Writing competition

A writing competition to mark the 80th birthday of writer Aidan Higgins is being held in conjunction with a festival related to the event organised for Celbridge Abbey, Celbridge, Co Kildare for May 4-6 2007.

You may submit a novel extract, a short story, or whatever you wish.

The competition, which has a first prize of 1,000 euros, will be adjudicated by Patrick McMahon, Galway County Librarian.

Aidan Higgins was born in Celbridge in 1927. Perhaps his best known work is the novel 'Langrishe, Go Down' (1966) which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Irish Academy of Letters Award and was filmed with a screenplay by Harold Pinter.

Full details of the competition are available here or from the Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge.