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2024 Mentorship Bursary Recipients selected
Mentorships, applied for through open submission, have been awarded to seven writers living in Munster. Mentorship in Children’s Fiction for Children or Young Adults with Eibhlís Carcione – Bursary recipients: Erin Connally Erin Connally is a writer and illustrator who has recently completed her MA in Creative Writing at University College Cork. Her writing and…
Southword Festival Review Prize
The Munster Literature Centre is offering prizes for the best reviews of the 2024 Cork International Short Story Festival, written by a current student of University College Cork. First Prize €350 Second Prize €150 The review must refer to at least four events, but the more comprehensive the better. There is no word limit. Either…
Fiction Workshop with Camilla Grudova
Fiction Workshop with Camilla Grudova on Zoom 4-week workshop on Tuesdays €150 Registration 15 places available Contact info@munsterlit.ie to book (a personalised invoice will be sent by email) Prospectus Week 1 & 2 – Writing and the Five Senses This two-part workshop will explore how engaging all five senses (taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing)…
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…
Episode 16 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 16 with Deborah Paredez is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Deborah Paredez is a poet and cultural critic. She is the author of the poetry volumes This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020), and the critical study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke UP, 2009). Her poetry and essays…
Culture Night: Archive Videos at the MLC 4-6pm
We are presenting video archives at the Munster Literature Centre, 84 Douglas street for Culture Night, 20th September. The showing will include interviews and readings from the likes of Frank O’Connor and Edna O’Brien. Drop in any time from 4 – 6 p.m.
Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition Results
The first prize winner of the 2024 Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition, Jack Kennedy, will read his winning story on 19th October 2024 at the Cork International Short Story Festival. The first prize, second prize, and shortlisted stories will be published in Southword (summer 2025). Camilla Grudova was the 2024 judge. First Prize…
Southword Editor’s Poetry Award: 30 Sept deadline
Deadline 30 September. Full guidelines here.
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 or €30 for a batch of five 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,…
Frank O’Connor Fellow Mentees Selected
Mentorships with this year’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow, Camilla Grudova, applied for through open submission, have been awarded to four writers living in Munster. Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow: Camilla Grudova Camilla Grudova lives in Edinburgh. Her critically acclaimed debut collection, The Doll’s Alphabet, was published in 2017. Her first novel, Children of Paradise, was…