Closing Date: 30 August 2013
Submissions by publishing houses only for books published between 1 May 2011 and 31 May 2013.
Further details, including eligibility on the Commonwealth Writers website.
Closing Date: 30 August 2013
Submissions by publishing houses only for books published between 1 May 2011 and 31 May 2013.
Further details, including eligibility on the Commonwealth Writers website.
James Benmore’s Dodger (Heron Books, 2013) was longlisted for the “Not the Booker prize”.
More information in the Guardian.
Judged by Robert Coover, closes for entries on August 31st.
Established in 2008, the winner is awarded $1,000 and publication in the journal. Two honorable mentions each receive $250 and will also be published. All entries are considered for paid publication on the Gulf Coast website
Information on how to enter is online here.
From Gilgamesh to Beowulf – 5,000 years of epic: two creative writing workshops led by Jenny Lewis (Gilgamesh, 10.00-12.30) and Jane Draycott (Beowulf, 1.30-4.00), followed by a group reading from 4.00-5.00pm.
Price: £15 per workshop or £25 for the whole day.
For more details visit the Ashmolean website.
Prajwal Parajuly’s The Gurkha’s Daughter (prose) and David Shook’s Our Obsidian Tongues (poetry) have been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2013. The prize, for young writers, was launched in 2006.
More about the prize.
The complete 2013 longlist.
Featuring work by MSt in Creative Writing graduates David Shook and Patrick Toland, and also poems by A.E. Stallings, Carrie Fountain and Kate Potts, fiction by Ron Rash and a conversation with Don Paterson on, amongst other matters, poetry and creative writing schools .
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