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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… Read more: Farmgate Café National Poetry Award Shortlist - 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… Read more: Change in festival lineup - 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… Read more: Prebooked Poetry Introductions Readers - Aneas: Glaoch idir 1 Aibreán agus 1 Bealtaine
Cuirfidh an iris bhliantúil litríochta Gaeilge Aneas fáilte roimh ábhar don ó scríbhneoirí na Gaeilge idir 1 Aibreán agus 1 Bealtaine. Dánta agus gearrscéalta amháin atáthar ag glacadh leo faoi láthair. Ní mór don ábhar a bheith neamhfhoilsithe. Cuirfear fáilte roimh ábhar ó scríbhneoirí bunaithe agus guthanna nua araon. Díolfar €40 ar gach dán agus €200 ar gach… Read more: Aneas: Glaoch idir 1 Aibreán agus 1 Bealtaine - 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… Read more: Laura Jean McKay: 2025 Frank O’Connor Fellow & judge of the Ó Faoláin Competition - 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… Read more: Submit: Prebooked Poetry Readings at the Cork International Poetry Festival - 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. - Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition Results
The winning chapbooks of the Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition are Superposition by Lauren O’Donovan and Drought / Diagnosis by Liza Katz Duncan. We have also highlighted the finalists and highly commended entries below. Their chapbooks will be launched on 17th May at the 2025 Cork International Poetry Festival. 1st Prize Superposition by Lauren O’Donovan Cork, Ireland… Read more: Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition Results - Gregory O’Donoghue Competition Results
The winner of the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition, Lani O’Hanlon, will read her winning poem Dancing with Thierry Thieu Niang along with a selection of her other work on 17th May at the 2025 Cork International Poetry Festival. Below, we have highlighted the first, second and third prize winners as well as (in alphabetical order) finalists… Read more: Gregory O’Donoghue Competition Results - Cacti & other poems by Jerm Curtin, new poetry chapbook
The latest in our New Irish Voices series is now available from Southword Editions. Jerm Curtin is originally from Co. Cork but lives in Spain. He received the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2021, and the Cúirt International Festival of Literature’s New Writing Prize for Poetry in 2020. He also won the Listowel Writers’ Week Single… Read more: Cacti & other poems by Jerm Curtin, new poetry chapbook - Episode 20 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 20 with Matthew Dickman is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Matthew Dickman grew up in Lents, a working-class area of Portland, Oregon. He earned a BA at the University of Oregon and an MFA at the University of Texas-Austin’s Michener Center. He is the author of the poetry collections Husbandry (2022), Wonderland (2018),… Read more: Episode 20 of the Southword Poetry Podcast - Submission dates for Southword
Unsolicited submissions of poetry and short fiction (for our 2025 winter issue) are open as follows: POETRY: 1st ‒ 31st January FICTION: 1st ‒ 28th February Our Submittable account limit means that we can only receive 1000 submissions per month, so if we reach this limit before the end of January (for poetry) or February… Read more: Submission dates for Southword - Episode 19 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 19 with John W. Sexton is now available anywhere you get podcasts. John W. Sexton was born in 1958 and identifies with the Aisling poetic tradition. His work spans vision poetry, contemporary fabulism and tangential surrealism. He is the author of seven poetry collections including The Offspring of the Moon (Salmon Poetry 2013), Futures Pass (Salmon Poetry 2018), Visions… Read more: Episode 19 of the Southword Poetry Podcast - The Farmgate Café National Poetry Award
postal Submissions by publishers accepted 9 – 30 January 2025 The award will be €2000 for the best full-length poetry collection published in the previous year (2024) 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… Read more: The Farmgate Café National Poetry Award - Episode 18 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 18 with Gail McConnell is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Gail McConnell is from Belfast. She is the author of of The Sun is Open (Penned in the Margins, 2021) and two poetry pamphlets: Fothermather (Ink Sweat & Tears, 2019) and Fourteen (Green Bottle Press, 2018). Fothermather was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. Gail’s poems have appeared in The Poetry… Read more: Episode 18 of the Southword Poetry Podcast - Aneas 5
€12.00, Southword Editions, 2024, 80 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… Read more: Aneas 5 - Southword Festival Review winner
This year the Munster Literature Centre offered prizes for the best reviews of the 2024 Cork International Short Story Festival, written by a current student of University College Cork. The winner, Kyle Barron, received a first prize of €350. Kyle Barron’s interest in literature began in 5th year after reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He entered, and… Read more: Southword Festival Review winner - Southword 47 out now
€12.00, Southword Editions, 2024, 130 pages Southword is a literary journal featuring new writing from around the globe. Issue 47 includes short stories from David W. Berner and Natalia Theodoridou, poems from Jonathan Edwards and Fred Johnston, and essays from our Southword Literary Essay Competition by Camille Louise Goering and Fiona O’Rourke. Subscribe and order back… Read more: Southword 47 out now - Episode 17 of the Southword Poetry Podcast
Episode 17 with Paisley Rekdal is now available anywhere you get podcasts. Paisley Rekdal grew up in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a Chinese American mother and a Norwegian father. She earned a BA from the University of Washington, an MA from the University of Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies, and an MFA from the… Read more: Episode 17 of the Southword Poetry Podcast - 2024 Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Result
This year’s Southword Editor’s Poetry Award has been won by Lucy Holme for the best entry of three poems. The winning poems will be published in Southword 48 (summer 2025) and she will receive €1000. Each entrant for their €24 entry fee will receive a complimentary postage-free, one-year subscription to Southword. Winner Lucy Holme Lucy Holme… Read more: 2024 Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Result