Camilla Grudova has been appointed as this year’s Frank O’Connor Short Story Fellow, which includes a three-month residency in Cork (mentorship opportunities soon!). She will also be the judge of the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition, open for submissions on 1st May.

Calling all bookworms! 📚✨

Dive into a day filled with literary delights at Elizabeth Fort on Sunday 28 April from 1.00 pm -6.15 pm. From the pop-up book fair to poetry s.o.s sessions and even a book doctor, there's something for all to enjoy.

#CorkWorldBookFestival

We're all set to go at Cork City Libraries for the launch of the Cork World Book Fest 2024. Its going to be a fabulous week of books, books, books. Doire Press The Gallery Press HarvillSecker Vintage Books Blackstaff Press Banshee Press Mercier Press Books Triskel Arts Centre Cork City Council #cork

'The Tower of Word' 📚 One can find printed brochures for the Cork World Book Fest + Cork International Poetry Festival + West Cork Literary Festival all freely available at Cork City Library on Grand Parade, where at 7pm the Lord Mayor will officially launch the 20th CWBF.

'The body of this work promises blood, and brutality, and ridiculousness, plus every mistake anyone has ever made fletched through with gold.' – Shivanee Ramlochan

Episode 12 of the Southword Poetry Podcast featuring Abigail Parry out now!

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The winning chapbooks of the most recent Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition, Levis Corner House by Partridge Boswell and Ghost Sojourn by Gwen Sayers are available now. They will be launched at the Cork International Poetry Festival on Saturday 18th May. munsterlit.ie/bookshop/

Cork World Book Fest starts tomorrow! 📚 ✨

There is still plenty of time to grab a book by the exceptional writers participating in the festival from your local branch of Cork City Libraries.

What event are you most looking forward to?

#CorkCityLibraries #CWBF24

The five words for 23rd - 30th April 2024 are:

jacket ~ prefer ~ brace ~ cubic ~ camera

Submission guidelines: obheal.ie/fivewordscomp

Poetry Ireland
Munster Literature Centre
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

#Five #Words #Poetry #Competition

Photo by Brendan Duffin

Mike McCormack comes from the west of Ireland and is the author of two collections of short stories.

Aingeala Flannery Aingeala Flannery 🇵🇸 is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and writer.

Sarah Harte is a prize-winning author of short stories both in Ireland and the UK.

Miriam Gamble’s Little Acts of Vigilance is her debut essay collection.

James O’Leary is a poet from Cork. His latest chapbook is Sacrament of the Sick.

Molly Twomey's debut collection, Raised Among Vultures, won the Southword Debut Collection Poetry Award.

Ann Luttrell and Liam Ronayne spoke with @ColSheridan about that very first festival and how it's grown in the last 20 years. buff.ly/4b5OdZ6

Great article here about Heather Treseler, whose chapbook we published in 2020 and who will be joining us for #corkpoetryfest on 16th May with her new collection, Auguries & Divinations eu.worcestermag.com/story/entertai…

Delighted to be performing at the #Cork Poetry Festival next month for the wonderful Munster Literature Centre. can't wait to share the stage with Gustav Parker Hibbett. More details here: corkpoetryfest.net/programme.html

'BIG LOVE'
Such a beautiful poem by Michael Martin in Munster Literature Centre's Southword 45
'A toast if you will to the young fellow
giving Abstract Art one last chance'
🪄🖤✨️
Munster Literature Centre

A conversation with Gustav Parker Hibbett universitytimes.ie/2024/04/in-con… and the first review of Kerry Hardie's We Go On thehighwindowpress.com/2024/04/11/the… who are both reading at #corkpoetryfest corkpoetryfest.net/index.html

Frank O’Conner & Sean Ó Faolain were Corkery’s most renowned protégés but also his most ardent critics.

At the Corkery 100 conference, Dr Patrick Maume & Conal Creedon will explore Cork in this era & how Corkery shaped Irish intellectual life.

#Corkery100

Poet Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh reads from her work at Dungarvan Library for #PoetryDayIrl

Thursday 25th of April at 7pm📖

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We & our authors have lots of great events coming up this year, so we've added an events page to the website. Watch this space – lots more to be added soon! Cork World Book Fest Munster Literature Centre Writers' Week West Cork Literary Festival Gustav Parker Hibbett

bansheepress.org/events