Under Thirty is a new and unique non-profit project that nurtures and showcases young Irish fiction at home and aboard. It provides writers access to a panel of experienced writers, literary scholars, editors, and publishers, who work entirely voluntarily to review submissions and provide feedback and encouragement to the country’s aspiring writers.
The project opened in September 2012 and is seeking submissions from new young writers all over the country and from Irish writers abroad. The deadline for the inaugural issue is midnight on November 7th, with the publication at a special event in December 2012. For more information, and to make a submission visit http://under-30.org/, and join the conversation on social media: w.facebook.com/underthirty and www.twitter.com/underthirty.
“The most promising submissions are published in our journal, available as an e-book, and as a printed book – an award is given to one outstanding new writer in the form of a scholarship or writing retreat.
Our current focus is on young writers who are resident in Ireland, and Irish writers abroad. In 2013 we will expand the project to the UK and USA, and include writers of younger children’s literature of any age.”
Check out the website to find out more about this excellent project and to get information on the panel of reviewers (which I’m delighted to be part of). All writers who submit will also receive anonymous feedback on their work – for this who are serious about writing this is reason enough to submit I reckon. So get writing and submitting now…
snap 🙂 Of course the panel are under thirty too…
Of course Valerie – did I not make that clear!?