2019 Writing Competition
Entry is closed for this year.
A longlist of the top submissions in each competition can be found below.
This is an open competition for short stories, flash fiction and poems on any subject matter.
All entry fees will go to the Michael Mullan Cancer Fund.
A shortlist of the top 6 in each category will be announced in September.
Poetry Longlist
In Plain Sight
Ferry
Useful Information
I looked for You
Figments of Imagination
Tour De France
Evolution of a complaint
The Holm Oak
The Return
Every Time I Pass Saint Luke’s
A Journey
Flicker
A Hand in abstentia
Through a Lens on Omey
Through the Trees
Chasing Stars
Don’t Grow Up Yet
No. 42
John in the Glen
Later
Short Story Longlist 2019
The Saucier
The Ocean
2071
Scheherazade
Charleroi
Thirteen Hundred Hours
Rain
Hem Boys
Leaving Poetry
One in the Middle
At Peace
The Stranger
Along the Coast
Southern Hospitality
The Painted on Smile
Snowman
Yellowed
On the Move
Root and Branch
Headless Annie
Flash Fiction Longlist 2019
Another Cup of Tea
Invisible Prey
Downwardly Mobile
The Glass Mosquito
Baubles
The Record Player
Holding Hands
Why I am Breaking Up With You
Minding
A Change in the Wind
In Plain Sight
The Meeting
Lost and Found
A Rough Break up
The Devil is in the Detail
The Letter
Dead Ringer
It was only for one night
Bad News
Cold Feet
Getting Away
Shortlist & Winners
*The top 6 shortlisted in each competition will be listed in September.
*Winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded at a special event on Wednesday 9 October 2019 (7.00 pm for 7.30 pm) at Newbridge Library, Co. Kildare as part of the 2019 Kildare Readers Festival.
*The winning entries in each competition will be published on the Michael Mullan Cancer Fund website and also on the Kildare Readers Festival website.