I see a fiction competition

Essilor Ireland, inventors of the varifocal, are celebrating 50 years of Varilux and are running a short story competition.

Local optometrist Nichola Kennedy is involved as a prize sponsor, and entry forms are available from her front desk.

The specifications are basically to write 2,000 words of a short story about seeing something for the first time -with the eye, the mind, the imagination, or the spirit or all the above!

Closing date is 30 Oct 2009, and other sponsors include Essilor and the Killaloe Hedge-School of Writing, run by award-winning author and journalist David Rice.