Kilkenny County Council’s Arts Office has announced the launch of the fifth edition of Rhyme Rag, a poetry publication featuring the work of young people.
The Arts Office is now calling for submissions from young people aged between 12 and 21 years. You must be born or based in Kilkenny City or County and no previous writing experience is necessary.
The aim of this publication is to give local young writers a platform for their work. Each piece selected will be included in the Rhyme Rag which will be available throughout the City and County free of charge.
Rhyme Rag Issue 4 saw nineteen poems from young people who have little or no previous writing experience published.
This year Rhyme Rag welcomes Adam Wyeth on board as editor. Adam lives in Kilbrittain, Co Cork. He has been anthologised in the Bisto award winning ‘Something Beginning with P’, (O’Brien Press ) and was a runner-up in the Arvon International Poetry Competition, 2006; the poem was published in their 25th anniversary anthology. He has been published in numerous poetry journals.
Adam Wyeth facilitates various Creative Writing and Poetry Appreciation workshops teaching both children and adults. He is a member of Poetry Ireland’s Writers in Schools Schemes. Currently, he is running workshops at Kinsale Pottery and Arts Centre, and has just finished a Kinsale Arts Week and Cork County Library project, teaching Creative Writing at seven primary schools in and around Kinsale. He has also been a workshop facilitator with the Unfinished Book Project under the auspices of the Cork Library Service, working with transition year students.
Closing date for receipt of submissions is no later than 4pm on Friday May 29.
For rules of submissions and application forms please contact:
Arts Office, No. 72, John Street, Kilkenny on 056 7794138 or e-mail niamh.finn@kilkennycoco.ie.
