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Writing4all – The Best of 2009
by Edited by John Kenny
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 21st April 2010
ISBN: 978-1-907179-67-9
Price: €11.95
Writing4all is an online writers’ resource where writers can share their creative writing – poetry, short stories, memoirs, etc. – get feedback and comment on other writers’ work.
The contents of Writing4all – The Best of 2009 represent the Best of the Month selections in fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Also included are the winning stories in our Writing Spirit Award competition, which ran in the last quarter of 2009.
In this volume you will find a wide range of subject matter covered in our non-fiction, from a backpacker’s trip to the town of Zunn Mod in Outer Mongolia and a song of praise to the delights of Munich to an exquisite dining experience in Catalonia and an intense account of the 2007 earthquake in Peru.
A broad variety of preoccupations informs our fiction and poetry sections. The treasure chest of nature and the dreamlike but powerful aspect of memory are just two of the themes that run through many of the poems. Memory and loss are dealt with in several of the short stories, with infusions of dark fantasy in some pieces.
Dip in and enjoy.
The contributors to this superb collection of new Irish writing are as follows:
Writing Spirit Award 2009 Winners
1st Place
Perpetuity by Brian Kirk
2nd Place
The Fox by Gerry Boland
3rd Place
The Weight of Words by Máire T. Robinson
Writing4all Monthly Fiction Winners
An English End by Hugh Lavelle
The Thing by Ian Scull
Cigarettes & Apparitions by Richard O’Connell Jr
Sherbet Cole by Paul O’Meara
Curse and Counsel on Kell Island by Martin Murphy
The Wilderness by Patricia Brady
The Hidden Moon by Mark McGlynn
The Big Three-oh by Patricia Brady
The Hunted by Fern Lewis
February by Gareth Osborne
Writing4all Monthly Poetry Winners
Fruit of the Earth by Fern Lewis
Athlone Christmas by Joe McEvoy
Ireland on a Sunny Day by Ross Dix-Peek
Moths by Joseph Enright
But Black by Claudia Hoareau
View from my Kitchen Window by Rhoda Twombly
Blue by Luke Morgan
Here by Michelle Holst
Checkmate by Clifford Morrissey
Writing4all Monthly Non-fiction Winners
Backpackers Tales by John Ryan
My Home Town by William Foyle
The View from the Train by Margaret Casserly
The Tokyo Times by David Kennedy
8.1 Earthquake by Fearghus Foyle
Munich by Mark Kelleher
Three Circles by Martin Murphy
Restaurant El Rincon de Diego, Cambrils, Catalonia (Spain) by David Kennedy
The God Hypothesis by Martin Murphy
A Pig’s Tale by Maurice Brosnan
