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