Write by the Sea Literary Festival calls entries for 2020 Writing Competitions. There are three competition categories:

• Fiction Short Story (maximum 3,000 words)
• Memoir – a factual account of a memorable moment (maximum 3,000 words)
• Poetry (maximum 40 lines)

Prizes

Two category winners will be presented with a cash prize of €250 and the overall winner will receive the top cash prize of €500. All three winners will receive a beautiful hand-crafted Write By The Sea Festival 2020 Writing Competition trophy and all three winning pieces will be published on the Write By The Sea website.

Rules and Regulations 

• Entries must be the original and unpublished work of the entrant.
• Entries must relate to our Write By The Sea 2020 theme ‘Waves’.
• Entries must be typed in Word document format and double-spaced* (see Note A below).
• Entries must be submitted via the Online Entry Form on the Competition page of the WBTS website, writebythesea.ie where entrants will upload their names and contact details.
• As submissions are judged on an anonymous basis, the author’s name and contact details must not appear anywhere in the text of the writing submission.
• Entrants can submit as many entries as they wish at €10 per entry, or €25 for three entries (which can be in any or all of the three categories).
• The decision of the judges is final.
• No correspondence/contact will be entered into and no feedback will be given to individual entrants.
• Entrants should retain copies of their work as entries will NOT be returned.
• The closing date for entries is 11.59 pm on Friday 10 July 2020
• Committee members and relatives of committee members of the Write By The Sea festival, its agents, contributors or sponsors are not eligible to enter the competition.
• All non-winning entries will be deleted from the records after three months from the date of the announcement of the competition results.

Timeline 

• Monday 16 March 2020: Competition opens
• Friday 10 July 2020: competition closes at 11.59 pm
• Friday 21 August 2020: shortlist of the winning entries will be posted on the WBTS website, writebythesea.ie
• September 2020: winners will be notified by WBTS
• October 2020: the winning pieces will be published on the WBTS website

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