Roscommon New Writing Awards 2025 underway
Roscommon poet Jane Clarke will be the adjudicator for the Roscommon New Writing Awards 2025.
The Roscommon New Writing Awards 2025 are up and running.
Organised as part of the county’s Literary Development Programme and funded by Roscommon County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland, the awards are also supported by the Roscommon Herald.
Two winners will each receive a monetary prize of €500 for short fiction or €500 for poetry and will have their winning entry printed in the Roscommon Herald. Two runners-up will receive €100 each for short fiction or for poetry.
The 2025 competition will be adjudicated by Jane Clarke. Jane Clarke is the author of three poetry collections, The River (2015), When the Tree Falls (2019) and A Change in the Air (2023) published by Bloodaxe Books. She edited the illustrated anthology Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect (Hachette Books Ireland, 2023).
Jane received an Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary Award in 2024 for the completion of her fourth collection. Her most recent collection, A Change in the Air, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 and the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023.
Jane grew up on a farm in county Roscommon and now lives with her wife in the uplands of county Wicklow.
Closing date for entries is 4 p.m. on Monday, May 26th. Information on : https://www.roscommoncoco.ie/en/services/community/arts-office/literature.html
