June, 2025

Event Details
The 10th annual Write By The Sea Writing Competition is open until Friday 6th June 2025, 18:00 Irish Standard Time. The winner of each category will receive a cash prize of
Event Details
The 10th annual Write By The Sea Writing Competition is open until Friday 6th June 2025, 18:00 Irish Standard Time.
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.
There are four competition categories:
- Fiction Short Story (maximum 2,500 words)
- Flash Fiction (maximum 700 words)
- Poetry (maximum 40 lines)
- Memoir/Personal Essay (maximum 1,000 words)
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.