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Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition Results
The tied-for-first-prize manuscripts of the Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition are We Fall, We Carry by Róisín Leggett Bohan and Playing Paradise by Katie Hale. Their chapbooks will be published next year and launched at the Cork International Poetry Festival. We have also highlighted the finalists and 21 highly commended entries below. Winners Playing…
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Southword Poetry Podcast: Gerry Murphy
Episode 25 with Gerry Murphy is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Gerry Murphy is an Irish poet, born in Cork in 1952. His first poetry collection was A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards (1985, 1992). He has since published many collections with The Dedalus Press including Rio de la Plata and All That (1993), The Empty Quarter (1995), Extracts from the…
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1961: Frank O’Connor’s Cork | Monitor BBC Broadcast
Frank O’Connor, the celebrated Irish short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and poet, revisits the city of his birth, where he lived for twenty-eight years and which provides the setting or inspiration for many of his stories. He speaks to Huw Wheldon about what Cork means to him, reflects on his childhood there and why he left.…
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Southword Poetry Podcast: David Nash
Episode 24 with David Nash is now available anywhere you get podcasts. David Nash was born in Co. Cork and lives between Ireland and Chile. His work is widely published in journals, and his texts have appeared in numerous art exhibitions and books, including for Wolfgang Tillmans at IMMA. A Spanish-language children’s book, Bajo Mis Pies,…
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Statement in Support of Sally Rooney
We at The Munster Literature Centre express our unequivocal support for the position which author Sally Rooney has taken in using her platform to advocate for free speech. We vehemently reject the distortion of the definition of ‘terrorism’ to include non-violent manifestations of civic protest, which is one of the cornerstones of a free, democratic…
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Order Southword 49, Cork launch 21st November
21st November, 6.30 p.m., CTC space Triskel Arts Centre as part of the Winter Warmer Festival The winter issue of Southword includes, as well as poetry and fiction, the winner and runners up from our Creative Non-Fiction Award. Join us for a glass of wine at the launch of issue 49 with readings from some…
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Aneas 6
€12.00, Southword Editions, 2025, 81 leathanach Iris nua 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…
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Macedonian Bursary for Cork Poets
Submit here Deadline 31st October The Munster Literature Centre will provide annual sponsorship of 750 euro as follows: The Cork poet must be a poet who has not read at a Macedonian poetry festival already. The Cork poet must have published at least one poetry chapbook, either published by a reputable publisher or a self-published…
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Online Fiction Workshop with Laura Jean McKay
Join Frank O’Connor Fellow Laura Jean McKay to journey through the short story form – idea, character, voice and editing. This practical four-week workshop series will take apart the short story form, using examples from Laura’s and other authors’ works. Through readings, discussion and workshopping, participants will work together to celebrate and explore the precise,…
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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. The judges this year…