The shortlists for both the Allingham Festival Poetry and Flash Fiction competitions have been announced. Many thanks for all the competition entries. We received a record number this year – 300 poems and 112 flash fiction pieces. There was some serious competition among many talented people! Our judges Jo Holmwood, Brian Leyden, Denise Blake and Annemarie Ní Churreáin certainly had their work cut out for them.
The winners of both competitions will be announced in the coming days. The awards ceremony will take place as part of the Literary Lunch on Saturday November the 9th.
Allingham Poetry Competition 2019 Shortlist
‘A Final Summer Keeps to Other Shapes’ – Tammy Armstrong
‘Animus’ – Attracta Fahey
‘Footing Turf’ – Peggie Caldwell
‘Harbour's Mouth’ – Annette Skade
‘Like Hesperus o'er the western sea’ – Anne Casey
‘Mermaid's Play’ – Blaire Bernstein
‘On Sula Sgeir’ - The Gannet Rock – Lorraine Carey
‘Poetry went into Owl’ – Deirdre Hines
‘Somewhere in the Blue Majestic’ – Vincent Glynn-Steed
‘The Children of Lir’ – Marah Curren
‘The Gift‘ – Trish Bennett
‘The song of lonely places (Hearing voices)’ – Sven Kretzschmar
‘Walking to New Orelans along the banks of the Garavogue’ – Paula Lahiff
‘wishbone’ – Sighle Meehan
wormholes and paradox – Lucy Crispin
Allingham Flash Fiction Competition 2019 Shortlist
‘A Drag Queen Named Lipstick’ – Conor Duggan
‘Boy A and Boy B’ – Clodagh O'Brien
‘Fear of the Known’ – Elizabeth Carter
‘Horsemen’ – Mairead McCann
‘Merrythoughts’ – Marie Gethins
‘My Mr Shakespeare’ – Pauline Clooney
‘Red Sky’ – Tina Pisco
‘Return’ – Claire Loader
‘Second Chances’ – Anne Marie Kennedy
‘Testing’ – Louise G Cole
‘The Mating Call of the Accountant’ – Julian Wakeling
‘Yekaterinburg’ – Marion Coleman
