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Aspiring scribes poised for Writers’ Week


Never ones to rest on their laurels, Writers’ Week in Listowel has announced details of its literary workshops and competitions for 2012. The festival will take place from the May 30 to June 3 with submissions for all competitions taken until Friday, March 2.
The literary workshops and competitions have been launched with 15 workshops including novel, poetry, short fiction, theatre, freelance journalism, screen, creative writing and new for this year, travel writing. 
Writers’ Week have in place a selection of workshop directors, who will share their writing expertise, such as Paul Perry, who will direct poetry; Aifric Campbell, who will teach novel getting started and Mark O’Halloran, who will teach everything he knows about writing for screen and television.  New to this year’s festival will be renowned journalist, Sinead Gleeson, who will direct freelance journalism; successful theatre writer Mark O’Rowe and travel writer and documentary maker, Manchán Magan.  
Places for workshops are limited to 15 and should be booked well in advance to avoid disappointment.
There are a diverse range of competitions to choose from including novel, creative writing for youth, tell your story, poetry and short story. New to this year’s range of competitions is a collaboration with Siamsa Tíre on the Eamon Keane full-length play competition. In addition to winning a cash prize, the winner will also receive a staged reading with the theatre company as part of their New Voices Platform. 
This year there will be a special category, which invites submissions in the form of short story or poem from people with special needs of all ages.

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