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Southword Poetry Podcast: Máighréad Medbh
Episode 31 with Máighréad Medbh is now available anywhere you get podcasts Máighréad Medbh is a poet and prose writer with nine published books. Most of her poetry books are long-form sequences or narratives, and her ecological verse novel, Parvit of Agelast (Arlen House), was shortlisted for the 2017 Pigott Prize. After her first book…
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Short Fiction Workshop with Zsuzsi Gartner
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Creative Non-Fiction Workshop with David McLoghlin
How to Improve Your Memoir or Personal Essays by Learning and Practicing the Core Elements of Creative Non Fiction: a Craft Workshop with David McLoghlin This is a course for those writers who are beginning or revising a project, whether memoir or personal essays. Each two-hour class will be equally divided between creative writing workshop…
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Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition Results
The first prize winner of the 2026 Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition, Martin Jackson, will read his winning story on 17th October at the Cork International Short Story Festival. The first prize, second prize, and shortlisted stories will be published in issue 52 of Southword (summer 2027). Louise Hegarty was the judge and…
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Southword Poetry Podcast: Jericho Brown
Episode 30 with Jericho Brown is now available anywhere you get podcasts Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please…
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Culture Night: Munster Literature Centre Readings
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O’Donoghue Poetry Competition Open
The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition is now open for entries. Line limit: 40Closing date: 30th NovemberEntry fee: €7 per poem The competition is open to original, unpublished poems in the English language of 40 lines or fewer. The poem can be on any subject, in any style, by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. We are…
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Visible Poetry Competition
Kemi George-Simpsons is running a poetry competition in collaboration with Cork City Libraries, an overflow from her excellent Black History Month literary events, and conducted in response to the rise of anti-immigration and anti-multicultural sentiment and violence. It opened on August 1st and closes on September 11th, and the link for competition details is via…
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Mentorships with O’Connor Short Story Fellow Zsuzsi Gartner
Canadian author Zsuzsi Gartner is the 2026 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 Gartner, tuition fees covered, between September and November of this…
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Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Open
Enter: 3 poemsClosing date: 30th September (midnight)Entry fee: €24 Prize €1,000 for the best entry of three poems submission details here 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 in Southword.…
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