Shortlists and winning entries for the 2024 Allingham Poetry and Flash Fiction Competitions have been selected by judges Kate Newmann and Nuala O’Connor. Winners have already been informed and they will read their work at the Awards Ceremony on Saturday 9 November. Shortlistees and winners include:
POETRY
Bless Me Father For I Have Swimmed – Frankie McPhillips
Blood Pear - Heritage Variety – Elaine Desmond
Bog Uncles – Gerry O’Donnell
Granduncle – Peggy McCarthy
Holy – A M Cousins
Kim – Frank Farrelly
Little Big Man – Brian Kirk
My mother: laughing – Stella Harvey Birrell
Never Mourned – Liam Boyle
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
Big Top – Rachel Smart
Jonah – Seamus Harrington
Saltwater – Anne Byrne
Such Consolations We Find – Jennifer McMahon
Sunk – Ciaran Cunningham
Terms and Conditions – Jamie D Stacey
The Questions – Partridge Boswell
Unstable – Fiona McKay
White Horses – Ruth Mary O’Shea
Your Heart’s Right There – Jo Nestor
The Awards Ceremony will take place at the Literary Lunch in the Nirvana Restaurant, Ballyshannon on Saturday, 9 Nov. Admission is free; an optional buffet lunch is available at €20 per ticket.
Noon – Ongoing: Buffet Lunch
12:30 – 1:30: Awards Ceremony
1:30 – 2:00 Book Launch: Pool of Darkenss – Raymond Chandler in Ireland by Tom Sigafoos
