Poet and publisher Kate Newmann has been announced as the judge for the 2024 Allingham Festival Poetry Competition in Ballyshannon.
Set to take place from November 6 to 10 in the County Donegal town, the festival's headline events will feature a keynote speech by broadcaster Richard Curran, and a concert featuring delta-blues prodigy Muireann Bradley.
The winner of the poetry competition will be rewarded with a €300 prize and receive the prestigious annual Francis Harvey Award.
More details and application forms can be found at https://tinyurl.com/mssvv9mc.
Newmann is the co-director of Summer Palace Press, which has published 56 collections of poetry since 1999.
She authored five collections of poetry and her next collection will be published in 2025.
She studied English at King's College Cambridge and has served as director of the Belmullet Writers' Festival.
The Francis Harvey Award, first given in 2023, commemorates the Donegal poet who is often compared to the likes of Norman MacCaig, RS Thomas, and Japanese haiku master, Basho.
The 2024 winner's name will be inscribed into a glass sculpture symbolising Harvey's poem, 'Heron', which is a former World Wildlife Fund poetry competition winner.
Alongside this, the competition's first-, second- and third-place winners will present their work at the awards ceremony on November 9 along with the winners of the Allingham Flash Fiction Competition.
The 2024 Allingham Poetry Competition is currently open for entries, with a deadline of September 29.
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