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Apply for mentorships in poetry, fiction & memoir
Candidates may apply to a maximum of two mentors, but no successful candidate can receive more than one mentorship. Mentorships will consist of four face-to-face, two-hour sessions. This year, past recipients of mentorships with the Munster Literature Centre may apply again. Apply at southword.submittable.com Deadline: 15 september (midnight) Mentorship in Memoir David McLoghlin is the author…
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Southword Poetry Podcast: Traci Brimhall
Episode 23 with Traci Brimhall is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Traci Brimhall is a professor of creative writing and narrative medicine at Kansas State University. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including Love Prodigal (published November 2024 by Copper Canyon). Her poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Nation,…
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Cork Short Story Festival (15-18 Oct)
The 2025 Cork International Short Story Festival programme is now live on our festival website—and watch out for the print brochure which will start to appear all over the city in September! As one of the few festivals in the world dedicated to the short story, we devote much space to debut authors such as…
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Episode 22 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 22 with Michael O’Loughlin is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Michael O’Loughlin was born in Dublin in 1958 and studied at Trinity College Dublin. He has published six collections of poetry, including Another Nation: New and Selected Poems (1996), In This Life (2011) and Poems: 1980–2015, published by New Island Books (2017). O’Loughlin is a regular contributor to The…
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Fiction Mentorships Bursaries with Frank O’Connor Fellow Laura Jean McKay
Australian author Laura Jean McKay is the 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow. The fellowship is very kindly funded by Cork City Council and is an initiative of the Munster Literature Centre. There is the opportunity for four Munster fiction writers to be mentored by Laura, tuition fees covered, between October and December of…
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Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Open
The Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Competition is now open for entries. €1000 FOR THE BEST ENTRY OF THREE POEMS Each entrant for their €24 entry fee will receive a complimentary postage-free, one-year subscription to Southword. Poems will be read and judged anonymously. Poems must be previously unpublished. The winning poet will have their three poems published…
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Southword Subscribers’ Competition Results
Every year we hold a free-to-enter flash fiction competition and poetry competition exclusively for subscribers to Southword. In April all current subscribers are emailed a link and may submit up to three poems and/or three pieces of flash fiction; winners are published in our summer issue and receive the following: 1st Prize €150, 2nd prize…
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Southword 48 out this month, join us for the launch 15th July
€12.00, Southword Editions, 2025, 118 pages, ISBN: 978-1-915573-15-5 * Issues will be posted at the end of June Southword is a literary journal featuring new writing from around the globe. Issue 48 includes the winning short stories of the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition (judged by Camilla Grudova), the winning poems of the…
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Creative Non-fiction workshop starting 16 July, four weeks only €120
How to Improve Our Memoir or Personal Essays by Learning and Practicing the Core Elements of Creative Non Fiction: a Craft Workshop with David McLoghlin This is an online course through Zoom for those writers who are beginning or revising a project, whether memoir or personal essays. Each two-hour class will be equally divided between…
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Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition Open
The Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition is now open for entries. Page limit: 16 – 24Closing date: 31st August (midnight)Entry fee: €25 per manuscript The competition is open to new, emerging and established poets from any country. At least one of these winners will be the highest scoring manuscript entered by a poet with no solo…