MITCHELSTOWN INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2008.

(Formerly William Trevor Short Story Competition.)

The organising committee of the above competition is pleased to announce that entries are now being accepted for the Mitchelstown International Short Story Competition 2008, this being the first competition under this banner.

“This is an ideal opportunity for creative writers to have the standard of their literary efforts appraised. Our adjudicators for the competition are Nuala Ni Chonchuir and Vincent McDonnell, who are well known short story writers themselves, and both have won several prestigious national competitions in recent years. They will select a short list of circa 20 stories and the final adjudicator will be John MacKenna, whose recent book of short stories, The River Field, has received much critical acclaim. If competition, in any facet of life, is the act of testing oneself against, or being judged by, the best then, in this competition, that tenet certainly holds true.

Each story should contain a maximum of 3000 words and should be submitted, by post only, on or before Friday 12th. December 2008. The winner will receive the Cork County Council Library Services Prize of €2,500 and a Laptop Computer sponsored by The Mouse Pad, Mitchelstown. Five runners up will receive cash prizes of €200.00 each. There is an entry fee of €20.00 per entry and each entry must have an official entry form attached.

A copy of the official entry form can also be downloaded here.