Listowel Writers’ Week Competition Winners 2024

Listowel Writers’ Week Competition Winners 2024

May 29, 2024 | Featured, News, Winners

Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award 2024

Winner: Remembrance Sunday by Darragh McKeon 

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Pigott Poetry Prize Award 2024                                                                                                    

Winner: The Solace of Artemis by Paula Meehan

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Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award                                                            

Winner:   Born Crying by Róisín Burke

Highly Commended: Holding by Anna Moloney
Highly Commended: Granny Knows Best by Maria Kenny

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Poetry Collection Award                                                                        

Winner:  Thicker than Water by Eilis Stanley

Highly Commended: The Year I Painted The Humber Bridge by Paul McMahon
Highly Commended: The Apology Tour by Michael Naghten Shanks

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Duais Foras na Gaeilge                                              

Winner: Amhdhorchact by Sadhbh Moriarty

Highly Commended: Scoil Scairte
Highly Commended: Crainn 

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Nilsson Local Heritage Award                                                   

Winner:   Mapping South Kerry by Arnold Horner

Second Prize:   Ballyheigue in Arms by Bryan McMahon

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Single Poem Award                                                                        

Winner:   The Death of A Foal by Finola Cahill

Highly Commended: Instructions for Members of The Non-Evacuation of Tears Society Post Bereavement by Róisín Leggett Bohan
Highly Commended: Sonnet for a Deer Tick by Luke Morgan

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Creative Writing for Adults with Learning Difficulties and, or, Disabilities, Award

Winner: The Taste of Solitude by Aisling Walsh

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Listowel Writers’ Week would like to sincerely thank all Sponsors who supported this year’s competitions and the many competition entrants who submitted their work.

Listowel Writers’ Week Competition Winners 2023

Listowel Writers’ Week Competition Winners 2023

May 31, 2023 | Featured, Winners

Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award 2023

– Kindly sponsored by Kerry Group PLC

Winner: The Amusements by Aingeala Flannery

Shortlisted:

  • The Colony by Audrey Magee
  • The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan
  • Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
  • The Amusements by Aingeala Flannery
  • The Witches of Vardo by Anya Bergman

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Pigott Poetry Prize Award 2023                                                                                                     

– Kindly sponsored by Mark Pigott KBE and the Pigott Family

Winner: Company by Tom French

Shortlisted:

  • Nithy Kasa, Palm Wine Tapper and the Boy at Jericho (Doire Press)
  • Tara Bergin, Savage Tales (Carcanet Press)
  • Tom French, Company (Gallery Press)

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Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award                                                            

– Kindly sponsored by Kerry County Council

Winner:  Birth of a Devil Sheep by David McGrath

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Poetry Collection                                                                               

– Kindly sponsored by Tim Costello, Profile Developments

Winner: The Wings My Father Made Me by Paul McMahon

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Duais Foras na Gaeilge                                              

– Kindly sponsored by Foras na Gaeilge

Winner:  I dTeach na Teanga by Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha

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Nilsson Local Heritage Award                                                   

– Kindly sponsored by the Nilsson Family

Winner:  Dublin Castle: From Fortress to Palace by Séan Duffy, John Montague, Kevin Mulligan & Michael O’Neill (Wordwell Press)

Second Prize:  The Forgotten Cemetery: Excavation at Ranelagh, Co. Roscommon – Shane Delainey & Eileen Murphy (Wordwell Press)

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Creative Writing for Adults with Learning Difficulties and, or, Disabilities, Award

– Kindly sponsored by Pierse Fitzgibbon Solicitors                                                   

Winner:  The Job by Colm O’Shea

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Listowel Writers’ Week would like to sincerely thank all Sponsors who supported this year’s competitions and the many competition entrants who submitted their work.