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Over The Edge writer

The Over The Edge New Writer of the Year 2009 is open to both poets and fiction writers.

Total prize money is €1,000.

Best fiction entry will win €300.

Best poetry entry will win €300.

One will be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400, giving the author total prize money of €700 and the title.

Fiction of up to 3,000 words, three poems of up to 40 lines, or one poem of up to 100 lines.
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.

Entrants must be at least 16 years old by September 1, 2009 and not have a book published or accepted for publication in that genre. Chapbooks excepted.

Entries must not have been previously published or be currently entered in any other competition.

Post entries 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 entry but be supplied on a separate cover sheet.

Closing date for entries is August 3, 2009.

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