I have a poem in here :) It's also the poem that won the Single Poem Award at Writers Week, and I'm so glad it found its home in Southword.

Had such a beautiful afternoon launching TheStormsJournal at Ardgillan Castle. Bravo again to all involved

NEW: announcing our 2025 Poetry Workshop with Annemarie Ní Churreáin. This new workshop will help poets working on developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (January to May 2025). Applications are now open and will close at 5pm on Monday 9th December. More information:

a smutty new poem in The New York Review of Books

Thank you so much to the Munster Literature Centre for including this poem in the latest Southword. Thanks also to Elaine Feeney for giving it a high commendation in the Cúirt New Writing Prize, and eternal gratitude to Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉 for selecting it for the Single Poem Award at Writers Week.

Story-a-Day 24 'Stella Tyge wasn’t herself. Last Saturday, as the smoke wafted from the spent candles of her thirty-fourth birthday cake, she renounced her birth name, and said she would answer to Stella no longer.' from 'Yesterday' by Finola Cahill theinterpretershouse.org/cahill-82

Still thinking about Oksana Maksymchuk’s powerful reading last night at the Seamus Heaney Centre. I keep returning to this poem. It’s from her latest collection, Still City.

Catch me reading at the the 12 minute mark of this episode of EatTheStorms the Poetry Podcast podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/eat…

A beauty from Olivia

A place for every Storm ⚡️ ‘This city is opportunity cost’ Fresh off the Boat is a poem by Finola Cahill featured in Issue 4 of The Storms, Dublin Days, from city to shore and across the sea, seen here by the Jeanie Johnston three-masted barque in the River Liffey

Ending the year on a real high having a poem in Poetry Ireland Review for the first time. Whatever about the publication, it is so nice to recognise so many people in the issue as friends I’ve met through the poetry community the last few years. Thanks again, Jessica Traynor

— Franz Kafka, 1912

Delighted to be reading at this. It’s a free event so bop along for poems and vino

“It’s dusk. Your daughter’s tall.” Thomas Lux 💙

put him in a pool and delete the ladder

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🥂🍾💃🏻 delighted!

Having received previous Arts Council funding now disqualifies you from the Agility Award. Obviously resources are limited but it’s hard to support this decision. What is out there to support artists in the massive middle ground between first agility award and a bursary?

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Honoured to have been selected as one of the recipients this year. ♥️