Twitter Fiction Competition

"Can you craft a tiny tale?

If you are a master of microprose, Fish Publishing is holding a free twitter fiction competition every month. Reply to our tweet detailing the contest on twitter with a nano story of 140 characters and you could be published in the Fish Anthology 2011. Deadline for the next contest is 30th October.

Fish Publishing 2011 Poetry Prize

The Fish Poetry Prize 2011

Opens: 20 August 2010
Closes: 30 March 2011
Results Announced: 30 April 2011
Judge: Brian Turner



There is no restriction on the theme of poems, but there is a word limit of 200.
All poems must be written in English and must not have been published previously.
The best 10 poems will be published in the 2011 Fish Anthology.
First prize €1,000.

Online Entries €14. Postal entries €16

A First Prize of €1,000 to the winner plus publication in the 2011 Fish Anthology.
The best ten poems will be published in the 2011 Anthology and each poet will receive five copies of the Anthology.
All winning poets will be invited to the launch of the 2011 Fish Anthology. This will take place during the West Cork Literary Festival in July 2011.

Go to http://www.fishpublishing.com/writing-contest-competition.php for submission details.

Brian Turner's poetry was included in the Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with a feature-length documentary film. His collection Here, Bullet (Bloodaxe Books, 2007) was first published in the US by Alice James Books in 2005, where it has earned Turner nine major literary awards, including a 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship and a 2007 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry. In 2009 he was given an Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship. His second collection, Phantom Noise is published by Alice James Books in the US and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK in 2010.

Fish Publishing One Page Fiction Competition

The Fish One-Page Story Prize - Flash Fiction - 2011

Opens: 20 August 2010
Closes: 20 March 2011
Results Announced: 30 April 2011
Judges: Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons and founder member of the band Genesis

This competition accepts stories of max 300 words on any theme. €1,000 First Prize. The best 10 stories will be published in the Fish Anthology 2011.
The winner and nine runners up will be published in the 2011 Fish Anthology.
First Prize - €1,000 plus publication in the 2011 Fish Anthology.
Nine runners-up will be published in the Anthology and will each receive plus five complementary copies of the Anthology.
All winning authors will be invited to the launch of the 2011 Fish Anthology. This will take place during the West Cork Literary Festival in July.

Go to http://www.fishpublishing.com/writing-contest-competition.php for submission details.

Online Entries €14. Postal entries €16

Chris Stewart, the drummer from Genesis' first album, is today better known as the witty author of Driving Over Lemons, A Parrot in the Pepper Tree and The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society.

17th Fish Short Story Prize

NOW OPEN
Closes: 30th November 2010
Results Announced: 17 March 2011
Judge: Simon Mawer
Online Entries (€20). Postal entries (€25)

The overall winner will receive €3,000, of which €1,000 is for travel to the launch of the Anthology. Second prize is a week at Anam Cara Writers' and Artists' Retreat and €300. Third prize €300.

The Fish Short Story Prize for 2010/2011 is open for entries. We are delighted to announce that Simon Mawer, author of "The Glass Room" (and seven other novels) will judge the prize.
Fish Publishing runs the short story competition each year, the winners of which are published in the annual Fish Anthology.
Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann and Dermot Healy, previously judges of the Fish Short Story Prize, are honorary patrons.
The Fish Short Story Prize welcomes stories on any theme written in English, with a maximum of 5,000 words. The Anthology will be launched during the West Cork Literary Festival, July 2011.
Fish have been running the short story contest since 1995. Publication in the anthology has been a stepping stone for many into successful writing careers.
Go to http://www.fishpublishing.com/writing-contest-competition.php for submission details.


Simon Mawer is author of eight novels and two non fiction books. His latest novel, The Glass Room, published by Little, Brown in January 2009, was on the Man Booker shortlist. The next one, provisionally entitled Trapeze, is underway...

"Simon Mawer's work is rich with a desire to see through to the core of things."
The Observer