2006

Scríobh Poetry Competition
2005    
2004 The Scríobh Poetry competition was inaugurated in 2004 as part of the prestigious Scríobh Literary Festival. The competition was born out of the festival committee’s desire to create an opportunity to discover and support new writing, both in Ireland and beyond. Poems are accepted in either Irish or English and entries are not limited to Irish poets. Judged by Macdara Woods, the competition has attracted over 750 poems from over 450 writers from Ireland, the UK, and the US in three years.  
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  The eleven strong 2006 shortlist has been announced and will all read from their shortlisted work on Saturday 22nd July at 3pm, following a workshop with Macdara Woods.  
   
  Saturday 22nd of July will also see the launch of the Poetry Competition Chapbook which will include the 37 shortlisted poems from the last three years; 2004-2006, and a foreword from competition judge Macdara Woods.  
   
  The day will then close with a public reading from two exceptional poets, Macdara Woods and Tess Gallagher at 7.30pm.  
   
 

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  Saturday 22 July 2006  
  11am I FREE I Open to Shortlist only  
  Workshop with Macdara Woods. Strictly limited to the 11 shortlisted authors.  
   
 

3pm I FREE

 
  2006 Shortlist Reading  
  Public Reading from the eleven shortlsited works by the authors. An excellent opportunity to explore new trends in Irish writing and to hear from exciting emerging writers reading from their unpublished works. First, Second and Third Prize will be awarded after the reading  
  see the 2006 shortlist>  
   
  6.30pm I FREE I All Welcome  
  Join us as we launch the Scríobh Poetry Competition Chapbook featuring all 37 shortlisted poems from the past three years.  
     
  7.30pm I €10/8 I Booking advisable  
Reading: Macdara Woods and Tess Gallagher  
 
 
  MacDara Woods Macdara Woods was born in Dublin in 1942 and has been publishing since the sixties, some 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.

  
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  Tess Gallagher Tess Gallagher is one of America's most accomplished and cherished poets and has been coming to the Sligo area, most notably Balindoon and Strandhill, since 1968. She has opened exhibitions for Sean McSweeney in Dublin and for Josie Gray in Ballindoon.  
     
  Fourteen years after the publication of Moon Crossing Bridge, Tess Gallagher's powerful elegies following the death of her husband, Raymond Carver, Dear Ghosts, is the long-awaited return of Gallagher's unequivocal voice. Indeed it has been so popular that it is currently being reprinted one month after its release.  
       
  She is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Dear Ghosts, Moon Crossing, Bridge and Amplitude: New and Selected Poems. She is also the author of Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray, A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry, and two collections of short fiction, At the Owl Woman Saloon and The Lover of Horses and Other Stories. She lives and writes in Port Angeles, Washington.  
 
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