2024 Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Result

Lucy Holme lives in Cork City. Her work features in PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Banshee, and The Pig’s Back amongst others. She was a runner-up in the Southword Literary Essay Competition and Brotherton Poetry Prize, and was the winner of the Cúirt New Writing Prize for Poetry 2024. Her debut chapbook, Temporary Stasis was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Award. She is currently studying for a PhD in poetry at University College Cork where she also teaches memoir and poetry.