Opportunities for Writers
Competitions, awards, calls for submissions, residencies and open mic opportunities for poets. If you would like to advertise an opportunity for poets on our website, please email media@poetryireland.ie.
Calls for Submissions
Tinteán Magazine (Australia)
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
Poetry Ireland Review
Submission window is open regularly throughout the year » more details
The London Magazine
Deadline:Ongoing » more details
Eat the Storms Podcast
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
Working-Class Writing Archive
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
Beir Bua
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
Two Meter Review
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
Seashores Haiku Journal
Deadline: January & July » more details
Rochford Street Review
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
The Haibun Journal
Deadline:January & July » more details
Dodging the Rain
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
A New Ulster
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
New Irish Writing
Deadline: Ongoing » more details
Antiphon
(accepts submissions on an on-going basis throughout the year) » more details
Stepaway Magazine
(accepts submissions on an on-going basis throughout the year) » more details
The Flexible Persona Online Journal
(accepting submissions on an on-going basis throughout the year) » more details
THE CATERPILLAR POETRY PRIZE 2025
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
Paper Lanterns: Teen & Young Adult Literary Journal
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
Swerve Magazine
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Deadline: 1 Apr 2025 » more details
Bloomsday Poetry Short Film Submissions
Deadline: 24 Apr 2025 » more details
Quare Éire: An Anthology of Neo-mythmaking
Deadline: 30 Apr 2025 » more details
Faerie Press: Anthology for Teens and Young Adults
Deadline: 30 Apr 2025 » more details
Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition 2025
Deadline: 4 May 2025 » more details
RTÉ Short Story Competition
Deadline: 23 May 2025 » more details
Literature Today June 2025 Issue
Deadline: 18 Jun 2025 » more details
Heroines Anthology - Volume 6
Deadline: 30 Jun 2025 » more details
Competitions & Awards
The Fish Poetry Prize 2025
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
Dark Poets Prize Edition III
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
THE CATERPILLAR POETRY PRIZE 2025
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
Comórtas Crann Beo na Gaeilge | Irish Poetry Competition
Deadline: 1 Apr 2025 » more details
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Deadline: 1 Apr 2025 » more details
South Dublin County Council Individual Bursary Awards 2025
Deadline: 3 Apr 2025 » more details
Harper-Wood Creative Writing & Travel Award for English Poetry & Literature
Deadline: 28 Apr 2025 » more details
Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition 2025
Deadline: 4 May 2025 » more details
Birr Writers’ Residency Award 2025
Deadline: 19 May 2025 » more details
Heroines Anthology - Volume 6
Deadline: 30 Jun 2025 » more details
The 2025 Poetry London Prize
Deadline: 30 Jun 2025 » more details
2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Deadline: 30 Jun 2025 » more details
Anthology Short Story Competition
Deadline: 31 Jul 2025 » more details
Anthology Poetry Competition
Deadline: 31 Oct 2025 » more details
Hour of Writes - Weekly Writing Competition
Deadline: 31 Dec 2025 » more details
Courses
The Seamus Heaney Poetry Summer School
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
The Stinging Fly Summer School
Deadline: 3 Apr 2025 » more details
Funding
South Dublin County Council Individual Bursary Awards 2025
Deadline: 3 Apr 2025 » more details
Arts and Disability Connect Round One 2025
Deadline: 7 May 2025 » more details
Kids & Teens
THE CATERPILLAR POETRY PRIZE 2025
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025 » more details
Open Mic Opportunities
Belfast: Purely Poetry at the Crescent Arts Centre
Please check with the organisers / venue that the event is still ongoing before you travel. » more details
Clare: Open Mic at Banner Books
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Cork: DeBarra’s Spoken Word
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Cork: Ó bhéal Poetry Readings & Open-mic Nights
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Dublin: Bilingual Takin’ the Mic
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Dublin: Dolcáin’s Cellar
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Dublin: Staccato
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Dublin: The Circle Sessions
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Dublin: The Intercollective
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Dublin: The Sunflower Sessions
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Galway: The Oil Slick
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Kerry: ‘Literary Listowel’ Readings
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Limerick: First Wednesday Series
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Online: Lime Square Poets
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Sligo: Illuminations
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Sligo: The Word
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Residencies
Anam Cara Writer’s and Artist’s Retreat
Bantry, County Cork » more details
Arvon Centre
Shropshire/West Yorkshire/Devon, UK » more details
Bere Island Creative Writing
Bantry Bay, Cork » more details
Birr Writers’ Residency Award 2025
Deadline: 19 May 2025 » more details
Circle of Misse
Loire Valley, France » more details
Connemara Writers’ Retreat
Renvyle, County Galway » more details
Fall into Focus - Residency program in Finland, Fall 2025
Deadline: 1 May 2025 » more details
Greywood Arts
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Half Door Writers’ Retreat
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Heroines Anthology - Volume 6
Deadline: 30 Jun 2025 » more details
Ireland Writing Retreat
Donegal » more details
La Muse Artists and Writers Retreat
Labastide-Esparbairenque, France » more details
Molly Keane Writers’ Retreat
Ardmore, County Wexford » more details
Old Rectory Retreat
Westport, County Mayo » more details
The Garsdale Retreat
Sedbergh, Cumbria, UK » more details
The Long Barn
Castlehaven Harbour, West Cork » more details
The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig
Newbliss, County Monaghan » more details
Workshops
Public Poetry Workshop with Victoria Kennefick
Runs April 5th, 11am – 1pm at Trinity College Dublin » more details
Writers' Groups
Clare Poetry Collective
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Creative Writing Groups at Dublin City Libraries
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Cruinniú na bhFilí (ar líne)
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Dublin: Frustrated Writers’ Group
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Limerick: Writepace
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Meath: Creative Writing Group (Bullsarse Writers)
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Meath: Navan Creative Writers
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Ranelagh: Writers’ Group
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Shut Up and Write!
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Spectrum Dublin Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers
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Tir Chonaill Writers
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Westport, Co. Mayo: SixPens Writing Group & Weekend Writing Retreat
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Write Club from Fighting Words
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Writing Groups at the Irish Writers Centre
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