Southword 48

12.00

* Issues will be posted at the end of June

Southword Editions, 2025, 118 pages
ISBN: 978-1-915573-15-5

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 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition (judged by Mary O’Malley), and winners of the Southword Subscribers’ Poetry and Flash Fiction Competitions, as well as other short stories and poems.

Description

Southword Editor’s Poetry Award

Lucy Holme

Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition

1st Prize: Lani O’Hanlon
2nd Prize: Ray Malone
3rd Prize: Clive McWilliam
Shortlist: Anne Connolly, Kurt Luchs, Joanne McCarthy, Paul McMahon, Elisabeth Murawski, Jenny Pollak, Réré Ukponu, Roger West

Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition

1st Prize: Jack Kennedy
2nd Prize: Rowe Irvin
Shortlist: Eamon Doggett, Dillon Jaxx, Zoë Meager

Poems

Kosoluchi Agboanike, Dean Browne, Eithne Carson, Pratibha Castle, Eithne Cavanagh, Polina Cosgrave, John F. Deane, Ajla Dizdarević, John FitzGerald, Nicola Geddes, Jake M.M. Griffin, Emilie Jelinek, Kasimma, Emily Anna King (锡萍芳), Kapu Lewis, Aoife Lyall, Simon Maddrell, Lorraine McArdle, Sinéad McClure, David McLoghlin, Jenny Mitchell, Jennifer Nevergole, Mary O’Donnell, Brian Obiri-Asare, Jane Satterfield, Colm Scully, Dechen Shaw, Stephen Spratt, Paul Sutherland, Molly Twomey, Julijana Velichkovska, Stuart Watson

Subscriber Flash Fiction Competition

1st Prize: Partridge Boswell
2nd Prize: Gary Finnegan
3rd Prize: Mary Shovelin

Subscriber Poetry Competition

1st Prize: Jenny Mitchell
2nd Prize: Treasa Purcell
3rd Prize: Róisín Leggett Bohan

Cover Image

‘The Rook’s Funeral’ by Fidelma Massey