Interesting Links

Strictly Writing talks about recycling at publishers (screamingly funny)

Irish Writers' Centre announce this month's Lonely Voices, reading their short stories, 31st March.

Also this:

Máighréad Medbh and Paula Meehan

Tuesday 16 March @ 7pm

Poetry Ireland in association with The Blue Leaf Gallery and to celebrate the art exhibition 'Wildly Different Things' (New York and Dublin) presents a reading by Máighréad Medbh and Paula Meehan with Theo Dorgan, Seamus Cashman and many others.

The Observatory, 7-11 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2

And this:

Ciaran Carson and Sinéad Morrissey
Tuesday 16 March @ 8pm

The Market Place Theatre celebrates the 10th Anniversary of its opening, and in association with the John Hewitt Society presents a reading with Northern poets Ciaran Carson and Sinéad Morrissey.

Admission: £6/£5 [conc.]

The Market Place Theatre (Studio), Armagh, Co Armagh

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O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry

The 14th O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry has been awarded to Theo Dorgan, former director of Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann.

The $5,000 O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, established in 1997, honours Irish poets. The award is named for Lawrence O'Shaughnessy, who taught English at St. Thomas from 1948 to 1950, formerly served on the university's board of trustees and is the retired head of the I A O'Shaughnessy Foundation.