from Mayo, often à Paris. Now in Belfast. Writer. Waterford Poetry Prize 2023, @writersweek Single Poem Award 2024, Cúirt New Writing Prize 2025
Mayo, Ireland
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Still can’t quite believe this happened — delighted to share that I won the Single Poem Award at @WritersWeek
Over the moon 🪇🎉💃🏻✨Thank you so much to @VKennefick for selecting my poem
Honoured to have been selected as one of the recipients this year. ♥️
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Student Award.
The Trust has awarded the following students:
Lexie Ashcroft
Finola Cahill
Anne Marie Dunne
Olivia Heggarty
Noel Howley
Alexandra Karaim
Bios and more here:
irelandchairofpoetry.org/ire…
Having received previous Arts Council funding now disqualifies you from the Agility Award. Obviously resources are limited but it’s hard to support this decision. What is out there to support artists in the massive middle ground between first agility award and a bursary?
🥂🍾💃🏻 delighted!
Thrilled to have a poem highly commended in the @CuirtFestival New Writing Prize 2025 🖋️
Huge congratulations to @Finolala and to all the winners! 💫✨
Enormous gratitude to @VKennefick for her kind words about my poem 🙏
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put him in a pool and delete the ladder
People have noticed similarities in the way Elon Musk and Sims characters move and act. xitter.cf/DropPopHQ/status/18832…
Delighted to be reading at this. It’s a free event so bop along for poems and vino
🎉 Join us for the launch of Poetry Ireland Review Issue 144, edited by Jessica Traynor.
📅 Tues 21 Jan, 6:30pm
📍 58 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
📩 RSVP Here: eventbrite.com/e/launch-poet…
Readings by Kimberly Campanello, Róisín Kelly, Harry Clifton, Nicole Morris, Dolores Stewart.
Ending the year on a real high having a poem in Poetry Ireland Review for the first time. Whatever about the publication, it is so nice to recognise so many people in the issue as friends I’ve met through the poetry community the last few years. Thanks again, @JessicaTraynor6
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A place for every Storm ⚡️
‘This city is opportunity cost’
Fresh off the Boat is a poem by @Finolala featured in Issue 4 of The Storms, Dublin Days, from city to shore and across the sea, seen here by the Jeanie Johnston three-masted barque in the River Liffey
A beauty from @oliviaheggarty
: Do you think of them? : Of course. : And miss them?
With all I have left.
—from Olivia Heggarty's 'Conversation Between Job and his Wife Beginning with Job's Wife' in Propel 12
Read & listen to the full poem here >> propelmagazine.co.uk/olivia-…
ALT Excerpt from Olivia Heggarty's 'Conversation Between Job and his Wife beginning with Job's Wife' in Propel Issue 12: :I will not curse you. : Your will be done. : Show me my wrongs and show me you're right. Your world is beautiful, bodies and all. : Guts and all. : : Boils and all. : : Children, or none. : Has he rewarded you? : It is the right thing to say. Where have the heartbeats gone? : Whose? : Do you think of them? : Of course. : And miss them? With all I have left.
Catch me reading at the the 12 minute mark of this episode of @EatTheStorms
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Still thinking about @ok_maksymchuk’s powerful reading last night at the Seamus Heaney Centre. I keep returning to this poem. It’s from her latest collection, Still City.
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Story-a-Day 24
'Stella Tyge wasn’t herself. Last Saturday, as the smoke wafted from the spent candles of her thirty-fourth birthday cake, she renounced her birth name, and said she would answer to Stella no longer.'
from 'Yesterday' by @Finolala
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Thank you so much to the @MunLitCentre for including this poem in the latest Southword. Thanks also to Elaine Feeney for giving it a high commendation in the Cúirt New Writing Prize, and eternal gratitude to @VKennefick for selecting it for the Single Poem Award at Writers Week.
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NEW: announcing our 2025 Poetry Workshop with @NiChurr.
This new workshop will help poets working on developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (January to May 2025). Applications are now open and will close at 5pm on Monday 9th December.
More information: stingingfly.org/poetry-works…
Had such a beautiful afternoon launching @StormsJournal at Ardgillan Castle. Bravo again to all involved
I have a poem in here :) It's also the poem that won the Single Poem Award at Writers Week, and I'm so glad it found its home in Southword.
Southword issue 47 is now available including short stories, poems and essays from great writers. For more
information and details on how to order a copy go to munsterlit.ie
