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Creative Writing Competition in Galway

The Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2008 competition is open to both poets and fiction writers.

The winner will receive a cash prize of €600, a spot as a featured reader at an Over The Edge: Open Reading, in Galway and the title Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2008.

The runner-up will receive a cash prize of €300, while the third-placed writer will receive €100.

Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the Year competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland with an accompanying SAE.

The author’s identity or contact details must not appear on any poem but be supplied on a separate cover sheet.

Eligible will be: fiction of up to 3,000 words, three poems of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines. All entries must be typed.

Multiple entries are acceptable but each entry must be accompanied by a €15 fee and an SAE.

Entrants must be at least sixteen years old by August 1, 2008 and not have a book published or accepted for publication, chapbooks excepted.

Poems and stories entered in the competition must not have been previously published.

Closing date is August 1, 2008.

For detail, see the website

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