Writing Competition Finalists
The judges were blown away by the standard and number of entries to the Mullingar Literary Festival’s first ever writing competitions. We are delighted to reveal the longlist and shortlist for both categories. The winners will be announced on Sunday, 5th July, in Caffrey’s Bar, Mount Street, Mullingar during the final evening of our festival.
Adult Short Story Contest
WINNER
The Emergency Plus One
Alan Fitzpatrick
Shortlist
Ariel | Anthony James Blackwell |
Beneath the Silver Tree | Serena Kennnedy |
Cheese | Barry Purcell |
Sea and Salthill | Steve Wade |
Shoeshine Boy | KZ Shaw |
The Bundle | Terry Kerins |
The Emergency Plus One | Alan Fitzpatrick |
The Grey Area | Shauna Donlon |
Threes and Sevens and Arcs and Tangents | R. M. Duffy |
What a Sentence is For | Timothy Collyer |
Who Shaves the Barber? | Aidan Casey |
Fun fact: 6 stories on our shortlist scored 65 out of 70. Four others scored 66.
Longlist
Bureau of Lost Ambition | Brendan Maurice Sheehy |
Ghostly Sepia Pictures | Marc Gijsemans |
I am without Shoes | Vincent Timoney |
It Won’t Stop Snowing | Roseanne McCullough |
Redemption | John P Saunders |
She was too Good for Them | Pat Kenny |
The Back Door | Katrina Gallagher |
The Final Push | Aisling McEvoy |
The Welcome Surprise | Joseph F O Hehir |
Adult Poetry Contest
WINNER
Haboob Divorce
Anne McDonald
Shortlist
Flapping Along at the Bottom of the Sky | Paul McMahon |
Grey Areas | Ellen Ní Chonchúir |
Haboob Divorce | Anne McDonald |
Lapilli | Anita Howard |
Surprise | Lee Sheridan |
Surprise Encounter | Maria-Justine Keena |
Longlist
A Tiny Casanova | Margaret Mc Carthy |
Early Years | Sophia Papageorgiou |
I made it Through | Joseph F O Hehir |
Love, Letter | Emma Nankova |
My Wife is a Narcissist | Jonathan Farrelly |
Not Long After | Steve Denehan |
Offspring | Anna Harrison |
Patience | Louise Cunningham Scott |
Phone Tracker | Laura Seymour |
Prey | Marie Hanna Curran |
Surprised Near Thomastown, Westmeath | Jimmy O’Connell |
The Act of Naming | Lewis Edward Shaw |
The Crowbar Brigade | Olivia Carroll |
The Mannequin’s Intimacy Co-ordinator | Glen Wilson |
things my mother says | Paul Coomey |