Calling aspiring poets to submit their work for the 2024 Red Line Book Festival poetry competition. Now in its eleventh year, the prestigious Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition attracts hundreds of entries from all across the island of Ireland annually. This year, Red Line Book Festival is honoured to have award-winning poet Patrick Deely to judge the competition entries. The closing date for entries is Monday 16th September 2024 and no entries will be accepted after this date. The shortlist will be announced on Wednesday 2nd October 2024, with the winner announced during this year’s Red Line Book Festival which runs this year from October 14th to 20th, 2024.
Entry forms and competition rules can be downloaded from redlinefestival.ie and southdublinlibraries.ie all entries must be emailed to poetrycompetition@sdublincoco.ie.
Shortlisted poets will be invited to read their poems as part of the 2024 Red Line Book Festival in October and winners will be announced. 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.
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.
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, see www.redlinefestival.ie for more information.
