last update: 1 june 2008

Prize

€1,500

Adjudicator

Writers' Week Editorial Board

Sponsor

Prison Education Service and The Irish Commission for Prisoners Overseas.

Winners

Short Story

 

1st John Mould
(Arbour Hill Prison)
2nd John Kerr
(Maghaberry Prison)
3rd Stephen Scott
(Maghaberry Prison)

 
 

Autobiography

 

1st John Kerr
(Maghaberry Prison)
2nd Eoghan O’h-Aoife
(Midlands Prison)
3rd John Coughlan
(Midlands Prison)
 
 

Poetry

 

1st Joe Mooney
(Portlaoise Prison)
2nd Francis Condra
(Arbour Hill)
3rd Archie McIlhatton
(HMP Whitemoor, UK)
 
 

Poetry (overseas)

 

Garry Doggett
(Maison d’Arret-Frenes, France)
 

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 "Writing in Prisons".

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:

Writing in Prisons Competition
Writers Week Limited,
24 The Square
Listowel
Kerry
Ireland

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