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Pint-sized Plays are to be filled again

pint posterThe 2012 Pint-sized Plays international writing competition for short plays is open for entries.
The winner receives a Pint-Pot award - with a Half-Pint award given to the runner up.
Selected plays will be considered for possible performance in the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe festivals and be recorded and broadcast as radio plays on an internet radio station.
Such plays last for five or ten minutes each.
The play can be funny, it can be poignant, so long as it can be performed in a pub, with two or three characters.
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what the dickensDickens story competition encourages new writers

A writing competition celebrating the Dickens bicentenary offers guidance to youngsters on how to begin the work of a writer. The competition is open to primary and secondary school children in the UK who are aged between 9 and 14 years. Prizes include a Kindle ebook reader loaded with selected book titles, or Amazon vouchers worth £100 or £50, plus prizes for schools, including a visit from an author. more

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flowersDavid Burland poetry prize

Entries will be accepted for the David Burland poetry prize from writers of any nationality and from any country provided that they are written in the English or French Language and the writer is aged more than 18 years. Prizes: £500, £100 or £30. Entry fees are: £8 for a first poem and £4 for additional poems. Submissions may be on any subject and written in free style or rhyme. more


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From The Well - Short Story Competition 2012

bucketCork County Library and Arts Service is accepting entries to its 2012 From The Well Short Story competition. The winning prize will be a place on a week-long writing workshop at the West Cork Literary festival 2012, in Bantry, Co Cork. The competition is open to people aged 18 years or more who are registered library members. Stories must be fictional; but may be on any subject; but must not be more than 2,000 words. No handwritten entries will be accepted. more






pen Poetry consultant offers newsletter to interested parties

Recently appointed Poetry Consultant for the MA in Poetry Studies at Mater Dei Institute in Dublin Dave Lordan has announced he will distribute a regular newsletter on his progress. His brief is to develop practice-based resources for the teaching of the reading, writing and performing of poetry/creative writing in schools, and in community education more generally, said Lordan. more

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The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation

Competitors for the Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation may translate a poem from any language, classical or modern, into English as their entry. Three prizes are offered in the Open and 18-and-under categories. Winners of the Open prizes will receive £1000, £750, or £500. Each entry must comprise: the translation, the original poem, the translator's commentary. more


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Write a story and win €100

The current CheerReader quarterly competition offers a prize of €100.
Maximum length for stories is 1,500 words. The theme may be on anything you like, so long as it makes people laugh. Entrants must be aged 18 years or more.
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Telling Tales on the radioradio man
The resources of askaboutwriting are used in the compilation of Telling Tales the radio show broadcast on Saturday at 1.30pm. listen live

A fresh tale is broadcast each week on WDAR 96FM; or, you can listen to the archived shows online.

Programme 108 features writer Laurence O'Bryan on his book The Istanbul Prize. The Grimm's story of Thumbling is recalled by Brendan Nolan.

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