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Award
The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2026
Competition opportunity. Deadline: 2026-09-30
- Type
- Award
- Organizer
- Poetry Ireland
- Deadline
- 30 September 2026
- Where
- Ireland
- Compensation
- 1st prize €1000 plus a week at The Moth Retreat in Ireland, 2nd prize €500, 3rd prize €250
- Disciplines
- writing, poetry, prose
About this opportunity
The Moth Nature Writing Prize awards unpublished pieces of prose or poetry that showcase literary merit and explore the writer's relationship with the natural world. Open globally to individuals over 16, the prize offers monetary rewards and publication in The Irish Times online.
Who can apply
- Open to anyone over the age of sixteen from anywhere in the world, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished.
- Entry fee of €16.