Opportunities for Writers
Competitions, awards, calls for submissions, residencies and open mic opportunities for poets. If you would like to advertise an opportunity for poets on our website, please email mmcgraw@poetryireland.ie
Calls for Submissions
Poetry Ireland Review
Submission window is open regularly throughout the year » more details
Irish Pages: “Scotland” Call For Submissions
Deadline: ongoing » more details
The London Magazine
Deadline:Ongoing » more details
Eat the Storms Podcast
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
Working-Class Writing Archive
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
Beir Bua
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
Two Meter Review
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
Seashores Haiku Journal
Deadline: January & July » more details
Rochford Street Review
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
The Haibun Journal
Deadline:January & July » more details
Dodging the Rain Submission Call
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
A New Ulster
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
New Irish Writing
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
Antiphon
(accepts submissions on an on-going basis throughout the year) » more details
Stepaway Magazine
(accepts submissions on an on-going basis throughout the year) » more details
The Flexible Persona Online Journal
(accepting submissions on an on-going basis throughout the year) » more details
Unapologetic Magazine Issue 4
Deadline: 10 Feb 2025 » more details
Wild Whispers Poetry Magazine (Online)
Deadline: 14 Feb 2025 » more details
Winter Papers
Deadline: 19 Feb 2025 » more details
Skylight 47 Poetry Issue #20
Deadline: 28 Feb 2025 » more details
Southword New International Writing (Journal) - Fiction
Deadline: 28 Feb 2025 » more details
Impossible Archetype Issue Seventeen
Deadline: 1 Mar 2025 » more details
THE CATERPILLAR POETRY PRIZE 2025
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Deadline: 1 Apr 2025 » more details
Quare Éire: An Anthology of Neo-mythmaking
Deadline: 30 Apr 2025 » more details
Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition 2025
Deadline: 4 May 2025 » more details
Competitions & Awards
Cúirt Young Writer Delegates Programme
Deadline: 9 Feb 2025 » more details
Denis Devlin Award 2025 - Irish Language Poetry
Deadline: 13 Feb 2025 » more details
New Voices: North 2025 (with Jan Carson and Stephen Sexton)
Deadline: 19 Feb 2025 » more details
Maria Edgeworth Festival – Poetry and Short Story Competition
Deadline: 28 Feb 2025 » more details
National Mentoring Programme 2025
Deadline: 2 Mar 2025 » more details
National Mentoring Programme 2025
Deadline: 2 Mar 2025 » more details
Submissions Open for Wainwright Prize 2025
Deadline: 6 Mar 2025 » more details
2025 Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition
Deadline: 15 Mar 2025 » more details
Cathalbui Poetry Competition 2025
Deadline: 17 Mar 2025 » more details
The Fish Poetry Prize 2025
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
THE CATERPILLAR POETRY PRIZE 2025
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
Comórtas Crann Beo na Gaeilge | Irish Poetry Competition
Deadline: 1 Apr 2025 » more details
Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition 2025
Deadline: 4 May 2025 » more details
Anthology Short Story Competition
Deadline: 31 Jul 2025 » more details
Anthology Poetry Competition
Deadline: 31 Oct 2025 » more details
Hour of Writes - Weekly Writing Competition
Deadline: 31 Dec 2025 » more details
Kids & Teens
THE CATERPILLAR POETRY PRIZE 2025
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
Open Mic Opportunities
Belfast: Purely Poetry at the Crescent Arts Centre
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Clare: Open Mic at Banner Books
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Cork: DeBarra’s Spoken Word
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Cork: Ó bhéal Poetry Readings & Open-mic Nights
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Dublin: Dolcáin’s Cellar
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Dublin: Staccato
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Dublin: Takin’ the Mic
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Dublin: The Circle Sessions
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Dublin: The Intercollective
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Dublin:The Sunflower Sessions
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Galway: The Oil Slick
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Kerry: ‘Literary Listowel’ Readings
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Limerick: First Wednesday Series
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Online: Lime Square Poets
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Sligo: Illuminations
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Sligo: The Word
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Poetry Day Competitions
Maria Edgeworth Festival – Poetry and Short Story Competition
Deadline: 28 Feb 2025 » more details
Residencies
Anam Cara Writer’s and Artist’s Retreat
Bantry, County Cork » more details
Arvon Centre
Shropshire/West Yorkshire/Devon, UK » more details
Bere Island Creative Writing
Bantry Bay, Cork » more details
Circle of Misse
Loire Valley, France » more details
Connemara Writers’ Retreat
Renvyle, County Galway » more details
Greywood Arts
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Half Door Writers’ Retreat
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Ireland Writing Retreat
Donegal » more details
La Muse Artists and Writers Retreat
Labastide-Esparbairenque, France » more details
Mirror Lamp Press x The Complex Writing Residencies 2025
Deadline: 10 Feb 2025 » more details
Molly Keane Writers’ Retreat
Ardmore, County Wexford » more details
Old Rectory Retreat
Westport, County Mayo » more details
The Garsdale Retreat
Sedbergh, Cumbria, UK » more details
The Long Barn
Castlehaven Harbour, West Cork » more details
The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig
Newbliss, County Monaghan » more details
Workshops
The Ten by Ten Workshop
Deadline: 10 Feb 2025 » more details
Mirror Lamp Press x The Complex Writing Residencies 2025
Deadline: 10 Feb 2025 » more details
Writers' Groups
Creative Writing Groups at Dublin City Libraries
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Cruinniú na bhFilí (ar líne)
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Dublin: Frustrated Writers’ Group
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Limerick: Writepace
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Meath: Creative Writing Group (Bullsarse Writers)
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Meath: Navan Creative Writers
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Ranelagh: Writers’ Group
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Shut Up and Write!
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Spectrum Dublin Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers
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Tir Chonaill Writers
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Westport, Co. Mayo: SixPens Writing Group & Weekend Writing Retreat
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Write Club from Fighting Words
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Writing Groups at the Irish Writers Centre
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