Irish Arts Center's “literary revelry” (New Yorker) returns with Vona Groarke joining Nick Laird as co-curator. In an intimately reconfigured setup for our flexible theatre and tucked away from the cacophony of the city and our online lives, PoetryFest bridges contemporary work from both sides of the Atlantic with a free weekend of readings and conversations with leading Irish, Northern Irish, and North American writers. Featuring readings from Declan Ryan, John Kelly, Leontia Flynn, Ishion Hutchinson, Nuar Alsadir, Shane McCrae, Fran Lock, Henri Cole, and Maggie Millner.
Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.