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googleThe troubled Google Book Settlement has received another setback. This time from the United States Department of Justice. The Department has advised the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that class certification, copyright and antitrust issues remain, despite the substantial progress reflected in a proposed amended settlement agreement in The Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc. more

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Money and crystal in Cavan

In addition to cash prizes the winners of the Cavan Crystal/Windows Publications 18th National Student & Adult Poetry Competition will be presented with a Cavan Crystal goblet sponsored by Cavan Crystal Design. First prize for each of the student categories is €100. The adult category first prize is €500. more

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Over The Edge writing

The 2010 Over The Edge competition is open to both poets and fiction writers.
Total prize money is €1,000. The best fiction entry will win €300. The best poetry entry will win €300. One will be chosen as the overall winner and receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner total prize money of €700. more

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Wordlegs seeks material

Wordlegs is a quarterly online journal for Irish writers. It is currently seeking submissions of short stories, flash fiction and other literary forms. Writers should be from or living in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. All manuscripts must be previously unpublished. more

PLR rate announced

Payments to authors continue for the public borrowings of their books under the new Irish PLR system. The Rate Per Loan for PLR Year 2009 is 13.93 cent. Authors who chose Euro cheque will receive a cheque and a statement in the post in February 2010. more

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Brit Writers' Awards

The Brit Writers’ Awards is accepting entries in a number of categories. Poetry category for adults: collection of five entries. Poetry category for children: collection of three entries. The competition is open to all British citizens worldwide and people resident in the UK who are aged five years or more. The overall winner will receive £10,000. more


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Money for Irish writerscash

Irish writers may apply for funding from Galway County Council or from Sligo County Council. This fund provides funding to individual artists including workers in literature. more

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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 online, from the following Monday after 7pm.
Programme thirty-three features an interview with writer Clare Mulvany.The story of The Smoking Momma is told by Brendan Nolan.
Posted in MP3, so broadband access is required to access the 17mb file. It takes a few seconds to buffer and download. Please be patient... It's worth the wait.

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