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Southword Editor’s Poetry Award: Two weeks till deadline
The Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Competition is open for entries until the end of September €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 Poems must be previously unpublished.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…
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Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition Results
The first prize winner of the 2025 Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition, Tim Collyer, will read his winning story on 18th October at the Cork International Short Story Festival. The first prize, second prize, and shortlisted stories will be published in Southword (summer 2026). Laura Jean McKay was the judge and she kindly…
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Dean Browne to judge O’Donoghue Poetry competition
Competition prize and submission details here Dean Browne is an award-winning poet from Co. Tipperary, Ireland. His debut collection After Party is published by Picador and is a Poetry Society Recommendation. Browne received the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021, and his pamphlet, Kitchens at Night, won the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition; it is published…
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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 a…
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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…