SOUNDWAVES

Our Aim

We are aiming to promote both creative writing and the performing of this work for writers in the north of Ireland.

Competiton Rules

Theme: 2024 Theme to be decided

Opening date for submissions May 1st, 2024

Closing date for Submissions: July 31st, 2024

Accepting places: The successful writers will be contacted via their email account on or around the 1st August. There will be a limited amount of time to reply to accept your place before the spot will be offered to one of the runner-up entry’s.

Submissions: Writers may submit one entry to each part of the competion, this may be one Prose or Poetry piece. Each Prose piece must be less than 1400 words.                                                                    

Entry Winners: Ten Winners will be chosen to perform their piece in Portstewart in a Showcase Event on Saturday, 5thth October 2024. By entering you are confirming your availability for the physical performance. All 10 finalists will have their work published by Steve Cawte, Editor of Impspired, in Impspired Online Magazine (out 1st December 2024), and the subsequent Print Edition (Out at the end of January 2024).

Showcase Night: On the night of the Showcase event a panel of judges, after having heard all 10 readers will select three overall prize winners. One for best Prose piece, one for best poem and a third for best performance on the night.

Judging: The three winning finalists will then be asked to join the judging panel for the following years competition.

           

Submission Guidelines:  

  • One Submission only per person of either Poetry and/or Prose. 
  • Please submit your piece in a  Word File attached to an email and send to ImpspiredSoundwavesCompetition@outlook.com preferably in Times New Roman, Font Size 12, with ‘Impspired North Coast Competition’ AND your Name in the email subject line.
  • This submission will then be forwarded anonymously to a Panel of Impspired Judges chaired by Steve Cawte. There must be no name or any information about the Sender in any entry. If you have your name in the header or footer of your work please remove it prior to submission.
  •  Please also send a short biography (about 200 words or so) and a good resolution photograph with your submission. This is needed for those Winners who will be published in the Impspired Online magazine and subsequent Print Edition. 
  • We accept reprints or simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if the piece has been accepted elsewhere.