It has come to our attention that some entries received for our Short Story Competition have been previously electronically published and are available to the general public for reading.
Anyone yet to submit an entry should bear this in mind as sending us anything already published will lead to automatic disqualification.
Thank you.
Deborah.

With only 8 days left until our Short Story Competition closes for this year, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone for their support and to the wonderful writers who have graced us with their stories.

A special thanks to Thomas Crosbie Group for their bountiful advertising, to Martin at www.write4all.ie, to Pam at National Association of Writer's Groups, to the libraries and writers' groups across the globe for their support and enthusiasm for the competition, to Carol at Kudos, to Sally the Arts Officer at South Tipperary County Council, Michael Clarke at ClonmelOnline.ie, The Kilkenny People, The Nationalist, The Kerryman, our friends and family for the ongoing rah-rah-rahs, all of the bloggers who have lent a hand including Louise Philips for her post and tweets and to everyone who has retweeted, mentioned or otherwise given us a big thumbs up.

And thanks to Bryan Murray for coming on board as our fabulous Guest Judge and to my dear father, the late Len Labello for his inspiration and support, his endless friendship and love.

Happy Holidays to you all and a maaahvalous New Year.

Great news! We are excited, thrilled, and honoured to announce that multi-talented Irish Stage and TV actor Bryan Murray will be joining us as our very special Guest Judge for our inaugural International Short Story Competition.

With such a busy schedule, we are grateful that he is making himself available to assist us in the exciting launch of this yearly event.

Please visit our Submission Guidelines page for more information on Bryan's career to date.

Remember, if you're sending your submission by post we will accept it post-stamped right up to 31st December.

Deborah

We're now into the final month accepting submissions for our annual anthology 'Gem Street.'
Just a reminder that the closing date for the competition is midnight 31st December. If you are using our postal option, your submission must be postmarked by this date.

We want to thank those of you who have already sent in a story and look forward to receiving more in the coming weeks.

We will announce the Long-Listed stories in January (date to be confirmed) with the Short-Listed winners following at the end of February.


Hope you are all having a lovely Autumn.

Deborah