Scriobh Poetry Competition

Attracting entries from Ireland , the UK , and the US the inaugural Scríobh Poetry competition, judged by Macdara Woods, was a resounding success.  We received 260 poems from over 150 writers.

The standard was extremely high again this year resulting in a shortlist of eleven. These eleven will participate in a workshop led by Macdara Woods, followed by a reading of their work at the Scríobh Literary Festival. 

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Macdara Woods

Macdara Woods . B. Dublin, 1942.   Publishing since the sixties, thirteen books – mostly poetry, as well as CDs and musical collaborations. The two most recent collections, Knowledge in the Blood  (an expanded New and Selected), and The Nightingale Water, are both from Dedalus, Dublin , 2000/2001.

A member of Aosdána, widely translated, he has read his poems from Berkeley , San Francisco , to the Maxim Gorki Literary Institute, Moscow , and Moscow State University . Founder/editor of the literary magazine Cyphers, lives in Dublin , and when he can in Umbria . He is a Trustee of the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Trust created by the Will of Katherine Kavanagh.