Summary - Prizes - Rules - Entry Fees - How to Enter
CLOSED
LONGLIST 2013
SHORTLIST 2013
WINNERS 2013
Everyone must have a memoir. Not an autobiography. Too many rules. Too much adherence to fact, to structure, to convention. A memoir gives licence - to interpret, to create, to fabricate, to make sense of a life, or part of that life. Go for it! Write a piece of your life, send it to Fish. Who knows, it might be published.
Novelist, Molly McCloskey is the judge for the 2013 Fish Short Memoir Contest. She might look at it and think that this life, this piece of writing, has something that needs to be said. Needs to be heard. Might be the start of something.
The Fish Short Memoir Contest is a chance to get your memoir published in the 2013 Fish Anthology to be launched during the West Cork Literary Festival, in July 2013.
Publication in the Fish Anthology (Fish Books) has been, for many authors, a stepping-stone to successful writing careers. See Alumni.
If you would like to refine your Memoir writing skills, you might like to take advantage of the Memoir Writing Course.
Critique Service is for writers who require an appraisal of their work prior to entering a writing contest, or at any time.
Summary Short Memoir Contest
Prizes Short Memoir Contest
Rules Short Memoir Contest
Entry Fees Short Memoir Contest
How to Enter Short Memoir Contest
Summary Short Memoir Contest
CLOSED
Judge: Molly McCloskey
Closing: 31st January 2013
Results: 10 April 2013
Anthology published: July 2013
Max length: 4,000 words
Summary - Prizes - Rules - Entry Fees - How to Enter
Prizes Short Memoir Contest
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the 2013 Fish Anthology.First - €1,000
The ten published authors will each receive five
copies of the Anthology and will be invited to read at the launch during the West Cork
Literary Festival in July.
Summary - Prizes - Rules - Entry Fees - How to Enter
Rules Short Memoir Contest
-
No entry form is needed. Entry is online, or by post if required.
-
You may enter as many times as you wish.
-
The competition is open to writers of any nationality writing in English.
-
There is no restriction on theme or style.
-
Maximum number of words is 4,000.
-
The winning memoirs must be available for the anthology and, therefore, must not have been published previously.
-
Fish holds publishing rights for one year after publication, after which publishing rights revert to the author.
-
Notification of receipt of entry will normally be by email.
-
The judges' verdict is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
-
Memoirs cannot be altered or substituted once they have been entered.
-
Judging is anonymous. Name and contact details must not appear on the memoirs, (in the box provided if entering online, on separate sheet if entering by post).
-
In order to give opportunities to emerging writers:
(a) Writers who have had two memoirs published in Fish Anthologies may not enter for three years after their second publication. They may enter other Fish competitions.
(b) Previous first prize winners may enter again, but will not be eligible for the first prize. -
Entry is taken to be acceptance of these rules
Summary - Prizes - Rules - Entry Fees - How to Enter
Entry Fees Short Memoir Contest
1st Entry |
Subsequent |
|
Online Entry |
16.00 |
10.00 |
Critique (Optional) |
40.00 |
40.00 |
Postal Entry |
18.00 |
12.00 |
Critique (Optional) |
42.00 |
42.00 |
Summary - Prizes - Rules - Entry Fees - How to Enter
How to Enter Short Memoir Contest
You can enter online or by post. The cheaper option is to enter online.
You can enter online or by post. The cheaper option is to enter online.
-
How to Enter Online
To enter online, click online entry, and follow the instructions.
MAKE SURE YOUR NAME AND CONTACT DETAILS ARE NOT ON THE STORY. (Judging is done anonymously.)
Your
memoir and name are linked automatically when you enter.
FISH SHORT MEMOIR PRIZE
ONLINE ENTRY
-
How to Enter by Post
Post to: Fish Short Memoir Prize, Durrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Print on one side of the page only in reasonable sized type. The Fish Prize is judged anonymously, so please do not put your name or contact details on any of the story pages. Include all contact details on a separate sheet.
Receipt of entry will be by email. Memoirs will not be returned.
N.B. Do not sent postal orders (outside Ireland).
Make cheques out in your own currency.
Summary - Prizes - Rules - Entry Fees - How to Enter
Casa Ana in Las Alpujarras, southern Spain, regularly offers Writers Retreats: here you’ll find a room of your own, inspiring surroundings, good food and the company of other writers.
Casa Ana is a 400-year old house in the Alpujarras mountains of Andalucia. Once an important family home with a wine press, 
olive oil store, barns and stables, Casa Ana has been transformed into a stylish and comfortable rural retreat with south-facing terraces, a garden and spectacular river gorge views.
(Full board is included in the 2nd prize week's stay at this stunning retreat)