Thursday 9 September 2010

Bram Stoker Award

Via the lovely Michael Farry blog.

The Bram Stoker Literary Challenge held in conjunction with the Stoker Dracula International Halloween Festival of Horror.

The competition is open to everyone, everywhere! The scope of the theme field is just about limitless…..ghosts, vampires, banshees, death, blood, haunted houses, spooky graveyards, creepy bell towers, gruesome dungeons, horror castles, scary blood curdling noises, eerie nightmares, macabre happenings …. all can be real or imagined!

All entries must be in English and the theme must be gothic/horror with a maximum of 2000 words. Entries can be in the form of a prose piece, a short story, a poem, a play (drama) or even a song or ballad.

Fee: 20 euro (Gulp!) Update, now 10 Euro!

First Prize 500 euro and The Academy of Bram Stoker Literary Award presented at banquet in Clontarf Castle on Halloween Night
Deadline 1st October 2010. More on the website. Update now 15th October!

2 comments:

Titus said...

Now that sounds like serious fun! I may have a crack as haven't written a story for a while.

Frank said...

Gulp and Janey, bloodsuckers!
FM.