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Munster Voices X Five reading 18 Nov
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Southword Creative Non-Fiction Award
1st Prize €1,000 Word Limit: 4,000 wordsClosing date: 31st JanuaryEntry 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.
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Southword Editor’s Flash Fiction Award
Enter: 3 flash fictionsClosing date: 31st January (midnight)Entry fee: €24 Prize €1,000 for the best entry of three flash fictions submission details here Each entrant for their €24 entry fee will receive a complimentary postage-free, one-year subscription to Southword. Flash fictions will be read and judged anonymously. Flash fictions must be previously unpublished. The winning writer will have…
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Southword 51
€12.00, Southword Editions, 2026, 152 pages Southword is a literary journal featuring new writing from around the globe. Issue 51 includes short stories from Ron Rash and Jon Boilard, poems from Audrey Molloy and Dermot Bolger, essays from our Southword Creative Non-Fiction Competition including from Nuala O’Connor, and a photo essay from John Minihan. Subscribe…
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Aneas 7
€12.00, Southword Editions, 2026, 84 leathanach Iris 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 is…
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Southword Poetry Podcast: Stephen Sexton
Episode 32 with Stephen Sexton is now available anywhere you get podcasts Stephen Sexton’s first book, If All the World and Love Were Young was the winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2019 and the Shine / Strong Award for Best First Collection. He was awarded the E.M. Forster Award from…
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Change in festival line-up
Unfortunately, Bret Anthony Johnston is unable to attend the Cork International Short Story Festival as previously advertised. However, we are happy to say that John Patrick McHugh will now be reading alongside Marie-Helene Bertino on 16th October at 9.00pm in the Cork Arts Theatre. John Patrick McHugh is from Galway. His work has appeared in…
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The Farmgate Café National Poetry Award
postal Submissions by publishers accepted until 15 november The award will be €2000 for the best full-length poetry collection published in the previous year (2025) 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. In a year where…
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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
Munster Literature Centre
Ionad Litríochta an Deisceart