Last chance to enter Write Here, Write Now comp

If you're a student who wants to get your writing career off to the best possible start with a Hot Press internship, this could be your ticket – but you only have the rest of today (Thursday March 19) to enter.
Write Here, Write Now is a major national writing competition, created by Hot Press, in association with the Dublin: One City, One Book Festival.
The competition is also supported by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, under the Arts in Education heading, Eason and Microsoft.
Over the years, Hot Press has nurtured some of Ireland’s finest creative talent in music, literature, writing and journalism. We're aiming to uncover the very best new, student writing talent in the country.
If you want to be in the running for this amazing opportunity, you'll have to act fast and submit your entry by 11.59pm.
What do you have to enter?
Well, as part of the One City, One Book Festival's celebration of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy, students attending third-level institutions have been assigned a mouth-watering literary challenge... The task is to create an imaginary new place, as the location for a piece of creative writing in no more than 500 words – we're asking students to build their own Barrytown!
THE CHALLENGE
In his great modern Dublin saga, Roddy Doyle created a suburb on the north side of Dublin and called it Barrytown. The task for college students nationwide is to create, in a similar way, an imaginary new place, as the location for a piece of creative writing. So set the scene in no more than 500 words; describe the surroundings, create a sense of the environment and its people; capture the language they use; or otherwise – in whatever way you like, draw readers in and evoke the special qualities or atmosphere of your own imaginatively constructed local area, village, town or city. There are no limits as to where, when, in what era – or indeed galaxy! – your entry should be set.
To enter, or for more details, students can log on to [link]www.hotpress.com/writeherewritenow[/link]
FOUR OVERALL WINNERS…
Category 1: Second Level
Open to Leaving Certificate students (5th & 6th Year) or equivalent.
- One male winner and one female winner
- Both winners will be invited for a two-week internship in HP central.
Category 2: Third Level
Open to students in 3rd Level education, or who have completed it in the last 12 months.
- One male winner and one female winner
- Both winners will be invited for a four-week internship in HP central.
There Will Be Even More Winners...
Even if you don’t make the top four, there’s a still a chance to come away with some marvellous booty – and to set yourself on the road to writing full-time! Four runners-up, one from each province, will be selected in both Second Level and Third Level categories, to receive special prizes. And there will be prizes for additional runners-up - amounting to 22 lucky winners in all. Each of the 22 winners will receive a one-year subscription to Microsoft Office 365.
THE JUDGING PANEL:
Man Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle, MPAC Award winner Kevin Barry, Rooney Prize winner Claire Kilroy, Hot Press editor Niall Stokes and composer / songwriter Julie Feeney.
The winners will be announced at a special ceremony in The Mansion House, Dublin in April.
'Write Here, Write Now' is run by Hot Press in association with Dublin City Libraries and the One City One Book Festival. The competition is also supported by Microsoft, Eason and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, under the Arts in Education heading. THIS RELATES TO 2015's Write Here Write Now - for more info on 2016's competition go here [link]http://www.hotpress.com/writeherewritenow/[/link]