William Trevor International Short Story Competition 2007
October 16, 2007
The organising committee of the above competition is pleased to announce that entries are now being accepted for the William Trevor Short Story Competition 2007.
Now in its second year, there was an excellent response to the first year’s competition with entries having been received from Australia, England, India, Italy, Scotland, Singapore and U.S.A. as well as from nearly every county in Ireland.
“This is an ideal opportunity for creative writers to have the standard of their literary efforts appraised as the short list will be adjudicated by William Trevor, the greatest living exponent of the art of short story writingâ€, said Liam Cusack, the Chairperson of the organising committee. “ I suppose competition, in any facet of life, is the act of testing oneself against, or being judged by,the best and in this competition that tenet certainly holds trueâ€, he added.
Each story should contain a maximum of 3000 words and should be submitted, by post only, on or before Friday 30th November 2007. The winner will receive the Cork County Council Library Services Prize of €2,500 and a Laptop Computer sponsored by The Mouse Pad, Mitchelstown. Five runners up will receive cash prizes of €200.00 each. There is an entry fee of €20.00 per entry and each entry must have an official entry form attached.
All competition details can be found at www.williamtrevorshortstory.com from where a copy of the official entry form can also be downloaded.
For further information contact:
Liam Cusack
37 Upper Cork Street,
Mitchelstown,
County Cork,
Ireland.
025/84918.
info@williamtrevorshortstory.com
Poetry Competition
September 6, 2007
For Immediate Release
 ‘To Be A Man’
Kwani Trust in partnership with Ford Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a poetry competition on the subject ‘To Be A Man’. This is to encourage the emergence of nuanced and contemporary poetry that asks questions about masculinity and gender in a changing world.
The competition offers a top prize of USD 1000 and USD 500 and USD 300 for 2nd and 3rd places respectively and the opportunity to perform during Ford Foundation’s Masculinity conference at the Godown Arts Centre in November 2007.
Poets are only be allowed up to three entries to be sent to poetry@kwani.org clearly titled ’To Be A Man’ Poetry Competition in the ‘Subject’ field. Poems should not exceed 500 words. The competition closes at midnight on Monday October 15th.
