Glen Dimplex
New Writers Awards 2008
Shortlist Announcement
Shortlisted books
Poetry
Paul Batchelor
The Sinking Road
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Ciaran Berry
The Sphere of Birds
The Gallery Press
Valeria Melchioretto
The End of Limbo
Salt Publishing
Eleanor Rees
Andvaste’s Hair
Salt Publishing
Kathryn Simmonds
Sunday at the Skin Launderette
Seren
Will Stone
Glaciation
Salt Publishing
The Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2008 in association with the Irish Writers? Centre are delighted to announce this year?s shortlists.
With a total prize fund of ?45,000, the annual awards offer unprecedented support and exposure for emerging writers in a range of genres.
The Awards are made to the best first book published in the last year in Ireland and the UK by an author within each of the following five categories: Fiction, Poetry, Children?s Book, Biography/Non-fiction and for the best first book published in any genre in the Irish language.
The Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year 2008 will be chosen from the five category winners.
Each category winner will receive a prize of ?5,000. There will also be an overall award for the Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year with a prize of ?20,000.
The Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards are organised in association with the Irish Writers? Centre and will be judged by a panel of 10 writers: Claire Kilroy, Mike McCormack, Gerard Smyth, Matthew Sweeney, Dermot Bolger, June Considine, Peter Cunningham, Thomas McCarthy, Nuala N? Dhomhnaill and ?il?s N? Dhuibhne.
?We are delighted to be associated with these Awards again this year and are pleased that they have become one of the major literary awards for emerging authors. The substantial prize fund underlines our ongoing commitment to promotion of the arts in Ireland?, said Martin Naughton, Chairman of Glen Dimplex.
?As the premier development agency for writers and writing in Ireland, the Irish Writers? Centre is delighted to join Glen Dimplex in these innovative awards for emerging writers. This is the point in a promising writer?s career when the unprecedented support and exposure that these awards will give is most needed. Glen Dimplex is to be congratulated for their generous commitment to these awards, which have become the pre-eminent awards for new writing in these islands,? says Cathal McCabe, Director of the Irish Writers? Centre.
The shortlist will be announced on 7 October 2008. Award winners in each category and the overall winner will be announced at a presentation ceremony in The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin on 10 November 2008.
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