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Inspired Creative Writing

Thu, 28/07/2016 - 10:39pm
First excerpt | Inspired Creative Writing

This is the first excerpt from Inspired Creative Writing by Alexander Gordon Smith from the brisk and entertaining 52 Brilliant Ideas series. This month, the first chapter, Limbering Up:  Read more

Inspired Creative Writing 2

Thu, 28/07/2016 - 10:39pm
Taking the Plunge

This is the second excerpt from Inspired Creative Writing by Alexander Gordon Smith from the brisk and entertaining 52 Brilliant Ideas series. This month, Taking the Plunge.  Read more

Inspired Creative Writing 3

Thu, 28/07/2016 - 10:39pm
Learning to see the world in a new light

This is the third excerpt from Inspired Creative Writing by Alexander Gordon Smith from the brisk and entertaining 52 Brilliant Ideas series. This month, Learning to see the world in a new light.  Read more

Inspired Creative Writing 4

Thu, 28/07/2016 - 10:39pm
Style is everything!

This is the fourth excerpt from Inspired Creative Writing by Alexander Gordon Smith from the brisk and entertaining 52 Brilliant Ideas series. This month, Style is everything!  Read more

Inspired Creative Writing 5

Thu, 28/07/2016 - 10:39pm
Who’s the daddy: character or plot?

This is the fifth excerpt from Inspired Creative Writing by Alexander Gordon Smith from the brisk and entertaining 52 Brilliant Ideas series. This month, Who’s the daddy: character or plot?  Read more

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Thu, 28/07/2016 - 10:39pm
Sixth excerpt | Inspired Creative Writing

This is the sixth excerpt from Inspired Creative Writing by Alexander Gordon Smith from the brisk and entertaining 52 Brilliant Ideas series. This month, how to learn to let go.  Read more

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The Moth Poetry Prize 2020

Information

Closing date: 
31 December 2020
Entry: 
Open to all poets over 16 for an unpublished poem. Entry fee €15 per poem
Prize: 
1st prize €6,000, plus three runner-up prizes of €1,000 and eight commended poets will each receive €250

The prize is for an unpublished poem, and entrants (over 16) are welcome from anywhere in the world.

The four shortlisted poems will be published in the spring
2021 issue of The Moth and the overall winner will be announced at a special award ceremony at Poetry Ireland

The website of the Irish National Poetry Organisation, offering a resource centre, introductions and readings from new and emerging poets resident in Ireland. www.poetryireland.ie

in the spring.

There is an entry fee of €15 per poem.

This year's judge is Nick Laird.  Read more

'You only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already'.

21 September 2020

'Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope - and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing - that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr.  Read more

'Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself.  Read more

— Roger Zelazny

14 September 2020 - What's new

September 2020
  • Translating Elena Ferrante - 'The first draft is the words as they are, more or less in the order they appear. It is pretty straightforward. But most of the time there is then some shaping of that language into an English that reads like English but still contains some suggestion of the Italian.
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