
Here is the full list of winners and shortlisted entries for this year’s Creative Writing Competitions at Listowel Writers’ Week. We produced an anthology of all the winning entries alas, it completely sold out on the first day of the Festival.
Names | Title | Competition |
Kit de Waal | My Name is Leon | Winner of Kerry Group Irish Novel Award |
Neil Hegarty | Inch Levels | Shortlisted Kerry Group Irish Novel Award |
Conor O’Callaghan | Nothing on Earth | Shortlisted Kerry Group Irish Novel Award |
Emma Donoghue | The Wonder | ShortlistedKerry Group Irish Novel Award |
Mike McCormack | Solar Bones | Shortlisted Kerry Group Irish Novel Award |
Vona Groarke | Selected Poems | Winner The Pigott Poetry Prize |
Maighread Medbh | Parvit of Agelast | Shortisted Pigott Poetry Prize |
Bernard O’Donoghue | The Seasons of Cullen Church | Shortlisted Pigott Poetry Prize |
Dermot O’Sullivan | A Little Journey | Winner The Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award |
Angela Lyons | The Longest Week | Shortlisted Bryan MacMahon Short Story |
Mary O’Shea | Riptides and Raptors | Shortlisted Bryan MacMahon Short Story |
Paul Lenehan | Stories of Girls | Shortlisted Bryan MacMahon Short Story |
Jennifer Davidson | Once There Was Rain | Shortlisted Bryan MacMahon Short Story |
Máire Ní Bhriain | Blas | Duais Foras na Gaeilge |
Micheál Ó Ruairc | Leath Bealaigh | Shortlisted Duais Foras na Gaeilge |
Maria Ní Mhurchu | Samuel | Shortlisted Duais Foras na Gaeilge |
Aoife Nic Fhearghusa | An Boihéamach | Shortlisted Duais Foras na Gaeilge |
Máire Ní Bhriain | Scéal | Shortlisted Duais Foras na Gaeilge |
Máire Ní Bhriain | Machnaimh ag Sliabh Liag | Shortlisted Duais Foras na Gaeilge |
Peter Sirr | Krakow | Winner Eamon Keane Full Length Play |
Brian Kirk | Story | Shortlisted Eamon Keane F Length Play |
Dermot MacCormack | Goldfinch | Shortlisted Eamon Keane F Length Play |
Gillian Grattan | Tinderella | Shortlisted Eamon Keane F Length Play |
John McManus | Tell you a Question | Shortlisted Eamon Keane F Length Play |
Paul McMahon | Pentimento | Shortlisted Eamon Keane F Length Play |
Paul Maher | Kalinka and Me | Shortlisted Eamon Keane F Length Play |
Jackie Gorman | The Blue Hare | Winner
The Single Poen Award |
Melanie White | Hypoplasia | Shortlisted Poetry Single |
Tracy Wren | The Day Ella Fitzgerald Died | Shortlisted Poetry Single |
Eleanor M Hooker | When you Dream of the Dead | Shortlisted Poetry Single |
Eilis Stanley | Elizabeth Christina | Shortlisted Poetry Single |
Deirdre Keane | Flower Girl | Shortlisted Poetry Single |
Alyn Fenn | Off Kilter | Winner
The Poetry Collection |
Derek Coyle | The Odd Number | Shortlisted Poetry Collection |
Olivia Kenny McCarthy | Rough Touch | Shortlisted Poetry Collection |
Sophie O’Sullivan | Collection of a 25 year old Chaotic Woman | Shortlisted Poetry Collection |
Catherine Robinson | Ring Road with Godiva | Shortlisted Poetry Collection |
Liz Quirke | The Trees and The Breeze | Winner
Writers’ Week Originals Short Poem |
Ian R. Pettit | Ancient Greek ‘To see for Oneself’ (Autopsy) | Shortlisted
Writers’ Week Originals Short Poem |
Karen O’Connor | Buying Pineapple | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Short Poem |
Karen O’Connor | The Photograph | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Short Poem |
Deirdre Keane | The Poetaster’s Lament | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Short Poem |
Deirdre Keane | Mother and Child in the Corot Room | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Short Poem |
John Fitzgerald | Is there an afterwife? | Winner Writers’ Week Originals Humorous Essay |
Henry McClave | The Trouble with Xs | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Humorous Essay |
Joe McKiernan | The Flatling’s Record Attempt | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Humorous Essay |
Frank Murphy | Ancient versus Modern | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Humorous Essay |
Christine Hession | Don’t Get Me Started | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Humorous Essay |
Geraldine O’Sullivan | Misstep | Winner Writers’ Week Originals Short Story |
Julian Judge | Blackflies and Bluebottles | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Short Story |
Shauna Colgan | Lough na Rúnda | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Short Story |
Marie Gethins | Passed Over | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Short Story |
Brendan O’Broin | Hunting the Muffin | Shortlisted Writers’ Week Originals Short Story |
Judy O’Kane | The Sea | Winner Irish Post Short Story |
Lucie Ryan | Pin a Number to your Skirt | Winner Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 9 |
Zara McGrath | Shoes | 2nd Prize Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 9 |
Caoimhe Ní Shúilleabháin | Mo Shaol | 3rd Prize Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 9 |
Mira Danielak | A Walk in Autumn | Winner
Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 12 |
Cara O’Reilly | Ivy House | Joint 2nd Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 12 |
Sadhbh O’Donovan | Dognapped | Joint 2nd Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 12 |
Denise Lehane | I’m living the Dream! | 3rd Prize Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 12 |
Órlaith Ní Uiginn | The Last Hope | Winner
Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 14 |
Aislinn Rodgers | Election Day | 2nd Prize Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 14 |
Georgina Dowling | No Longer Empty | 3rd Prize County Council.Creative Writing for Youth Under 14 |
Cian Morey | VICI | Winner
Kerry Co Co.Creative Writing for Youth Under 16 |
Sorcha Kennelly | The Safest Grounds | 2nd Prize Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 16 |
Freyja Hellebust | Burnt Out | Joint 3rd Prize Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 16 |
Ashling Claire Gormley | My Alice | Joint 3rd Prize Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 16 |
Kim Bradfield | The Neighbour | Winner
Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 18 |
Sonja Murphy | Starshow | 2nd Prize Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 18 |
Philip Krause | Crimson Knight | Joint 3rd Prize Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 18 |
Aoife MacDonagh | He wished he’d brought an umbrella | Joint 3rd Prize Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Under 18 |
Nell Ryan Moriarty | Slow Jace | Winner
Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Limerick Competition |
Emma Holmes | I wish I had a Dog | 2nd Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Limerick Competition |
Órla Bennis | The Bride | 3rd Kerry County Council Creative Writing for Youth Limerick Competition |
Ruth Stewart | Prison of Fog | Winner Creative Writing for Special Educational Needs 18 & Under |
Alexander O’Doherty | School Poem | Joint 2nd Creative Writing for Special Educational Needs 18 & Under |
Klaudia Simachowicz | Yuki’s Story | Joint 2nd Creative Writing for Special Educational Needs 18 & Under |
William O’Connor | Who I Am | 3rd Prize Creative Writing for Special Educational Needs 18 & Under |
Madeleine A Quann | Triangle | Winner
Creative Writing for Adults with Special Needs |
Stephen Faley | The Night I heard the Lightning | 2nd Prize Creative Writing for Adults with Special Needs |
The Silvermines Historical Society | Mining the Past | Winner
The Nilsson Local Heritage Writing Competition |
Michael Christopher Keane | From Laois to Kerry | 2nd Prize The Nilsson Local Heritage Writing Competition |