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Aneas 5
€12.00, Southword Editions, 2024, 80 leathanach Iris nua bhliantúil atá tiomnaithe go hiomlán don gcuid is fearr de litríocht chomhaimseartha na Gaeilge í Aneas, iris a léiríonn go bhfuil neart, ealaín, pléasúr agus tathag fós ag baint le litríocht na teanga sinseartha sa tír seo. Laistigh dá clúdach geobhair filíocht, gearrscéalta agus léirmheasanna doimhne ó na scríbhneoirí…
Southword Festival Review winner
This year the Munster Literature Centre offered prizes for the best reviews of the 2024 Cork International Short Story Festival, written by a current student of University College Cork. The winner, Kyle Barron, received a first prize of €350. Kyle Barron’s interest in literature began in 5th year after reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He entered, and…
Southword 47 out now
€12.00, Southword Editions, 2024, 130 pages Southword is a literary journal featuring new writing from around the globe. Issue 47 includes short stories from David W. Berner and Natalia Theodoridou, poems from Jonathan Edwards and Fred Johnston, and essays from our Southword Literary Essay Competition by Camille Louise Goering and Fiona O’Rourke. Subscribe and order back…
Episode 17 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 17 with Paisley Rekdal is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Paisley Rekdal grew up in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a Chinese American mother and a Norwegian father. She earned a BA from the University of Washington, an MA from the University of Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies, and an MFA from the…
2024 Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Result
This year’s Southword Editor’s Poetry Award has been won by Lucy Holme for the best entry of three poems. The winning poems will be published in Southword 48 (summer 2025) and she will receive €1000. Each entrant for their €24 entry fee will receive a complimentary postage-free, one-year subscription to Southword. Winner Lucy Holme Lucy Holme…
2024 Mentorship Bursary Recipients selected
Mentorships, applied for through open submission, have been awarded to seven writers living in Munster. Mentorship in Children’s Fiction for Children or Young Adults with Eibhlís Carcione – Bursary recipients: Erin Connally Erin Connally is a writer and illustrator who has recently completed her MA in Creative Writing at University College Cork. Her writing and…
Southword Festival Review Prize
The Munster Literature Centre is offering prizes for the best reviews of the 2024 Cork International Short Story Festival, written by a current student of University College Cork. First Prize €350 Second Prize €150 The review must refer to at least four events, but the more comprehensive the better. There is no word limit. Either…
Fiction Workshop with Camilla Grudova
Fiction Workshop with Camilla Grudova on Zoom 4-week workshop on Tuesdays €150 Registration 15 places available Contact info@munsterlit.ie to book (a personalised invoice will be sent by email) Prospectus Week 1 & 2 – Writing and the Five Senses This two-part workshop will explore how engaging all five senses (taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing)…
Macedonian Bursary for Cork Poets
Submit here Deadline 31st October The Munster Literature Centre will provide annual sponsorship of 750 euro as follows: The Cork poet must be a poet who has not read at a Macedonian poetry festival already. The Cork poet must have published at least one poetry chapbook, either published by a reputable publisher or a self-published…
Episode 16 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 16 with Deborah Paredez is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Deborah Paredez is a poet and cultural critic. She is the author of the poetry volumes This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020), and the critical study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke UP, 2009). Her poetry and essays…