Eamon Keane Full Length Play

This year Writers’ Week have teamed up with Siamsa Tíre, home of the National Folk Theatre as part of the Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award 2012. The winning play will not only receive a Prize of €500 but will have a Staged Reading as part of the New Voices Platform at Siamsa Tíre.

Plays submitted should be for stage presentation only and should not have previously been staged. One act plays are not eligible. Plays can be submitted only once for this competition. Re-submissions will be disqualified.

Prize: €500 plus a Staged Reading

Adjudicator: Karl Wallace

Entry Fee: €20.00 with each entry submitted

Sponsor: The Family of Eamon Keane

General Competition Rules

No Entry Form is required for this Competition.

The Closing Date for receipt of entries is: Friday 2^nd March 2012.

Entries cannot have been previously published.

All Entries must be typed.

Please retain a copy, as entries will NOT be returned.

Please submit your name and contact details on a separate sheet. No indication of the entrant’s identity should appear on the competition entry.

Please identify the specific competition for which you are entering on the front of the envelope ie. ‘Eamon Keane Full Length Play’.

The appropriate entry fee must be included with the entry, otherwise the entry will not be adjudicated.

The adjudicator’s verdict is final and no correspondence shall be entered into regarding individual competition entries. Winners only will be notified.

Awards may not be presented where an appropriate standard is not achieved.

Writers’ Week reserves the right to withhold or to publish winning entries in the publication “Winners’ Anthology 2012″.

Payments can be made by cheque or Irish Postal Order (payable to Writers’ Week Ltd) or by Laser/Credit Card (Please note the fee for Credit Cards €4 and Laser €2 per transaction) by telephoning the Office on +353 (0) 68 21074.

Please do not send cash.

Submit Entries To:

“Competition Title” (e.g. Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award)
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Ireland