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Galway County Council Arts Office invites applications for its 2008 Artist Bursary Awards. Qualifying artists must be resident in Galway County. more oOo Sharp writers for TV
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Kyle
Minogue has become a knight in the French Order of Arts and Letters.
She said: “I am deeply honoured to be recognised in this way.
French culture has influenced me greatly and I have always had colossal
respect for the arts and people of France”. 
Some
£5,000 in prize money is on offer in the National Poetry
Competition. Entrants must be aged more than 17 years. Entry
fee is £5 for the first poem then £3 for each
subsequent entry. The winner will read at the Ledbury Poetry
Festival 2009. 
If
a winning band breaks up before a showcase of winners, the
song will be disqualified unless the band can work together
or it is clear who the songwriter is. Make It Break It is
a songwriting and enterprise scheme for 14 to 19-year-olds
aimed at uncovering fresh creative talent. 
Bursaries
available in Galway
Meath
County Council Library Service is accepting entries to its 6th
Annual Éist Poetry Competition. Prizewinners will be awarded
places on a one-day poetry writing seminar with a practicing poet.
Maximum length 40 lines. No entry fee. 
Submissions
for issue 8 of Revival are being read.
In
Dublin, the New Writers Forum Group has invited writers to an
open mic session in the Irish Writers' Centre on May 9, from 7pm.
Writers are invited to read their own work of poetry, prose, short
stories, novel extracts and so on. 
Writing Club News
The
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her short story: Journey. See here
Our current writing competition is for a poem on any theme to a maximum
of 40 lines. see here
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