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Welcome to the Munster
Literature Centre
Founded in 1993, the Munster Literature Centre (Ionad Litríochta an Deiscirt) is a non-profit arts organisation dedicated to the promotion and celebration of literature, especially that of Munster. To this end, we organise festivals, workshops, readings and competitions. Our publishing section, Southword Editions, publishes a biannual journal, poetry collections and short stories. We actively seek to support new and emerging writers and are assisted in our efforts through funding from Cork City Council, Cork County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland.
Originally located in Sullivan's Quay, the centre moved to its current premises in the Frank O'Connor House (the author's birthplace) at 84 Douglas Street, in 2003.
In 2000, the Munster Literature Centre organised the first Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival, an event dedicated to the celebration of the short story and named for one of Cork's most beloved authors. The festival showcases readings, literary forums and workshops. Following continued growth and additional funding, the Cork City - Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was introduced in 2005, coinciding with Cork's designation as that year's European Capital of Culture. The award is now recognised as the single biggest prize for a short story collection in the world and is presented at the end of the festival.
In 2002, the Munster Literature Centre introduced the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize, an annual short story competition dedicated to one of Ireland's most accomplished story writers and theorists. This too is presented during the FOC festival. The centre also hosts the Cork Spring Literary Festival each year.
Workshops are held by featured authors in both autumn and spring, allowing the general public to receive creative guidance in an intimate setting for a minimal fee. In addition, the centre sponsors a Writer in Residence each year.
We invite you to browse our website for further information regarding our events, Munster literature, and other literary information. Should you have any queries, we would be happy to hear from you.
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LATEST NEWS
Read the new issue of Southword (#21), our free literary journal
--now online!
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THE 2012 GREGORY O'DONOGHUE
INTERNATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION
The Munster Literature Centre
is pleased to announce
the 2012 winners and commended poets.
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Click here to read competition judge Patrick Cotter's blog about his decision making process.
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1st Place
Suji Kwock Kim, New York, USA for “Sonogram Song”
2nd Place
Alinda Wasner, Michigan USA for “Ode to the Night and the Morning Following an All-Day Day of Arguing”
3rd Place
Tom Moore, Cork, Ireland for “Meteorites”
Highly Commended (10)
in alphabetical order
Erica Miriam Fabri, New York, USA for “Fish”
Judith Krause, Regina, Canada for “Mitterand’s Last Meal”
Jude Neal, Bowen Island, Canada for “Blue Bowl”
Tanya Olson, North Carolina, USA for “Slave to the Virgin”
Lynn Roberts, Kent, UK for “Le Douanier Rousseau: Surprised”
Mark Ryan, Clare, Ireland for “Breakfast with Yeats”
Padraig Rooney, Muenchenstein, Switzerland for “The Names of the Winds”
John Withworth, Kent, UK for “First Sight”
Amber West, New York, USA for “Daughter Eraser”
Alexandra Zempiloglou, Thessaloniki, Greece for “I lost me child”
Commended (70)
in alphabetical order
Susan Adams, NSW Australia for “Entire of Himself”
Melanie Almeder, Virginia, USA for “The Kennebec”
Devreaux Baker, California, USA for “New Orleans Style of Prayer”
Gerry Boland, Roscommon Ireland for “The Local Accupuncturist”
Burton Bradley, Wyoming USA, for “A Very Old Man Smoking His Last Cigar”
Genevieve Burger-Weiser, New York, USA for “Small People”
Cian Cafferky, Dublin, Ireland for “Nothing to See”
Mary Rose Callan, Dublin, Ireland for “Small Girl with Orange Paint”
Karen Campbell, Cheshire UK for The Ichthyologist as a Young Man”
Ron Carey, Dublin, Ireland for “Finavarra”
Eileen Casey, Dublin, Ireland for “Brought to Surface”
Evan Costigan, Dublin, Ireland for “The Kiss”
Hilary Davies, London, UK for “Coming Back”
Maria Dilorenzo New York, USA for “The PO Box”
William Doreski, New Hampshire, USA for “Blue Cotton Dress”
Tom Dredge, Kildare, Ireland for “Teelin Fiddlers”
Roger Elkin, Biddulph Moor, UK for “Mustapha Loves Her”
Michael Farry, Meath, Ireland for “Rulers”
Rachel Feder, New Orleans, USA for “Three Birds, One Heart”
Claudia Finseth, Tacoma, WA, USA for “Small Cry”
Siobhan Flynn, Dublin, Ireland for “My inner child is a teenage boy”
Peggie Gallagher, Sligo, Ireland for “Old Lady”
Carmel Hayes, Kilkenny, Ireland for “Self Portrait”
Eoin Hegarty, Carlow, Ireland for “Secret Pools”
Tania Hershman, Bristol, UK for “Dreams of a Tea Seller”
Gail Irvine, Aberdeen, Scotland for “Daily Bread”
Helena Kahn, Cork, Ireland for “East Cork A.D. 2000”
Nora Keller, New Jersey, USA for “Affinity”
Peter Kline, San Francisco, USA for “Fear of the Weaver”
John J. Kelly, Dublin, Ireland for “Up the Moyne (for rhubarb)”
W. F. Lantry, Washington D.C. USA for “Evanescence”
Paige MacKay, Ontario, Canada for “the ropes”
Michael McCarthy, Yorkshire, UK for “Westerns”
Robert Mc Dowell, Dublin, Ireland for “Kiss Chasing”
Mourad Mchiri, Montreal, Canada for “The Song of the Libertadores”
Michael McKimm, London, UK for “Eventually I had to leave....”
Alan McMonagle, Galway, Ireland for “Witch Woman”
Jim Maguire, Wexford, Ireland for “Nocturne”
Maryvonne May , St Pons de Thomiers, France for “Limpkins and Pelicans”
Maximilian Meinhardt, Mainz, Germany for “a vulture circles – black the body sweats”
David C. Meyer, Illinois, USA for “Apologio pro Poemate Meo”
Jory Mickelson, Idaho, USA for “So Careful After”
David Mohan, Dublin, Ireland for “The Swim”
Anna Moore, Waterford, Ireland for “Peace in Rest”
Gerard Moore, Laois, Ireland for “The Island”
Mary Moore, West Virgina, USA for “Damara Diving”
Peggy Moran, Illinois, USA for “Colored”
Irene Mosvold, Kentucky, USA for “Death Takes A Stroll”
Mae Newman, Dublin, Ireland for “Peace Lily”
James O’Brien, Massachusetts, USA for “first they get distracted”
Karen O’Connor, Kerry, Ireland for “Taken”
Mary O’Gorman, Tipperary, Ireland for “Lasair Choille”
Tim O’Leary, London, UK for “Bats in Lucania”
Cathal O’Riordain, Dublin, Ireland for “The Shape of my Father’s Feet”
Michelle O’Sullivan, Mayo, Ireland for “Substance”
Susan Azar Porterfield, Illinois, USA for “Woman’s Art”
Edward Power, Waterford, Ireland for “Tintype Girl”
Aidan Rooney, Massachusetts, USA for “Circuit”
Matthew Rowe, London, United Kingdom for “Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday”
Denise Ryan, Dublin, Ireland for “Moon Brides”
Don Schofield, Thessaloniki, Greece for “The Blind”
Sally Spedding, Ammanford, Wales for “The Missing”
Kim Stafford, Oregon, USA for “Wild Light at Achill Island”
Victor Tapner, Essex, UK for “Banquet in the Hall of Happiness”
Dominic Thompson, Surrey, UK for “General Nguyan Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon – E.A.”
Eran Tzelgov Beersheba, Israel for “Long Legged Cry”
Christian Wallace, Galway, Ireland for “Across the Landscape”
Julie Watts, Watermans Bay, Australia for “And Everyday Is Sunday”
Sarah Wetzel, New York, USA for “Near Death Experience”
Michael White, North Carolina, USA for “Woman Holding a Pearl Necklace”
John Hartley Williams, Berlin, Germany for “Houri”
Leigh Zaphiropoulos, New York, USA for “Coming Too, A Head, Near You”
Click here for more information about the prize.
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Emerging Poets at the Cork Spring Literary Festival
Reading Saturday 18 February, 4PM, Metropole
with Gregory O'Donoghue Prize winner Suji Kwock Kim
The eight poets have yet to publish a full collection, but in demonstration of the high standards for this line-up four of the poets are already signed-up for their debut collections.
In alphabetical order
Paul Casey
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Paula Cunningham
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Alyn Fenn
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Rory Johnston
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Afric McGlinchey
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Louis Mulcahy
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Mary Noonan
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Donna Sandahl Sorenson
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Free Love Poems for Valentines Day
On Monday February 13th if you're around Patrick Street or Oliver Plunkett Street, you might be able to pick up a complimentary broadsheet of love poems by poets participating in the festival. MLC staff will be handing out five hundred copies to those who look either blissful or lovelorn or to anyone who asks - as long as stock last! From last year I can tell you, you'd be amazed by the number of people who don't have space in their lives for free love poems, but gratefully there are always enough romantics to take up the 500 copies.
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CORK SPRING POETRY FESTIVAL
Image: 'Who Will Be a Winner' © Gundega Deģe
15 - 18 February 2012
http://www.corkpoetryfest.net
Tickets can be bought directly from the website--
events are a recession-friendly €6/€5 concessions.
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Previous articles and information available on the Archives page.
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Cork Spring
Poetry Festival
15 - 18 February 2012
Read Southword Journal
Issue 21 now online!
Poetry International.org
 
 
MLC produces the Irish section of this prestigious poetry site.
Current poets: Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Greg Delanty,
Katie Donovan, & Michael O'Loughlin.
www.poetryinternational.org
The Gregory O'Donoghue
International
Poetry Competition
Now closed. Thanks to
everyone who
entered!
Best Irish Poetry in English 2010
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Festivals
The Munster Literature Centre hosts two annual festivals. The larger Cork City - Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival takes place each September, while the Cork Spring Literary Festival, with varying themes, is presented each spring. Further information is available on our drop down menus.
MLC Workshops
Workshops run in spring & autumn. Check back in October 2011 for more details!
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