The shortlist in the Allingham 2017 Flash FictionCompetition is as follows:
Mary Angland
Amy Campbell
Chris Connolly
Michela Esposito
Patrick Holloway
Louise Kennedy
Paul Lenehan
Róisin Loughrey
Niamh MacCabe
Siobhán McNamara
Una Mannion
Best of luck to all! The shortlist for Poetry
willbe published in coming days.
Join us for the Allingham Festival programme launch with 'Young Stephen', a dramatic adaptation of Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', starring Patrick McEneaney, in the Abbey Arts Centre on October 14th, with wine reception at 7.30pm.
'Young Stephen' examines the early life of Stephen Dedalus from Joyce’s semiautobiographical novel. Stephen’s young and idyllic life is turned around as he spends his first term at boarding school. We follow Stephen from isolation and loneliness to a new sense of freedom. On his return home he finds a household torn down the middle due to the political turmoil caused by the fallout from the revelation of Charles Stewart Parnell’s affair with Kitty O’Shea.
McEneaney’s highly energetic performance expertly weaves through the characters and stories of young Stephen’s formative years.
Also on the night, Allingham Festival Committee chairperson Tom Sigafoos will present a preview of the Allingham Festival 2017.
Not to be missed!
Abbey Arts Centre - October 14th - Free Admission - Wine Reception - 7.30pm.
The deadline for entries to the Allingham Festival Songwriting Competition has been extended to midnight on Friday October 8th. Spread the word! If you didn't get the chance to enter the first time, now is the time to upload via our website www.allinghamfestival.com/songwriting, or to post your entry with payment to Allingham Songwriting, A Novel Idea, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal.
The deadline for the Allingham Festival Flash Fiction and Poetry competitions has been extended to September 17th! It's time to upload or post your entry. There's a €300 prize in each category. To be in with a chance of winning, simply visit www.allinghamfestival.com/online-entry to upload your entry, or post it to Allingham Fiction/Poetry, A Novel Idea, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal with your entry fee. Winners will receive a €300 prize and be invited to read at our Literary Lunch event on Saturday Nov. 11th in Ballyshannon.
The judges for this year's Allingham Fiction and Poetry competitions are poet Moya Cannon and novelist Paul Lynch. There is still time to enter both competitions as the deadline is September 9th for postal entries and midnight September 11th for online entries. The prize in each category is €300. For more information, visit www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poetry-competitions.
Moya Cannon will judge this year's Allingham Poetry Competition. Moya is the author of five collections of poems, the most recent being Keats Lives (2015, Carcanet Press, Manchester). She was born in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal, spent most of her adult life in Galway and now lives in Dublin. She studied History and Politics at University College, Dublin, and International Relations at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Her work sings of deep connections— the impulse to ritual and pattern that, across centuries, defines us a human, a web of interdependences that sustain the ‘gratuitous beauty’ of the planet. A winner of the Brendan Behan and Lawrence O Shaughnessy awards, she has edited Poetry Ireland Review and was 2011 Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University. Her Collected Poems will be published by Carcanet Press in 2018.
Paul Lynch is this year's Allingham Flash Fiction Competition judge. Paul is the prize-winning author of GRACE, THE BLACK SNOW and RED SKY IN MORNING. He won the French booksellers’ prize Prix Libr’à Nous for Best Foreign Novel and was a finalist for the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize). He won the Prix des Lecteurs Privat, and was nominated for France’s Prix Femina, the Prix du Premier Roman (First Novel Prize) and the Prix du Roman Fnac (Fnac Novel Prize), as well as being shortlisted at Ireland’s Bord Gais Irish Books of the Year. In the US, both his novels were Amazon.com books of the month and he was selected by Barnes and Noble for the Discover Great New Writers series. Paul was born in Limerick in 1977, grew up in Co. Donegal, and lives in Dublin with his wife and daughter. He was the chief film critic of Ireland’s Sunday Tribune newspaper from 2007 to 2011, when the newspaper folded. He has written for many Irish newspapers and has written regularly for The Sunday Times on film.
