As always, we had a tremendous response to our Literary Competitions and we would encourage you to continue writing your short stories, poems, plays and essays, remembering the famous quote to, Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. – Louis L’Amour.
We’re now pleased to announce the shortlisted entries in the following categories below. The winners will be announced on Wednesday 28th May at the Opening Ceremony of Listowel Writers’ Week in the Ballroom of the Arms Hotel, Listowel.
The Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award
Mary O’Shea for Kin
Lisa Harding for Clean
Patrick McCusker for Copley Square with Falling Leaves
Phil Kearney Byrne for My Father, My Wife
Noel King for Crossroads
Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award
Fiona Doyle for Abigail
Hugh Travers for Cardboard City
Pete Mullineaux for Running on Empty
Marina Ní Dhubháin for Lapsed Adoration
Fiona Doyle for Deluge
Duais Foras Na Gaeilge
Simon O Faolain for Teifeac, Tairseacha and Bedouin
Gréagói Ó Dúill for An Pharalís Chreathach
Simon O Faolain for Crónán
The Single Poem Competition
Jim Maguire for After they’ve gone
Jack Cuddihy for Maureen Lappan
Angela Carr for CAT Scan
Mary Turley-McGrath for Magheroarty Beach
Marie Coveney for Afternoon in the Studio
The Poetry Collection
Simon Lewis for Jewtown
Declan Sweeney for Feeding the Birds
Maurice Devitt for Reading Tennyson on Reuben Street
Jane Clarke for The River
Winifred McNulty for The Lake
Listowel Writers’ Week Originals Competition
Short Story
Fiona Whyte and Madeleine D’Arcy for Fairy Tale of New Cork
Marie Gethins for Pygmalion
Mary-Anne Bartlett for In Your Dreams
Maxine Backus for Waving as they go
Eamon Murphy for A Life Skipped
Short Poem
Shirley McClure for Executor Sale
Noel King for Glissando
Judy O’Kane for On Garryvoe Beach
Davnett Heery for Two Camellias
Marie Gahan for Orange Split
Humourous Essay
Joseph Sweeney for Sorry
John Fitzgerald for Bovine
Brian O’Connor for The Brother
Joseph Sweeney for Max Comp
Michael Ryan for The Cutting Edge