Entries are invited for The Aindreas McEntee Prize, a writing competition which is open to members of the Society of Irish Medical Writers. The prize will be awarded at the Society’s annual Spring meeting in Belfast in March 2009.
Aindreas, who died after a short illness in January 2005, was a gifted writer and journalist with the Anglo Celt newspaper in Cavan and the Irish Press group where he worked from 1978 to 1995. He was editor of Irish Medical Times from 2000 to 2005 where he was a friend and mentor not only to the staff of the paper but to the doctors who read the paper every week.
He came from a distinguished journalistic family and his brothers John and Myles also worked with the Irish Press group.
There will be only one prize awarded for an original piece of fiction or non-fiction with a medical theme. Entries, which should be original work not published in any other forum either online or offline,should be between 1,000 and 1,500 words in length and must be submitted by e-mail to the address below.
The winning entry will be published in Irish Medical Times and this weblog. The judging panel will include Colin Kerr, former editor of IMT and John McEntee on behalf of the McEntee family.The prize is sponsored by Helix Health and Irish Medical Times are media sponsors of this prestigious prize
Further details of the prize will be announced in IMT in the coming months and on the Society of Irish Medical Writers weblog.
For further information on entering the competition or joining the Society of Irish Medical Writers contact Colin Kerr at kerrcolin@ireland.com or phone 086-0473478.
