WOW! Magazine

Results Out!

POETRY

WOW! 1 Award
Absence by Patricia O'Callaghan (Dublin)

WOW! 2 Award
Kathy by Lenora Steelle (Canada)

WOW! 3 Award
At Annaghmakerrig by Michael Massey (Co Kilkenny)

FICTION

WOW! 1 Award
Lovers Who Wound Blame It On The Storm by James Lawless (Dublin)

WOW! 2 Award
On Site by Brendan Murphy (Co Galway)

WOW! 3 Award
Mausoleum by Carolyne Van Der Meer (Canada)

The six award recipients were announced at an awards ceremony in The Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill, Galway on Friday April 30 and the award plaques presented to the authors by Mr James Harrold, Galway City Arts Officer. Guests were greeted with a champagne reception and a video presentation of excerpts from the 20 authors. The award recipients were a well-kept secret until announced on the night. The anthology then went on general sale. It can be purchased here from our secure bookshop for €10 including postage.

Details of the new WOW! Awards

WOW! is an anthology of the best entries for the WOW! Award.
There are three levels of WOW! Award –

WOW! 1 Award WOW! 2 Award WOW!3 Award

The WOW! Awards are for both poetry and fiction.
The second print edition of WOW! will appear in the spring of 2011 and will feature the three WOW! Award Winners in both categories plus 7 runners-up.
You could be in it!
The closing date for entries for a WOW! Award is October 1st 2010.

Rules

Poetry: maximum number of lines 50
Fiction: maximum number of words 3000

Entries by email as a MS Word attachment to wowaward@wordsontheweb.net
Or by post to:
WOW! Award
Six San Antonio Park, Salthill, Galway, Ireland.

Remember the closing date is October 1st

Entry Fee
Poetry: €5 per poem Two Poems €8. Three Poems €10
Fiction €10 per story Two Stories €16. Three Stories €20

For email entries make payment by Paypal here.

No. of Entries

You may enter any number of poems or stories and pay in your own currency.
Your name and address on your entry should be the same as you use on Paypal.
For postal entries make cheques payable to Wordsonthestreet and post your entry to the above address

The WOW! Awards are particularly attractive to those who have a short publishing record and to the emergent writer seeking a more open publishing opportunity.

There are three awards in each category plus 7 runners-up in each category. All will be published in the print issue of WOW!

Entries will be judged anonymously. Your name should not appear on the entry but include full contact details on a separate sheet.

Good Luck!