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News & Cork Concerts
As we draw towards the close of the year, preparations are in full swing for the 2020 festivals. West Cork Music continues to be busy with Tuning Up music-in-schools workshops and has also recently announced the 13th West Cork Chamber Music Young Composers' Competition. Find out more about this competition as well as concerts taking place in County Cork in the coming weeks.
Call for Scores 2020
String Quartet Composition Competition for Irish citizens/residents under 35 - Call for Scores news
Winners Announced!
Congratulations to the winners of our 2019 Composition Competition – Timothy Ethan Doyle, inti figgis-vizueta, Robin Haigh and James May.
2019 JG Farrell Fiction Award
The J.G. Farrell Fiction Award 2019 – for the best opening chapter of a novel-in-progress by a writer resident in Munster – will this year be adjudicated by novelist Anjali Joseph.
Workshops and Awards
We are delighted to announce this year's Novel Writing workshop at the 2019 West Cork Literary Festival. Online booking for this workshop is now open.We can also announce the details of the 2019 J G Farrell Award.
