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Niamh Sharkey is Ireland's second-ever Laureate
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City of Norwich has become the latest UNESCO City of Literature,
joining an elite international network of Dublin, Edinburgh, Melbourne,
Iowa City, and Reykjavik. The City of Literature status is designated
through UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network to harness the
creativity of cities by sharing ideas and best practice for artistic,
social and economic development through culture. more oOo Write What’s your History to win a competition
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The winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award will receive £30,000, while the prize money for up to five other shortlisted authors is £10,000 each. Now in its eighth year, the award is established as a feature of the business and publishing calendars. Eligible categories include economics, management, business and finance. more |
Niamh
Sharkey is Laureate na nÓg 
Entries
are being accepted to the summer Meridian writing competition.
Prizes are £100, £50 or £25 plus a firstwriter.com
voucher. No theme is set for entries, so write on what you
will. Maximum word count is 3,000 for this competition. 
Journalists
across Europe could earn payment once more for their work.
Fundsforngos.org is an online initiative, working for the
sustainability of NGOs by increasing their access to donors,
resources, and skills, according to an online declaration.
A €5,000 award is made once a year to a winner. Articles
for consideration should have been published in the period
from August 1, 2011 to July 31, 2012. 
Student
writers could win £1,000, and a trip to the Norman Mailer
Writer's Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts and the chance
to have work published in British GQ.
Norwich
is sixth UNESCO City of Literature 
Holland
Park Press is accepting submissions to its poetry writing competition.
The competition invites poems in English or Dutch. Entrants are
invited to write about their personal history using the literary
form to say something more, and which is not just about self,
said the promoters.
Business
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