2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition
OPEN TO POETS FICTION WRITERS WORLDWIDE
NOW TAKING ONLINE PAYMENTS
COMPETITION JUDGE: ELEANOR HOOKER
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Closing date: Wednesday, August 6th,
2014
STILL TAKING ENTRIES
UNTIL MIDNIGHT
If you make
your payment online before midnight on August 6th, we will accept your
entry. And we will accept all entries postmarked August 6th or earlier,
even if they arrive after that date. Extracts from novels absolutely accepted. As well, of course, as short stories and poems.
In 2014 Over The Edge is continuing its exciting annual international
creative writing competition. Since its inception in 2007, it has grown to
become one of the most important competition’s for emerging writers in Ireland
and internationally. The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers
worldwide. The total prize money is €1,000. The best fiction entry will
win €300. The best poetry entry will win €300. One of these will
then be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400,
giving the overall winner total prize money of €700 and the title Over
The Edge New Writer of The Year 2014. The 2014 Over The Edge New Writer
of The Year will be a Featured Reader at Ireland’s leading literary reading series, the Over The Edge: Open
Readings in Galway City Library, on a date to be scheduled in Winter 2014/15. Salmon Poetry will read, without
commitment to publish, a manuscript submitted to them by the winner in the poetry category. Doire Press will read, without commitment to publish, a manuscript
of short stories submitted to them by the
winner in the fiction category. The overall winner will receive a hamper of
books from the famous Kenny’s Bookshop
of Galway, Ireland. The winner
in the poetry category will have one of the poems from her or his winning entry
published in the January 2015 issue of Skylight47 magazine.
Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the Year
competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland. Entries will be
judged anonymously, so do not put your name on your poem(s) or stories. Put
your contact details on a separate sheet. If you live in Ireland and wish to be
informed of the results by post, please enclose a stamped addressed envelope.
OTHERWISE, YOU DO NOT NEED TO ENCLOSE A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE. Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines. Any of the aforementioned is one entry. Multiple entries are acceptable but each must be accompanied by a fee.
The fee for one entry is €10. The fee for multiple entries is €7.50 per entry e.g. two entries will cost €15, three entries €22.50 and so on. Fee payable by cheque or money order to Over The Edge. The competition is open to writers worldwide. We accept payment in Dollars, Sterling, Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars and so on. Writers from outside the Euro area can calculate the payment for their entry here http://www.xe.com/ucc/ WE ALSO NOW ACCEPT ONLINE PAYMENTS. See the below for details. If you pay the entry fee online you must still post us a hard copy of your entry/entries and enclose with it a note saying ‘entry fee paid online’. PLEASE INCLUDE THE EXACT NAME IN WHICH THE ONLINE PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE SO THAT WE CAN VERIFY.
To take part you must be at least sixteen years old by September 1st
2014 and not have a book published or accepted for publication in the genre in which you enter. Chapbooks/
pamphlets excepted. Entries must not have been previously published or be
currently entered in any other competition. The closing date is Wednesday,
August 6th, 2014. A long-list will be
announced at the August Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 28th, 2014 (6.30-8pm).
THE LONGLIST WILL BE AVAILABLE, BEFORE THAT, AT CHARLIE BYRNE’S BOOKSHOP FROM
5PM ON THURSDAY AUGUST 28TH.
The shortlist will be
announced at the September Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library
on Thursday, September 25th,
2014 (6.30-8pm). The winners
will be announced at the October Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City
Library on Thursday, October 30th,
2014 (6.30-8pm).
Eleanor
Hooker lives in North Tipperary. Her debut collection of poems The Shadow Owner's Companion, published by TheDedalus Press in 2012, has recently been shortlisted for the Strong/Shine award
for best first collection in 2012. Her poetry has been published in Poetry
Ireland Review, The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, The
SHOp, Crannog, Can Can, Agenda, POEM:
International English Language Quarterly, New Leaf, and in
the anthology I Live In Michael Hartnett. Online her poetry has
been published in Wordlegs, And Other Poems, Ink
Sweat and Tears and Poethead. In June 2013 Eleanor won the Poetry Ireland/Trocaire poetry competition (Published Author Category).
In 2011 she
was a winner in the Frank X Buckley Flash Short Story competition at the Irish
Writers' Centre, was joint second prize winner in the William Trevor/Elizabeth
Bowen International Short Story competition. In December 2012
she was a winner in the ten word short story competition held by @shortstoryday. Eleanor has a BA
(Hons 1st) from the Open University, an MA (Hons.) in Cultural History from the
University of Northumbria, and an MPhil in Creative Writing (Distinction) from
Trinity College, Dublin. She was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions
Series in 2011. She is the Vice-Chairperson of the Dromineer Literary
Festival. She is Helm and Press Officer for Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat.
For further details contact Over The Edge on 087-6431748,
For further details contact Over The Edge on 087-6431748,
or e-mail over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com
If you make your payment online before midnight on August 6th, we will accept your entry. And we will accept all entries postmarked August 6th or earlier, even if they arrive after that date. Extracts from novels absolutely accepted. As well, of course, as short stories and poems.
If you make your payment online before midnight on August 6th, we will accept your entry. And we will accept all entries postmarked August 6th or earlier, even if they arrive after that date. Extracts from novels absolutely accepted. As well, of course, as short stories and poems.
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