RTE short story comp.

Deadline Thursday, March 15th 2007. Get scribbling!

 http://www.rte.ie/tv/seoigeandoshea/competition.html

Paper Beings by Siobhan Casey

He sat on the edge of the bed, unmade and quiltless. Knowing his rage would eventually come flying out of him like a skyful of bats, he took the opportunity to try again to make sense of the past forty-eight hours

Writers’ Week Listowel

Great link with competition info and a list of talks, workshops etc for this year’s writers’ week…

http://www.writersweek.ie/

Untitled by David Tierney

The sound of coughs and groans was the signal the demons had been waiting for. Their eerie shrieks struck such a fear in Kevins heart that he had no choice but to leave his precious treasure of white gold behind.

Free Jazz by Kevin Smith

Cat gut shudders
In the vigorous dark,

Untitled by Alan Brereton

I’m looking for… Whatever it is?

Assignment 6:Language/Communication

Untitled by Mary Kavanagh

 

Rose arrived late that first day tugging a rather reluctant Leanne by the hand. She smiled reassuringly at her two and a half year old who looked a little mesmerised by this new turn of events.

Deconstructing a Pillar of Salt Grain by Grain by Kevin Smith

Is self-mockery as senseless as self-indulgence?

Inarticulate by Kevin Smith

I’m so fucking inarticulateAny attempt at elucidating my rave just makes each fucking phrase more
unintelligible than the anterior

Anti-poem by Kevin Smith

people don’t
get
poetry
anymore.
poets don’tunderstand
poetry
anymore|either.
even the
authors
don’t understand
their poe-
try