Opportunities for Writers
Competitions, awards, calls for submissions, residencies and open mic opportunties for poets. If you would like to advertise an opportunity for poets on our website, please email media@poetryireland.ie.
Calls for Submissions
Crossways
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HeadStuff.org Poetry Submissions
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Poethead, Index Of Women Poets: Call for Submissions
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Automatic Pilot Call for Submissions
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Dodging the Rain Submission Call
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Flight Writing Submission Call
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A New Ulster
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Hidden Channel Zine
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Antiphon
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Stepaway Magazine
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The Flexible Persona Online Journal
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Poetry Ireland Review
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National Mentoring Programme 2018
Deadline: 23 Aug 2018 » more details
The Pickled Body 4.1: ‘The view from here / From here the view’
Deadline: 30 Aug 2018 » more details
The Limerick Poets’ Society First Collection
Deadline: 31 Aug 2018 » more details
HEBE Poetry Magazine
Deadline: 31 Aug 2018 » more details
SKYLIGHT 47 ISSUE 11
Deadline: 1 Sep 2018 » more details
Bombinate Zine Issue 4
Deadline: 1 Sep 2018 » more details
Tales From the Forest Magazine: Call for Submissions
Deadline: 16 Sep 2018 » more details
Competitions & Awards
Hennessy New Irish Writing
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Hour of Writes - Weekly Writing Competition
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Kavanagh Fellowship
Deadline: 24 Aug 2018 » more details
Limerick Literary Festival Poetry Competition
Deadline: 25 Aug 2018 » more details
James Tate Prize for the International Poetry Chapbook Contest 2018
Deadline: 31 Aug 2018 » more details
Aesthetica Creative Writing Award
Deadline: 31 Aug 2018 » more details
Bray Literary Festival 2018 Poetry and Flash Fiction Competition
Deadline: 31 Aug 2018 » more details
Cultural Weekly’s Jack Grapes Poetry Prize
Deadline: 31 Aug 2018 » more details
Irish Poem of the Year 2018
Deadline: 7 Sep 2018 » more details
The Bailieborough Poetry Prize 2018
Deadline: 10 Sep 2018 » more details
PBS & Mslexia Women’s Poetry Prize
Deadline: 14 Sep 2018 » more details
PBS & Mslexia Women’s Pamphlet Competition
Deadline: 14 Sep 2018 » more details
Manchester Writing Competition 2018
Deadline: 14 Sep 2018 » more details
Voices of War International Poetry Competition
Deadline: 15 Sep 2018 » more details
Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Awards
Deadline: 26 Sep 2018 » more details
Asymptote’s International Translations Contest
Deadline: 1 Oct 2018 » more details
20th. Francis Ledwidge Poetry Award
Deadline: 5 Nov 2018 » more details
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Deadline: 3 Dec 2018 » more details
The Moth Poetry Prize
Deadline: 31 Dec 2018 » more details
Ó Bhéal International Five Words Poetry Competition
Deadline: 31 Jan 2019 (Weekly Submissions) » more details
Courses
Autumn Daytime Creative Writing with Susan Millar DuMars
Galway Arts Centre » more details
The Garsdale Retreat
Sedbergh, Cumbria, UK » more details
Poetry Kit Online Courses
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Summer Fiction Workshop - Munster Literature Centre
Deadline: 25 Aug 2018 » more details
Creative Writing Course for Older People 2018
Deadline: 1 Sep 2018 » more details
Beginners Creative Writing Classes at Galway Technical Institute
Deadline: 25 Sep 2018 » more details
Intermediate Creative Writing Classes at Galway Technical Institute
Deadline: 26 Sep 2018 » more details
Jobs
Burns Visting Scholar at Boston College
Deadline: 15 Oct 2018 » more details
Open Mic Opportunities
Staccato - Open Mic, Dublin
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The CO Club, Open Mic
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The Word, Sligo
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Shipwrecked - Open Mic at the Bowery, Rathmines
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‘Literary Listowel’ Readings, Kerry
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Illuminations, Sligo
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The Merg Sessions, Dublin
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Purely Poetry at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
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Live Words, Cork
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North West Words, Donegal
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Hungry Hill Poetry Friday, Castletownbere, Cork
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Psoken Wrod, Clonakilty
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Flying South Open Mic, Dublin
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Red Pill, Belfast
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Slam Sunday, Dublin
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The Circle Sessions, Dublin
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Bank Holiday Poets’ Corner, Tralee
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Takin’ the Mic, Dublin
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The Sunflower Sessions, Dublin
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‘On the Nail’ Literary Gatherings, Limerick
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The Whitehouse Poets, Limerick
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Ó bhéal Poetry Readings & Open-mic Nights, Cork
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Over The Edge Open Readings, Galway
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Residencies
The Garsdale Retreat
Sedbergh, Cumbria, UK » more details
The Moth Retreat for Artists and Writers
Belturbet, County Cavan » more details
Avondale Retreat
Rathdrum, County Wicklow » more details
The Waterford Healing Arts Trust - Artist in Residence
Waterford City, County Waterford » more details
Schull Writer’s Retreat
Schull, County Cork » more details
The Schoolhouse Artists Retreat and Studio - Residency Programme
Kiltimagh, County Mayo » more details
Old Rectory Retreat
Westport, County Mayo » more details
Kilcoe Writers’ Retreat
Kilcoe, County Cork » more details
Molly Keane Writers’ Retreat
Ardmore, County Wexford » more details
Anam Cara Writer’s and Artist’s Retreat
Bantry, County Cork » more details
The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig
Newbliss, County Monaghan » more details
Arvon Centre
Shropshire/West Yorkshire/Devon, UK » more details
Writers' Groups
The Dublin Writer’s Forum
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