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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: The Bournemouth Writing Prize 2025
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \nThe Bournemouth Writing Prize\nCelebrating 10 Years of Outstanding Writing\nSubmissions open April 2025 for the Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Bournemouth Writing Prize. This year\, we’re celebrating a decade of discovering original writing\, and we’d love to read yours. \nSubmit one story\, up to 3\,000 words. \nAll submissions close: 15th of August. \n  \nTo enter: \nSubmit – The Bournemouth Journal
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-the-bournemouth-writing-prize-2025/
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SUMMARY:Event: An Evening with Rose Keating at West Kirby Bookshop
DESCRIPTION:Rose Keating celebrates the publication of her much anticipated debut short story collection\, Oddbody. Rose will be reading from the collection\, before being in conversation with Jordan from the bookshop\, answering questions from the audience and signing copies of Oddbody.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/event-an-evening-with-rose-keating-at-west-kirby-bookshop/
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Aurora Prize for Writing 2025
DESCRIPTION:From the competition’s website: \n  \nSince 2016\, Aurora has provided a platform for writers\, offering a prize that is truly national (and international) with its heart in the East Midlands. \nOur judges have included some of the region’s leading literary lights\, with names such as Joanna Cannon\, Casey Bailey\, Mahsuda Snaith\, Alison Moore\, Jon McGregor\, Malika Booker\, Helen Mort\, Debris Stevenson\, Shreya Sen-Handley and Georgina Wilding. \nWe are thrilled to announce that this year’s judges include T.S. Eliot Prize winner Joelle Taylor\, reading poetry\, and multi-award-winning author Irenosen Okojie\, judging prose. \nAs well as receiving a cash prize\, winners receive feedback on a piece of work of their choice from a matched literary agent or editor. \nWe receive hundreds of entries each year\, with the best 25 in each category making it to a published longlist and the best 10 in each category on published shortlists. \nThe writing competition also offers prizes for second and third places in each category\, plus prizes for the best work from the East Midlands region \nThe winners of the writing competition\, in each category\, will receive a cash prize of £500\, feedback on a piece of work of their choice from a leading literary agent (or Editor as appropriate) and a years free membership to the Society of Authors\, which includes access to advice and resources on all aspects of the business of writing. \nWinners will also receive a session with Society of Authors staff\, including an introduction to how the Society can support them in their careers as professional authors and covering essential advice on copyright\, payment terms and contracts. \nSecond Prize £150 cash. \nThird Prize A ticket to the 2027 Writers’ Conference\, hosted by Writing East Midlands. \nAs a champion of writers from the East Midlands\, we will also offer a regional prize of £100 to the best work in each category from the region. \nIn the weeks leading up to the Aurora Prize Awards Ceremony (details TBC) we will also be publishing a longlist of 25 in each category and a shortlist of 10 in each category on our website. The shortlist of 10 will also receive a 20% discount code for one year’s membership with the Society of Authors. \nThe submission fee is £9 for a first entry and £7 for each additional entry. \nThis is a national writing competition open to everyone. International entries are also welcome. \n  \nTo enter: \nhttps://writingeastmidlands.co.uk/for-writers/aurora-prize-for-writing/
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-aurora-prize-for-writing-2025/
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Sean O Faolain International Short Story Competition
DESCRIPTION:From the competition website: \n  \n\n\nSeán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition \nOpen for entries 1 May – 31 July \n\n\nWord limit: 3\,000\nClosing date: 31st July (midnight)\nEntry fee: €19 per story \nThe competition is open to original\, unpublished and unbroadcast short stories in the English language of 3\,000 words or fewer. The story can be on any subject\, in any style\, by a writer of any nationality\, living anywhere in the world. Translated work is not in the scope of this competition. Entrants may submit more than one entry. Once entered\, no alterations can be made to the submission. Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please notify us immediately should your work be accepted elsewhere. \nTo enter: \nSeán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition – Munster Literature Centre
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-sean-o-faolain-international-short-story-competition/
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SUMMARY:Competition Deadline: Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2025
DESCRIPTION:From the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize website: \n  \nWe’re looking for new and original fiction under 3\,500 words. \nStories can be any length (up to 3\,500 words) style\, or subject. There is no set theme. \n£7 per story. Max three entries per person. \nPRIZES\n1st Prize   – £200 \n2nd Prize – £125 \n3rd Prize – £75 \nA longlist of a maximum of 20 stories will be published in an anthology and all authors receive a complimentary copy. A shortlist and overall winners will be selected by our esteemed judging panel. \nDeadline:  23:59 on 31 July 2025. \n  \nFollow the link to enter: \nLeicester Writes Short Story Prize
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/competition-deadline-leicester-writes-short-story-prize-2025/
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SUMMARY:Residency: Muinntireas do Sgrìobhaiche Gàidhlig Òg – Young Gaelic Writer Residency 2025
DESCRIPTION:Tha Pàirc na Camais agus Comhairle nan Leabhraichean toilichte a ràdh gu bheil gairm fhosgailte ann airson tagraidhean Muinntireas do Sgrìobhaiche Gàidhlig Òg! \nIs e muinntireas làn-mhaoinichte do sgrìobhadairean Gàidhlig eadar 18 agus 30 a th’ anns a’ Mhuinntireas do Sgrìobhaiche Gàidhlig Òg\, a thathas a’ tabhann airson an treasamh turas. Bidh am muinntireas dà-sheachdain seo a’ tachairt eadar Diluain 27 Dàmhair agus Diluain 10 Samhain 2025\, agus gheibh an sgrìobhadair air mhuinntireas tuarastal agus cuibhreann siubhail is rannsachaidh. Is e an ceann-latha airson thagraidhean Dihaoine 25 Iuchar ro 5f BST. \nFiosrachadh prògraim is stiùireadh air iarrtasan. \nTha am muinntireas seo air a mhaoineachadh le Comhairle nan Leabhraichean agus air a chruthachadh ann an co-bhann le Pàirc na Camais. \n\nCove Park and The Gaelic Books Council are delighted to announce an open call for applications for the Young Gaelic Writer Residency! \nNow in its third edition\, the Young Gaelic Writer Residency is a fully funded residency for Gaelic writers aged between 18 and 30. This two-week residency will take place from Monday 27 October to Monday 10 November 2025\, and the resident will receive a fee plus travel and research allowance. The deadline for applications is Friday 25 July. \nThis residency is funded by The Gaelic Books Council and developed in collaboration with Cove Park.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/residency-application-deadline-muinntireas-do-sgriobhaiche-gaidhlig-og-young-gaelic-writer-residency-2025/
LOCATION:Cove Park
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SUMMARY:Event: Irish Women Writers Panel
DESCRIPTION:Three of the most exciting contemporary voices on the Irish literary scene come together to discuss their bold and lyrical latest works with fellow writer Rachel Connolly. \nIrish Women Writers: Wendy Erskine\, Gráinne O’Hare\, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin \nWendy Erskine is the author of two short story collections\, Sweet Home and Dance Move. She was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize\, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize and Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award\, and she received the Butler Literary Award and the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Award. She edited the art anthology\, well I just kind of like it. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, she is a frequent broadcaster and interviewer\, and works as a secondary school teacher in Belfast. The Benefactors is her debut novel. \nGráinne O’Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022. She has been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition\, the Bridport Prize\, the London Magazine Short Story Prize and the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies\, and is currently completing a PhD on eighteenth-century women’s life-writing. Thirst Trap is her first novel. \nNiamh Ní Mhaoileoin is a writer and communications officer who was the winner of the inaugural PFD Queer Fiction Prize and was also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Trust Discoveries Prize in 2022. Her debut literary novel is Ordinary Saints. \nThis event will be chaired by writer Rachel Connolly. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, New York Magazine\, The Guardian\, The FT Magazine and elsewhere and her first novel\, Lazy City\, was published in 2023 and won a Betty Trask Award.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/irish-women-writers-panel/
LOCATION:Foyles\, The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles\, 107 Charing Cross Road\, London\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250612T190000
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SUMMARY:Event: Kathryn Scanlan in Conversation with Holly Pester
DESCRIPTION:Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy\, an eighty-six-year-old woman living in a small Illinois town\, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the stranger’s diary. In the years following she edited\, arranged\, and rearranged the diarists’ words into the composition that is Aug 9 – Fog. \nKathryn Scanlan is the author of The Dominant Animal and Kick the Latch. Originally from Iowa\, she lives in Los Angeles. \nHolly Pester is a poet and writer. She is the author of collection of poems\, Comic Timing\, and a novel\, The Lodgers. \nThe event will be followed by an audience Q&A.
URL:https://ensfr.univ-angers.fr/event/kathryn-scanlan-in-conversation-with-holly-pester/
LOCATION:Foyles\, The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles\, 107 Charing Cross Road\, London\, United Kingdom
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