Just before we launch this year's Allingham Festival Fiction & Poetry competitions, why not have a read of the winners in both competitions from 2015 and 2014? The winning entries from both years are available to read on our website (finally!) on the Fiction & Poetry page.
The Allingham Festival Committee are delighted to announce that Valerie Cox will deliver the 2016 Allingham Lecture. Valerie is well-known to radio listeners around the country as an investigative reporter on prime time RTÉ shows such as Morning Ireland, the Today with Seán O'Rourke Show and the Pat Kenny Show. Valerie recently retired from RTÉ after twenty years with the broadcaster, although it is highly likely that she will continue to contribute and produce programmes on a freelance basis. We are delighted that she has agreed to deliver this year's Allingham lecture. The subject and further details of the lecture will be announced later in the year.
We're delighted to announce that this year will see the return of the Allingham Songwriting Contest, as well as our Poetry and Flash Fiction competitions. More details will follow soon.
The standard of entries in the songwriting contest was exceptionally high last year, and we hope to showcase a few of these on our YouTube channel in coming weeks.
In addition, we are working on a more permanent online home for the excellent stories and poems we have received over the years.
So, if you have a song, a poem or a story which you'd like to enter, it's time to start getting it in shape for entry. The songwriting contest will culminate in a live final as part of the festival in November, while the results of the poetry and fiction competitions will be released a couple of weeks in advance of the awards ceremony on the Saturday night of the festival weekend.
Time is running out to respond to our open call for proposals. The deadline for the Open Call is midnight April 30th, so if you haven't got around to it yet, now is the time to apply.
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One of the Top 2 Winning entries - Jennifer Lynch (The Snow)
Hi all, we finally have the results through from the 'POETRY IN MOTION' competition for #allingham2015.
WINNERS;
'A Dream' by Steven Emerson
'In Snow' by Jennifer Lynch
HIGHLY COMMENDED;
Paul McGinn 'The Bubble'
Cathal Cavanagh 'Lorcan The Leprechaun'
Patrick McCallion 'The Wizard'
COMMENDED;
Plus 3 highlight entries from NWRC (Limavady Media students) under the supervision of Tracy Cullen.
Andrew Kelly 'The Eviction'
Cathaoir Kerrigan 'The Winter Pear'
Daniel J. Patton 'Half Waking'
Top 2 shown here, more clips of the highly commended and commended to follow.
https://vimeo.com/144285251
https://vimeo.com/144118857
Well done everyone. The winners and highly commended students have won a place at DELVE2016 (http://delveworkshop.tumblr.com) Dates to be announced soon.
The judging panel included Wes Sewell of SpinVfx. We would like to thank Wesley for taking the time out to take part in the adjudication.
http://www.allinghamfestival.com/wessewell
Steven Emerson's entry 'A Dream'