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Southword 48 out this month, join us for the launch 15th July
€12.00, Southword Editions, 2025, 118 pages, ISBN: 978-1-915573-15-5 * Issues will be posted at the end of June Southword is a literary journal featuring new writing from around the globe. Issue 48 includes the winning short stories of the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition (judged by Camilla Grudova), the winning poems of the…
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Creative Non-fiction workshop starting 16 July, four weeks only €120
How to Improve Our Memoir or Personal Essays by Learning and Practicing the Core Elements of Creative Non Fiction: a Craft Workshop with David McLoghlin This is an online course through Zoom for those writers who are beginning or revising a project, whether memoir or personal essays. Each two-hour class will be equally divided between…
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2025 Fool for Poetry chapbooks in our bookshop
The winning chapbooks of the most recent Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition, Superposition by Lauren O’Donovan and Drought / Diagnosis by Liza Katz Duncan are available now.
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Victoria Kennefick wins Farmgate Café National Poetry Award
With sponsorship from one of Cork’s most loved restaurants, the Farmgate Café, this award is €2000 for the best full-length poetry collection in English published in 2024 by a poet residing in Ireland. Judges this year were were Dean Browne, Mary O’Donnell and Maurice Riordan. Limited places are available for a cosy reception at the…
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Farmgate Café National Poetry Award Shortlist
The Farmgate Café National Poetry Award was established in 2019 with sponsorship from one of Cork’s most loved restaurants, The Farmgate Café. The award will be €2000 for the best full-length poetry collection in English (including translations from other languages) published in 2024, by a poet residing in Ireland. In a year where a debut…
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Change in festival lineup
The Cork International Poetry Festival reading of Romalyn Ante & Mary O’Malley at 8.30pm 17th May has been changed. Unfortunately, Romalyn Ante is unable to attend as previously advertised. However, we are happy to say that Theresa Muñoz will now be reading alongside Mary O’Malley. https://www.corkpoetryfest.net/saturday.html Theresa Muñoz was born in Vancouver, Canada and lives in…
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Prebooked Poetry Introductions Readers
friday 16th May, 2.30pm, Cork City Library | Free The Prebooked Poetry Introductions as part of the 2025 Cork International Poetry Festival involves six individuals who have yet to publish a short chapbook or full-length collection of poems. Each poet, chosen through open submission, will read in a ten-minute reading slot. Colm Brennan is poet…
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Laura Jean McKay: 2025 Frank O’Connor Fellow & judge of the Ó Faoláin Competition
Laura Jean McKay has been appointed as this year’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow, which includes a three-month residency in Cork and the delivery of workshops and mentorships. She will also be the judge of the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition, which opens for submissions on 1st May. The opportunity to apply…
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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…
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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.
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