Thanks to all the poets and writers out there who entered their work into this year's Allingham Poetry & Flash Fiction competitions. Both competitions are now closed to entry as the shortlisting process begins. News relating to the competitions will be posted on our website, Facebook and Twitter in coming weeks. Best of luck to all!
The absolute final deadline for entries to the Allingham Arts Poetry & Flash Fiction has been extended to Friday the 23rd of September for entries by post and midday on Sunday the 25th of September for online entries.
Entry rules can be found here: www.allinghamfestival.com/fiction-poetry-competitions/
Entries can be posted to the following address:
Allingham Fiction/Poetry, Allingham Festival Office, Lakeside Centre, Belleek Road, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal.
You can upload your entries via our online system here: www.allinghamfestival.com/online-entry/
Best of luck everyone!
Congratulations to Garry Keane and Jamie D'Alton/Motive Television on their nominations in this year's IFTAs! 'Toughest Place To Be...', produced by Jamie D'Alton's Motive production company and directed by Garry, has been nominated in the Reality category. If that weren't enough, Garry gets another nod in the newly introduced Specialist Factual category as the director of 'Bypassed'.
The nominations have been shortlisted by Members of the Irish Academy along with Irish and international Jury panels of industry experts. The winners will be announced at the Double Tree Hotel in Dublin on Friday, 7th October 2016.
Great work guys, and don't forget to bring you awards with you for the screening of 'Toughest Place To Be...' in Allingham 2016!
We were delighted to hear poet Mick Delap on tonight's RTÉ Poetry Programme reading from his latest collection 'Opening Time', and discussing his love of sailing, amongst other things. Mick will be joining us in Ballyshannon for a reading on Friday November 4th, and if his contribution to the Poetry Programme is anything to go by, this is one definitely not to be missed! In fact this will be a homecoming of sorts for Mick as he is descended from the Delaps of Ballyshannon, whose estate used to include the area now occupied by Dicey Reilly's.
We are delighted to announce that poet Afric McGlinchey will be taking part in this year's Allingham Festival. Afric will host a poetry writing workshop and will read from her work over the weekend. In addition, she will act as judge in the Allingham Poetry competition.
Afric McGlinchey grew up in Ireland and Africa, moving frequently during her childhood and early adult years. She won the Hennessy Poetry Award in 2011, the Northern Liberties Prize (USA) in 2012 and Poets Meet Politics Prize in 2015. Nominated for the Pushcart and Forward prizes, she has also been placed or listed in numerous other competitions, including the Bridport, Plough, Magma, Gregory O’Donoghue, Trocaire/Poetry Ireland and the National Poetry prize. Her début collection, The lucky star of hidden things, published in 2012 by Salmon Poetry, was translated into Italian and published by l’Arcolaio. She has also had work translated into Spanish, Polish and Irish. She received a Cork Country Council Arts Bursary to write her second collection, Ghost of the Fisher Cat, which was has been nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Afric has read her work at festivals and events all over Ireland as well as in Italy, South Africa, Zimbabwe, England and France. She was selected as one of Ireland’s rising poets in a special issue (118) of Poetry Ireland Review. Afric works as a freelance editor, facilitator and reviewer and lives in West Cork.