy and Jim Burke in 1975, and has been edited by poets such as Mark Whelan, Kevin Byrne, Patrick Bourke, Knute Skinner, Thomas McCarthy, Ciarán O’Driscoll, Mary Coll, Jo Slade, Paddy Bushe, Peter Sirr, Mary O’Donnell, John Davies, Nessa O’Mahony and Martin Dyar. The Stony Thursday Book is one of the longest-running literary journals in Ireland and this will be its 44th edition, No.18 in the new series. This year’s Editor of the... Read Moreread more.
The Irish Writers Centre unveils new website and special video to celebrate its 30th anniversary year
December 2, 2021 3:23 pm Comments Off on The Irish Writers Centre unveils new website and special video to celebrate its 30th anniversary year‘The very notion of a Writers Centre would have been unthinkable then’ John Banville, Anne Enright, Ciara Ní É, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and Valerie Bistany reflect on the Irish writing landscape over the past 30 years The Irish Writers Centre is celebrating its 30th anniversary and has marked this milestone year with the launch of a new website and a special 30th anniversary video that reflects on the contribution the organisation has made to the Irish writing landscape over the past three decades. Featuring IWC Ambassadors Anne Enright, John Banville and Ciara Ní É, along with Board Member and writer Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, and IWC Director Valerie Bistany, the video offers their perspectives on the past, present and future of the Irish Writers Centre. The full video is available to view here: https://youtu.be/EOLbpfff5XY In the video, John Banville highlights the early impact... Read Moreread more.
Opportunities & Competitions: November 2021
November 9, 2021 11:19 am Comments Off on Opportunities & Competitions: November 2021Each month we update our Competitions & Submissions page to ensure that we are connecting our writers with the best upcoming opportunities. Here are a few we wanted to highlight this November! 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses Deadline: 15th November Books published in the calendar year 2021 are eligible, and submissions close in November 2021. The prize is open to works of fiction by a single author published by a small press in the UK and Ireland with five or fewer full-time employees or equivalent. We are the only prize in the UK that welcomes long form, short form, English language and translated fiction. Over the past five years the prize has recognised 38 small presses from 13 towns and cities in the UK and Ireland, and awarded over £60,000 in prize-money to publishers and authors in that time.... Read Moreread more.
Announcing our 2021 IWC/DBF Young Writer Delegates
October 21, 2021 2:31 pm Comments Off on Announcing our 2021 IWC/DBF Young Writer DelegatesWe are happy to announce that the 2021 IWC/DBF Young Writer Delegates are Abby Connolly, Eilish Mulholland, Kel Menton and Róisín Ní Riain. Their professional mentor for the festival period will be Irish fiction and arts writer Sue Rainsford. Now in its fourth year, the IWC Young Writer Delegates Programme gives young writers an opportunity to immerse themselves in a literature festival and to contribute to it as active participants. You can keep up with the Young Writer Delegates on their Instagram page, and through the Irish Writers Centre and DBF social media channels. Abby Connolly Abby Connolly is currently a final year English Studies student in TCD. This year her final project will be a long form creative writing piece and during her time in college she has written a short play, poetry, short stories and reviews for various Trinity publications and societies. She hopes to write in... Read Moreread more.
Opportunities & Competitions: October 2021
October 6, 2021 4:32 pm Comments Off on Opportunities & Competitions: October 2021Each month we update our Competitions & Submissions page to ensure that we are connecting our writers with the best upcoming opportunities. Here are a few we wanted to highlight this October! Millay Arts: Core Residency Deadline: 8th October 2021 Located in the Hudson Valley, nestled against the Berkshires, our sylvan and secluded hilltop offers idyllic meadows and woods and is situated close to various world-renowned cultural institutions. We are 2-1/2 hours from both Boston and NYC; transportation to/from train, bus, airports is easily arranged. From April through November, Millay Arts invites 6-7 multidisciplinary artists for month-long stays at Steepletop, the historic estate of poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay. (We also have two-week residencies in June and September and a residency for collectives (3-7 participants) in December.) Palette Poetry: Love & Eros Prize Deadline: 19th October 2021 We’re delighted to offer the... Read Moreread more.
IWC Evolution Programme Awardees 2021
September 28, 2021 5:50 pm Comments Off on IWC Evolution Programme Awardees 2021
‘It was a dream come true of about ten years in the making’ – Kealan Ryan on his Novel Fair journey
September 22, 2021 10:51 am Leave your thoughtsKealan Ryan is a novelist, actor and filmmaker. His debut novel, The Middle Place, was published by Mercier Press (2019) and was a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2015. He wrote, produced and stared in Amazon Prime’s award-winning feature film LIFT (2018). He has also written for the Irish Times and has had work published by the O’Brien Press. His film, The Anderson Corporation Will Change Your Life, was a Grand Prix Irish Short Selection at the 65th Cork International Film Festival (2020). He is currently in-development of his next feature film, Through the Silent Lands. Could you tell us a bit about yourself? I worked in various jobs for a number of years before finally deciding in my 30’s to pursue a career in writing and acting. I started working on my novel, The Middle Place, as... Read Moreread more.
Gavin Corbett, Cauvery Madhavan and Neil Hegarty Announced as the Novel Fair 2022 Judges
September 14, 2021 2:26 pm Leave your thoughtsGavin Corbett, Cauvery Madhavan and Neil Hegarty Announced as the Novel Fair 2022 Judges We are delighted to announce the judges of Novel Fair 2022. Gavin Corbett, Cauvery Madhavan and Neil Hegarty are set to judge the international writing competition this year. Novel Fair offers unpublished writers the chance to pitch their manuscripts directly to top publishers and agents from across Ireland and the UK. The Novel Fair judges will sift through entries from all over the world to select 12 finalists to take part in what has been described as a ‘Dragon’s Den for writers’. Each of the Novel Fair judges will bring a wealth of experience in the literary world to the Fair. Gavin Corbett is the author of three novels: Innocence (2003), This Is the Way (2013) and Green Glowing Skull (2015). This Is the Way was named 2013 Kerry Group Irish Novel of... Read Moreread more.
Cill Rialaig Residency 2021 Awardees
September 15, 2021 9:36 am Leave your thoughtsWe’re delighted to announce the 7 awardees of our Cill Rialaig Residencies 2021. We received many applications of a very high standard this year, all of which were reviewed and finalists selected by judges David Butler and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. Michelle Gallen was born in Northern Ireland in the mid-1970s and grew up during the Troubles a few miles from the border between what she was told was the “Free” State and the “United” Kingdom. She studied English literature at Trinity College Dublin, then survived what doctors now suspect was autoimmune encephalitis in her mid-twenties. Her debut novel, Big Girl, Small Town was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. She now lives in Dublin with her husband and kids. A.M. Cousins is a Wexford based writer. She published her debut collection of poetry – REDRESS (Revival Press) – in 2021. She also... Read Moreread more.
