2024 Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition – open for submissions
Calling all poets – Take the leap! Submissions now open for 2024 Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition
The Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition – now in its eleventh year – attracts hundreds of entries from across the island of Ireland annually.
This year, The Red Line Book Festival has invited award winning poet Patrick Deeley to judge the competition. The winning poet will win a cash prize of €300, there is also a cash prize of €200 for second place and €100 for third place. Shortlisted poets will be invited to read their poem as part of the 2024 Red Line Book Festival, which runs this year from October 14-20, 2024.
The closing date for entries is Monday 16th September 2024 and entries will only be accepted by email. The shortlist will be announced onWednesday 2nd October 2024, with the winner announced during this year’s Red Line Book Festival. The 2024 Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition rules can be downloaded here.
The 2024 Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition entry form can be downloaded here.
Notes: THE RED LINE BOOK FESTIVAL is an initiative of South Dublin County Council. Held in October each year, the festival celebrates the very best in local, national and international writing. Taking place in venues across South County Dublin, the Red Line Book Festival provides a programme of events and workshops that appeals to people of all ages and interests, from children to adults, casual readers to bookworms. The festival runs October 14th-20th October, 2024. www.redlinefestival.ie
Patrick Deeley is a poet, memoirist and children’s writer from Loughrea. Keepsake is his eighth collection of poems with Dedalus Press. His previous collections include The End of the World, Groundswell: New and Selected, and The Bones of Creation. His work has featured in many anthologies and literary journals worldwide as well as being translated to French, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian and other languages. He received the 2019 Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for poetry, and his other awards include the Dermot Healy International Poetry Prize, and the Bisto and Eilis Dillon Awards for Children’s Literature. His best-selling, critically acclaimed memoir, The Hurley Maker’s Son, was published by Transworld in 2016.