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So you think you can write a short story for the radio

[Deleted User] · 2021-04-25 08:04:11

Have been hearing ads on Radio 1 for the Francis McManus Short Story Competition. There is a number of posters on the Forum who have an obvious ability to write well, so this might be of interest. The nice thing about this competition is that it is open to anyone. There are no rules on content, apart from wordcount –…

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Have been hearing ads on Radio 1 for the Francis McManus Short Story Competition.

There is a number of posters on the Forum who have an obvious ability to write well, so this might be of interest. The nice thing about this competition is that it is open to anyone. There are no rules on content, apart from wordcount – approx 1,800 words. That's approximately equivalent to the wordcount for one of the Leaving Cert English papers, if anyone remembers.
In other words, you'd get a decent draft finished in an afternoon.

https://www.rte.ie/radio1/francis-macmanus-short-story/

The 35-year-old literary prize recognises and rewards the best new Irish fiction writing for radio. Free to enter, last year's competition, which coincided with Ireland's first lockdown, attracted record entries – over 4,000.

A shortlist of ten stories will be announced in September, and the top prizewinners will be announced on an Arena special programme later on.

The overall winner will receive €3,000, while €2,000 and €1,000 will be awarded to the second and third place prize winners respectively. A further seven runners-up will receive €250 each, and all 10 shortlisted stories will be published on rte.ie/culture and broadcast in a season of new writing on RTÉ Radio 1 in the autumn.

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