“You’ve got one idea that excites you, and all these other ideas start to kind of come out of it.” In this Sligo County Libraries event, award-winning author Paul Murray discusses the middle-class challenges of the characters in his latest novel, The Bee Sting (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), in a conversation with Colm Tóibín.
Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.