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Summer Poetry Course At Munster Literature Centre


  
MLC Artistic Director Patrick Cotter will deliver a poetry workshop every Saturday for six weeks beginning July 8th.

Patrick has published several books and chapbooks, edited many anthologies and guest-edited for journals such  as Poetry (USA) Riddle Fence (Canada) and Shanghai Writer. His own poems have been published/ about to appear in London Review of Books, the Financial Times, Irish Times, Poetry Review, Poetry and many other places. He has been a finalist for many poetry prizes and was the first Irish poet to win the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize.

The course is limited to ten participants and will focus on generating ideas, revision and generally upping your game. Classes will be from 11am to 1pm. Course cost is €100.

For full prospectus go here


 

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Fool for Poetry Competition One Week to Go.



The reputation of the Fool for Poetry pamphlet/chapbook competition has grown in strength in recent years, having published poets from Ireland, the UK and the USA. One of last year's winners, The Bees Have Been Canceled by New Yorker Maya Catherine Popa, has been selected as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice this Summer. A previous winner White Whale by Irish poet Victoria Kennefick, went on to earn the best poetry pamphlet accolade from UK's Saboteur. The overall winner of the Fool for Poetry competition receives €1000, second place receives €500. Both chapbooks will be published and launched at the Cork International Poetry Festival (February 14th to 17th, 2018). The winners will receive fifty complementary copies. If they choose to come to Cork for the festival they will receive hotel accommodation with full meals and a chance to read from their prizewinning title. At least one of the winners must be a debutant with no previous poetry book or chapbook published. A shortlist of up a dozen entries is selected by MLC artistic director and poet Patrick Cotter. The winners are chosen from points awarded each manuscript by former and current poetry editors of Southword, James Harpur, Thomas McCarthy, Mary Noonan, Leanne O'Sullivan and Matthew Sweeney.  Details on entry here. Deadline June 30th.


Southword Editions chapbooks/ poetry pamphlets can be purchased here.




Recipients of Frank O'Connor Mentorship Bursaries Chosen.  




The Munster Literature Centre is delighted to be announce that the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellow, Marie-Helene Bertino has chosen the recipients of the 2017 Frank O'Connor Mentorship Bursaries.

The buraries amount to tuition-free mentorship by Ms. Bertino, wholly funded by Cork City Council and are an initiative of the Munster Literature Centre

Susan Burke-Trehy is a novelist resident in Cork City who has published fiction in a number of journals, including Long Story Short and Ropes. Ms. Bertino will work with Susan on a crime novel.

Anne O'Leary is a short story writer based in Glanmire, Co. Cork. Anne has had stories highly commended in various competitions and has published in journals such as Halo Literary Magazine and The Incubator.

Words Ireland will be offering its own series of mentorships on a national basis in the coming year. Keep up to date with news of Words Ireland here. The Words Ireland website is also a source for factsheets useful to writers in Ireland on subjects such as tax, contracts and what to expect when invited to a festival.








 
Cork City International Short Story Festival


Will take place from Wednesday September 13th to Saturday September 16th at the Firkin Crane, Shandon, Cork. Among the writers participating this year are Carlo Geblar, Alan McMonagle, David Means, Claire Keegan, Bret Anthony Johnston, Nuala O'Connor, Kanishk Tharoor and many more. There will also be featured events programmed by Fiction at the Friary, Banshee literary journal, Long Story Short and readings from the annual anthology From the Well.  


Sean O'Faolain Short Story Competition 
Now Accepting Entries


Entries are being accepted once again for this year's competition. Danielle McLaughlin's choice of last year's winning stories can be read here. Danielle has completed her stint as editor and we thank her for all her dedicated and astute work. Cork novelist and short story writer Billy O'Callaghan is guest editing our next issue, due late Summer. The judge for this year's Sean O'Faolain competition is Northern Irish novelist Paul McVeigh. The winner receives €2000, accommodation and meals at the Cork International Short Story Festival September 13  th to 16th, a week's residency at Anam Cara artists' retreat and a travel subvention (up to €600) if they agree to come to the festival and read their prize-winning story. The story also gets to be published in Southword. Details on how to enter are here. Deadline July 31
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