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Southword Subscribers’ Competition Results
Every year we hold a free-to-enter flash fiction competition and poetry competition exclusively for subscribers to Southword. For each category, all current subscribers are emailed a link and may submit up to three poems and/or three pieces of flash fiction; winners are published in our summer issue and receive the following: 1st Prize €150, 2nd prize €100, 3rd prize €75. This year’s winners are as follows, and will appear in issue 44, published in early July this year:
Subscriber Flash Fiction Competition
1st Prize
Cans by Adrian Martin
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Adrian Martin is a middle-aged fiction writing enthusiast who is slowly working his way into short stories before an obligatory novel.
2nd Prize
The Trees by Lauren O’Donovan
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Lauren O’Donovan has an MA in Creative Writing from UCC. She won the Cúirt New Writing Prize in Poetry 2023.
3rd Prize
A Bland Farewell by Radhika Iyer
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Radhika Iyer writes fiction and creative non-fiction. She has published a collection of short stories entitled Why Are You Here?
Subscriber Poetry Competition
1st Prize
Another Coming by Jamie O’Halloran
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Jamie O’Halloran’s Corona Connemara and Half a Crown is a Fool for Poetry Chapbook. She lives in Connemara.
2nd Prize
Stepping Over Bodies on My Way to Work by Eoin Cahill
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Eoin Cahill’s poems have recently appeared in Cork Words 3 and Black Bough Poetry. Find him on Twitter @eoinspoems.
3rd Prize
In My Dream About the Old House by Lucy Holme
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Lucy Holme lives in Cork City. Her debut chapbook Temporary Stasis was published in 2022 by Broken Sleep Books.