Extracts from recent winners

Dominion
Ride If You Dare
The Sound of Many Waters

Poems from recent winners

Oranges
System
Regaining Paradise

The competition carries prizemoney of IR£350: First Prize winners IR£100, Second Prize winners IR£50, Third Prize Winners IR£25. In addition the winning stories and poems are published in New Series: Departures Vol. 4.

Previous judges include:
Rita Kelly
John Doorty
Maeve Kelly
Kate Thompson
John Liddy
Katy Hayes
Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Frank Golden
Jo Slade

	Judge: John Saul
	First - Short Story
		"Made You Look" by Valerie Sirr, Dublin
	Second - Short Story	
		"Petty Doom" by Peter Paul Sweeney, Dublin
	Third - Short Story
		"On the Verge" by Deirdre Devally, Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare

	Judge: Moya Cannon
	First - Poem
		"Teaching English in a Coastal Classroom" by Tom French, 
		Dublin 
	Second - Poem
		"Hay Fever" by Noel King, Tralee, Co. Kerry
	Third - Poem
		"In the Walled Garden" by Hugh O'Donnell, Ballinakill, Co. Laois
	
	The winners of the 1999 Nora Fahy Literary Awards in Short Story and Poetry
	were announced recently in Co. Clare. The annual awards, promoted by the
	Clare-based literary journal, New Series: Departures (established in 1987) 
	is organised by its founder and editor John Doorty, and associate editors,
	Edna Faye Kiel, Knute Skinner.