Prizes: £1,000 first, £500 second, £250 third (approx. $1,290, $645, $325)
Deadline: November 30, 2017
Entry fee: £7 / $9 / €9
Judge: Shasta Grant
Enter here
Blog of Adam Trodd. Winner of Benedict Kiely Short Story Award and Book of Kells Creative Competition
Tuesday 31 October 2017
Saturday 28 October 2017
Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition at Omagh Literary Festival
I attended the 16th Omagh Literary Festival over the weekend to read my winning story, Eden is Burning, at the inaugural Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition event at the Strule Arts Centre (Strule Hoose o' Airts). Omagh is the county town Tyrone and it sits on the Strule River which was heavy and brown with autumn rain when I visited. Benedict Kiely, after whom the competition is named was born near Dromore in 1919, not far from Omagh and would go on to become one of Ireland's most prolific writers and broadcasters. I was honoured to come first in the competition and very grateful to head judge Carlo Gébler for deeming my story worthy of the win.
The great Ben Kiely |
LtoR: Carlo Gébler, Frances Kiely, Adam Trodd |
Saturday 14 October 2017
Poetry Jukebox - Changing the Message
The Poetry Jukebox |
Crescent Arts Centre |
Me, reading at the launch |
Joan Newman
Michael Longley
Eavan Boland
Celia de Fréine
Stephen Sexton
Mark Granier
Paula Meehan
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Katie Donovan
Padraic Flacc
Mary Montague
Adam Trodd
Adrian Fox read by Matthew Price
Nessa O'Mahony
David Brazíel
Seanín Hughes
Olive Broderick
Eamon McGuinness
Afric McGlinchey
Glen Wilson
Tuesday 3 October 2017
Banshee - Open for Submissions in October
Banshee is a relatively new but increasingly well regarded Irish literary magazine that publishes poetry, short stories, flash fiction and essays. The editors are Laura Jane Cassidy, Claire Hennessy and Eimear Ryan. Open for submissions during the month of October. Full details here.
A flash fiction of mine, Ophelia, was published in Issue 3.
I also interviewed the editors for Bath Flash Fiction, read it here.
A flash fiction of mine, Ophelia, was published in Issue 3.
I also interviewed the editors for Bath Flash Fiction, read it here.
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