last update: 28 may 2008
 

Dedicated to the memory of Joni Costelloe

Winner

Georgina Eddison

Prize

€700 + financial support towards the publication of a Slim Volume to be launched at next year's festival.

 

Categories

collection of poems
(6 - 12 individual poems OR an equivalent longer single work which may be in sections or in the form of a sequence)

This competition is open only to those who have not yet published a complete book of poems. (Individual pieces may have received prior publication but not previously received an award).

 

Adjudicator

Rita Anne Higgins

Sponsor

Tim Costelloe, Profile Developments

Entry Fee

€25
with each collection submitted

 

Rules

1. An entry form is NOT required for this competition.

2. Entries must not have been previously published.

3. Entries must be typed.

4. Entries will NOT be returned.

5. No indication of entrant's identity may appear on the competition entry. (Please submit your name and address details on a seperate sheet).

6. Entries must be in Irish or in English/Is féidir iontrálacha a bheith i mBéarla nó i nGaeilge.

7. Please identify the category of Entry as "Collection of Poems Competition ".

8. An unlimited number of entries may be submitted for this competition.

9. The Adjudicator's verdict is final.

10. Winners ONLY will be notified.

11. No correspondence shall be entered into regarding competition entries.

12. Awards may not be presented where an appropriate standard is not achieved.

13. Writers' Week reserves the right to withhold or publish winning entries in the publication "Winners Anthology".

 

Submit entries to:

Collection of Poems Competition,
Writers Week Limited,
24 The Square
Listowel
Kerry
Ireland

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