Congratulations to the 2024 Winners and Shortlisted Entries as announced at the recent Literary Lunch and listed below.
In response to many requests, you can now read all the winning entries for this year and the last two years on our Competitions page.
POETRY
FIRST PRIZE – Kim - Frank Farrelly
SECOND PRIZE – Little Big Man - Brian Kirk
SHARED THIRD PRIZE – Blood Pear - Heritage Variety – Elaine Desmond
SHARED THIRD PRIZE – Never Mourned - Liam Boyle
SHORTLIST Bless Me Father for I Have Swimmed – Frankie McPhillips Bog Uncles – Gerry O’Donnell Granduncle – Peggy McCarthy Holy – A M Cousins My mother: laughing – Stella Harvey Birrell Tall Boys – Deidre (Deig) Sullivan The Goldfinch – Mary Melvin Geoghogan The Lime Tree – Padraig McLoughlin The More of Less – Deirdre Hines This and That – Eugene O’Hare
FLASH FICTION
FIRST PRIZE – The Questions – Partridge Boswell
SECOND PRIZE - Sunk – Ciaran Cunningham
THIRD PRIZE - Your Heart’s Right There – Jo Nestor
Highly Commended: Big Top – Rachel Smart Jonah – Seamus Harrington Saltwater – Anne Byrne Such Consolations We Find – Jennifer McMahon Terms and Conditions – Jamie D Stacey Unstable – Fiona McKay White Horses – Ruth Mary O’Shea