Munster Literature Centre

Louise Hegarty will judge this year’s Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition, which is open for submissions until 31st July. First prize includes €2000 and a featured reading at the 

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 in the spring and may submit up to three poems and/or three pieces of flash fiction; it is...

Throughout the course, each class will begin with a discussion of a specific aspect of poetic craft and include generative writing exercises designed to inspire new work. Students will also participate in workshops of their poems each week. In addition, participants will receive a packet of poems to read and will be encouraged to write a new poem in response to each week’s th...

Shanyang Fang, the inaugural Cork International Poetry Fellow will be available during the months of June and July for mentoring sessions. Mr Fang will mentor three individuals, meeting each for three different sessions lasting two hours to discuss their poems. Eligible applicants for this mentorship must live in Munster and must not be receiving other mentoring through the M...

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 2025 by a poet residing in Ireland. 55 valid entries were received. This year’s judges were the poets Ailbhe Darcy, Maya C. Popa and Thomas Dillon Redshaw. The shortlist in alphabetical order: After Part...