Write By The Sea is open for 2025 entries.
Submission Guidelines
There are four competition categories:
1. Fiction Short Story (maximum 2,500 words)
2. Flash Fiction (maximum 700 words)
3. Poetry (maximum 40 lines)
4. Memoir/Personal Essay (maximum 1,000 words)
- Entries must be original and unpublished including, online or print, self-published or paid.
- Entries must be in English.
- Entrants can submit multiple submissions subject to the entry fee.
Entry fee: €10 per entry.
Judges: The independent panel of judges will select the winners and each category winner will be invited to read from their work at a public event as part of the festival.
Prizes
- The winner of each category will receive a cash prize of €500 and a free weekend pass to the Write By The Sea Festival 2025.
- All four winning pieces will be published in Issue 10 of The Waxed Lemon Literary Journal.
- The runners-up in each category will receive €300 and third place will receive €200.
Deadline: Friday 6th June 2025, 6 pm.
All details and submissions through their website Write By The Sea.