Emerging Writer

I went along to the New Irish Writing awards on Tuesday held at the French Ambassador's residence on Ailesbury Road, possibly the mos...

The Guardian has done a wonderful job of highlighting all the poets who have won the prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry. But it does s...

Poets Meet Painters 2011 The anthology of the successful entries from this year's competition was launched at a reception and reading ...

I missed this earlier The New Writing Page, still edited by Ciaran Carty, appears in Weekend Review in the Irish Independent on the last S...

Yes it's true. As the super sleuth team of Peter Goulding and Michael Farry have already found, I have won the Plough Poetry Prize in ...

A huge entry for this last Autumn. Here's the shortlist via the lovely and talented Niamh Boyce who got it from Brigid O'Connor at ...

The shortlist for this radio play competition was announced on Friday's Arena programme. 17 out of a total 135 submitted. I personally d...

Oh look, they're all women. Oh yeah 1st Prize: Love: A Painting by Sarah Klenbort 2nd Prize: The Journey by Anne Bentley 3rd Prize:...

I don't know why I would bother entering this. The winners are real poetry heavyweights. 1st Helen Dunmore, Orange Prize winner for ...

Uiscebots, that well known promoter of positive discimination for women and thoroughly nice guy, pointed out a possible bias in poetry compe...

1st Prize £2,000 2nd Prize £1,000 3rd Prize £500 10 Supplementary Prizes of £50 All poems will be published in Iota 88. "Here i...

The Salt Publishing Crashaw Prize received and read 120 full length manuscripts from poets in the UK and Ireland, the USA, Australia and Ne...

From the organisers. A father’s embarrassment in not being able to ride a bike; a child’s pleading to go for a cycle with his Dad; ‘proper...

The Bridport short story and poetry results are out. There are a few Irish addresses for those who are interested. I didn't recognise a...

Some familiar names here. Congratulations John O’Donnell, Dublin for his poem - The Blue Man Cecilia McGovern, Dublin for her poem - It is D...

I've read a couple of these anthologies (for UK resident women writers) and there are some great stories, maybe a little gloomy in the m...

David Mohan won (again - a great year for David) in the poetry category for his poems 'Nursing a Star', 'Come to Light' and...

I didn't win. Imagine! Snubbed again. No familiar names on the list for me. ADULT POETRY COMPETITION (Over 18) Judge: Vona Groarke 1s...

There's a really interesting judge's report from Ruth Padel on the Mslexia website about the entries from the Poetry Competition. (...

This year, more than 800 entries were received, all of which were read in an anonymous process by a panel of readers. A longlist of 30 was t...