FISH SHORT MEMOIR CONTEST 2012

Judge: David Sheilds

Great new contest – the Fish Short Memoir Contest, with David Shields as the judge. First prize is €2,000, and the ten best short memoirs will be published in the 2012 Fish Anthology. 
David Shields author of Reality Hunger, the Judge for the inaugural Fish Short Memoir Contest famously said – It’s all in the art, you get no credit for living. Isn’t that the case? It is often said that everyone has a novel in them, even if it is only one. Not true. But everyone must have a memoir. Not an autobiography. Too many rules. Too much adherence to fact, to structure, to convention. A memoir gives licence – to interpret, to create, to fabricate, to make sense of a life, or part of that life. Go for it! Write a piece of your life, send it to Fish. Who knows, it might be published. David Shields might look at it and think that this life, this piece of writing, has something that needs to be said. Needs to be heard. Might be the start of something.
Closing date: 30 Jan 2012.

Word limit: 4,000.

Results announced: 1st March 2012.

Entry: €15 online www.fishpublishing.com

Critique:  €40.