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Submit: Prebooked Poetry Readings at the Cork International Poetry Festival
This is your opportunity to apply for one of six reading slots available at the Prebooked Poetry Introductions reading at 2.30pm on Friday 16th May 2025, in Cork City Library as part of the Cork International Poetry Festival. Each poet will have the opportunity to read in a ten-minute reading slot and receive an honorarium…
Southword Creative Non-Fiction Award
1st Prize €1,000 Word Limit: 4,000 wordsClosing date: 30th June (midnight)Entry fee: €20 We are looking for compelling writing, as memoir or as innovative essays or as an admixture of both. Simon Van Booy, Sandra Beasley, Thomas Lynch, Kim Addonizio & Yoko Tawada have all published creative non-fiction in Southword, why not join that illustrious company? Full guidelines here.
Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition Results
The winning chapbooks of the Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition are Superposition by Lauren O’Donovan and Drought / Diagnosis by Liza Katz Duncan. We have also highlighted the finalists and highly commended entries below. Their chapbooks will be launched on 17th May at the 2025 Cork International Poetry Festival. 1st Prize Superposition by Lauren O’Donovan Cork, Ireland…
Gregory O’Donoghue Competition Results
The winner of the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition, Lani O’Hanlon, will read her winning poem Dancing with Thierry Thieu Niang along with a selection of her other work on 17th May at the 2025 Cork International Poetry Festival. Below, we have highlighted the first, second and third prize winners as well as (in alphabetical order) finalists…
Cacti & other poems by Jerm Curtin, new poetry chapbook
The latest in our New Irish Voices series is now available from Southword Editions. Jerm Curtin is originally from Co. Cork but lives in Spain. He received the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2021, and the Cúirt International Festival of Literature’s New Writing Prize for Poetry in 2020. He also won the Listowel Writers’ Week Single…
Episode 20 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 20 with Matthew Dickman is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Matthew Dickman grew up in Lents, a working-class area of Portland, Oregon. He earned a BA at the University of Oregon and an MFA at the University of Texas-Austin’s Michener Center. He is the author of the poetry collections Husbandry (2022), Wonderland (2018),…
Submission dates for Southword
Unsolicited submissions of poetry and short fiction (for our 2025 winter issue) are open as follows: POETRY: 1st ‒ 31st January FICTION: 1st ‒ 28th February Our Submittable account limit means that we can only receive 1000 submissions per month, so if we reach this limit before the end of January (for poetry) or February…
Episode 19 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 19 with John W. Sexton is now available anywhere you get podcasts. John W. Sexton was born in 1958 and identifies with the Aisling poetic tradition. His work spans vision poetry, contemporary fabulism and tangential surrealism. He is the author of seven poetry collections including The Offspring of the Moon (Salmon Poetry 2013), Futures Pass (Salmon Poetry 2018), Visions…
The Farmgate Café National Poetry Award
postal Submissions by publishers accepted 9 – 30 January 2025 The award will be €2000 for the best full-length poetry collection published in the previous year (2024) by a poet residing in Ireland. All entered books must be in English. Translations will be accepted as long as the translated poet resides in Ireland. The judges…
Episode 18 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 18 with Gail McConnell is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Gail McConnell is from Belfast. She is the author of of The Sun is Open (Penned in the Margins, 2021) and two poetry pamphlets: Fothermather (Ink Sweat & Tears, 2019) and Fourteen (Green Bottle Press, 2018). Fothermather was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. Gail’s poems have appeared in The Poetry…