Competitions and Events

CREATIVE WRITING INK FREE TO ENTER MONTHLY COMPETITIONS.   For full details on our Creative Writing Ink free to enter monthly short story and poetry competitions, please click here.

Creative Writing Ink April Competition winners

Congratulations to Samuel Dodson, Warwick, England and to Bern Butler, Galway, Ireland who are the winners of our April short story and poetry competitions. You can read the winning entries over at http://creativewriting.ie/creative-writing-ink-journal-2/

Creative Writing Ink March Competition Winners

Congratulations to Joan Skura who is the winner of our March short story competition for her story “What Goes Around” and to Marie Munnelly who is the winner of our March poetry competition for her poem,”Love for a Sister.”

You can read the winning entries on our Creative Writing Ink journal page at http://creativewriting.ie/creative-writing-ink-journal-2/

Creative Writing Ink February Competition Winners

Congratulations to Rose Kelland, Suffolk, United Kingdom who is the winner of our February poetry competition for her poem “My Senses, My Memories” and to David O’Connor, Co. Dublin who is the winner of our February short story competition for his story,”Admiral Knightsky.”

Nora Hegarty, Co. Waterford, Ireland is the winner of our quarterly competition for her story, “The Christmas Cake.” You can read the winning entries over at http://creativewriting.ie/creative-writing-ink-journal-2/

Creative Writing Ink Competition Winners

Congratulations to Cynthia Allen who is the winner of our January short story competition for her poem ”Behind the Lace” and to Peter Branson who is the winner of our January poetry competition for his poem,”Safety First.” You can read Cynthia’s story and previous winning entries at http://creativewriting.ie/creative-writing-ink-journal-2/

Creative Writing Ink Competition Winners

Thanks again to everyone who entered our December writing competition. Congratulations to Jonathan Cooper, Sheffield, United Kingdom who is the winner of our December poetry competition for his poem ”Windy Day” and to Rose Kelland, Suffolk, United Kingdom who is the winner of our short story competition for her story,”Jessie” You can read more over at http://creativewriting.ie/creative-writing-ink-journal-2/

November Poetry and Short Story Competition Winners

Congratulations to C.R. Redd and Nora Hegarty who are the winners of our November poetry and short story competitions. You can read both winning entries over at http://bit.ly/nGvMC0

Bristol Short Story Prize

Bristol Short Story Prize

The 2011 Bristol Short Story Prize is now open. The competition is open to non-UK as well as UK residents. Stories can be submitted online or by post. For more information, visit their website

The closing date for entries is 31st March 2012. Stories can be on any theme or subject and the entry fee is £7 per story.

Prizes:
1st £1000 plus £150 Waterstone’s gift card
2nd £700 plus £100 Waterstone’s gift card
3rd £400 plus £100 Waterstone’s gift card
17 further prizes of £100 will be presented to the writers whose stories appear on the shortlist. All 20 shortlisted writers will have their stories published in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 5. The winning story will, also, be published in Bristol Review of Books and Venue magazine.

Creative Writing Ink Quarterly Competition Winner

Congratulations to Amanda Bowden who is the winner of our August-October 2011 quarterly competition! You read Amanda’s short story “Papier Mache Doll” at http://creativewriting.ie/creative-writing-ink-journal-2/

Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize

Entries are invited for this competition, with successful poems featured in the Spring Issue of The Moth. Further information at http://www.themothmagazine.com/ – deadline for entries is December 31st. First Prize; €2,000; Second Prize; €1,000; Third Prize; €500. The entry fee is €6 (or €7.50 if you’re paying by money or postal order) The prize will be judged by Matthew Sweeney, whose last collection, Black Moon, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Irish Times/Poetry Now Award. His selected works, The Night Post, was published in 2010.

William Saroyan International Prize

September Short Story & Poetry Competition Winners

The winners of our September short story and poetry competitions are listed below. Congratulations to Susan and Henry!

September Poetry Competition Winner

Susan Morgan, Newry, Northern Ireland – “Guzelyurt”

September Short Story Competition Winner

Henry St.Leger-Davey, Winchester, England

I went to the beach today

I start to feel uncomfortable, sitting here still. Her damp cheeks make me want to stand up; push the world over; dismiss it; throw it away; reject it; tell it something must be wrong with it; tell it that it’s failing; make it see that its purpose, whether it doesn’t include her or me (or is one of those ‘the point is there’s no point’ so-zen-it’s-crazy mentalities), can’t possibly be doing its job right when she, she is sitting here at the edge of this wooden platform with her frame collapsing into her stomach and her sobs sinking ever deeper into her chest with each rush of salt sliding down the bridge of her nose, manoeuvring over and around the resigned freckles in its path, palely dotted like the careless afterthought of a painter flicking the last specks of orange off his brush. The way they rest on her, parallel to the curved hoods of her eyes, reminds me of the faint caresses prodded into the sand by the first dozen drops of February rain (who goes to the beach in February?).

Continue reading I went to the beach today

Creative Writing Ink August Competition Winners

Congratulations to Amanda Bowden, Bristol England who is the winner of our August short story competition, for her story, “Papier Mache Doll.” And to Annie Lang, Sheffield, England, the winner of our August poetry competition for her poem, “The Midnight Poet.”

You can read the winning entries on our Creative Writing Ink Journal page at http://creativewriting.ie/creative-writing-ink-journal-2

Quarterly Competition Winner

Congratulations to Vesna McMaster, of Merewether Heights, NSW, Australia who is the winner of our quarterly competition. You can read Vesna’s winning entry over at our Creative Writing Ink Journal page.

Creative Writing Ink July Competition Winners

Congratulations to C.R. Redd, North Somerset England who is the winner of our July short story competition for the story ”The White Hart” and to Henry St. Leger-Davey, of Winchester, England who is the winner of our July poetry competition for his poem,”Just not as they ought to be.”

We will release details of the winner of our quarterly competition in our next newsletter.

In the meantime, you can read the winning entries on our Writers Resources page at http://creativewriting.ie/creative-writing-ink-journal-2/

The Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook Short Story Competition 2012

The Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook Short Story Competition 2012
Deadline: Tue 14 Feb 2012
For published and aspiring writers alike – enter the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2012 short story competition.
You could win:
• a cash prize of £500
• a place on an Arvon Foundation residential writing course of your choice
• publication of your story on the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook website
To be in with a chance of winning, write a short story (for adults) of no more than 2,000 words on the theme of ‘identity’.
For full details visit www.writersandartists.co.uk