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Mary Noonan’s first collection, The Fado House (Dedalus Press, 2012) was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and the Strong/Shine Award. Her second collection, Stone Girl (Dedalus Press, 2019), was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize in 2020. Dans un autre compartiment, a selection of poems translated to French by poet Valérie Rouzeau, was published by Apic Editions in June 2025. Mary’s poems have been published widely in journals and magazines, including Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review, PN Review, New England Review and The Threepenny Review. She has read her poetry at festivals including Cork International Poetry Festival, West Cork Literary Festival (Bantry), StAnza Festival (St Andrew’s), Versefest (Ottawa) and Poetry Fest (Irish Arts Centre, New York. marynoonan.ie. Mary Noonan at Dedalus Press.

1) Eligible mentorship candidates must be currently residing in Munster.

2) The mentorship would most benefit but is not exclusively available to someone who has some publication history already.

3) Candidates may apply to a maximum of two mentors, but no successful candidate can receive more than one mentorship.

4) Successful candidates must prove their Munster residency state and subscribe to the journal Southword before mentorships can begin.

5) Mentees must declare their capacity to access the mentorships by meeting the mentor in Cork at a place and time of mutual convenience, or by video link.

6) Mentees will be expected to supply a short report at the end of their mentorship.

7) Applicants must supply, (through Submittable) in one document, a short text explaining why they need the mentorship, a bio note listing any previous literary activity (publications, readings, workshops attended etc.), and five of their best poems. 

8) Mentorships will consist of four face-to-face, two-hour sessions between June – November.  Assignments may be given to work on between sessions.

9) This year past recipients of mentorships with the Munster Literature Centre may apply again.

Patrick Holloway is a prize-winning author of fiction and poetry. His debut novel, The Language of Remembering, was published to critical acclaim. His second novel, Interlude, is forthcoming with Eriu. He has won the Bath Short Story Prize, Flash 500, and the Molly Keane Creative Writing Prize. His work appears in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, The Moth, and Southword. He edits the literary journal The Four Faced Liar and he is the 2026 Writer in Residence at Maynooth University.

1) Eligible mentorship candidates must be currently residing in Munster.

2) Fiction writers must have had at least one short story or two flash fiction publication credits.

3) Candidates may apply to a maximum of two mentors, but no successful candidate can receive more than one mentorship.

4) Successful candidates must prove their Munster residency state and subscribe to the journal Southword before mentorships can begin.

5) Mentees must declare their capacity to access the mentorships by meeting the mentor in Cork at a place and time of mutual convenience.

6) Mentees will be expected to supply a short report at the end of their mentorship.

7) Fiction applicants must supply, through Submittable, a short text explaining why they need the mentorship, a bio note listing previous fiction activity (publications, readings, workshops attended etc.) and a sample text of your work, maximum 1500 words. 

8) Mentorships will consist of four face-to-face, two-hour sessions between June – November. Assignments may be given to work on between sessions.

9) This year previous recipients of a mentorship with the Munster Literature Centre may apply again.

David McLoghlin has sequenced and edited poems and collections for many poets, including a National Poetry Series winner. He excels at developmental editing and teaches poetry and memoir workshops with The Irish Writers Centre, The National Mentoring Programme, Cork Libraries, Poets House, and Poetry Ireland’s Writers in Schools programme. A recent winner of the Waterford Poetry Prize and a recipient of a 2025 Arts Council Literature Bursary, David is the author of three collections with Salmon Poetry, most recentlyCrash Centre(2024), shortlisted for the 2025 Pigott Poetry Prize, a book of the year on the Books for Breakfast podcast (“Each poem feels like a shard of broken glass, sharp, reflective, impossible to ignore…” ) and described as “a work unquestionably triumphant with poetic victories” by Thomas McCarthy.

   1) Eligible mentorship candidates must be currently residing in Munster.

2) Poets must have at least two journal publication credits.

3) Candidates may apply to a maximum of two mentors, but no successful candidate can receive more than one mentorship.

4) Successful candidates must prove their Munster residency state and subscribe to the journal Southword before mentorships can begin.

5) Mentees must declare their capacity to access the mentorships by meeting the mentor in Cork at a place and time of mutual convenience.

6) Mentees will be expected to supply a short report at the end of their mentorship.

7) Poet applicants must supply, (through Submittable) in one document, a short text explaining why they need the mentorship, a bio note listing any previous poetry activity (publications, readings, workshops attended etc.), and five of their best poems. 

8) Mentorships will consist of four face-to-face, two-hour sessions between June – November. Assignments may be given to work on between sessions.

9) This year previous mentees with the Munster Literature Centre may also apply again.

Billy O’Callaghan was born in Cork in 1974, and is the author of four short story collections: In Exile (2008, Mercier Press), In Too Deep (2009, Mercier Press), The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind (2013, New Island Books, winner of a 2013 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award and selected as Cork’s One City, One Book for 2017), and The Boatman (2020, Jonathan Cape and Harper (U.S.A.), as well as the novels The Dead House (2017, Brandon/O’Brien Press and 2018, Arcade/Skyhorse (USA) and My Coney Island Baby, (2019, Jonathan Cape and Harper (U.S.A.). His latest novel, Life Sentences, was published by Jonathan Cape in January 2021. Billy is the winner of a Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award for the short story, and twice a recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Bursary Award for Literature. Among numerous other honours, his story, The Boatman, was a finalist for the 2016 Costa Short Story Award.

1) Eligible mentorship candidates must be currently residing in Munster.

2) Fiction writers must have had at least one short story or two flash fiction publication credits.

3) Candidates may apply to a maximum of two mentors, but no successful candidate can receive more than one mentorship.

4) Successful candidates must prove their Munster residency state and subscribe to the journal Southword before mentorships can begin.

5) Mentees must declare their capacity to access the mentorships by meeting the mentor in Cork at a place and time of mutual convenience.

6) Mentees will be expected to supply a short report at the end of their mentorship.

7) Fiction applicants must supply, through Submittable, a short text explaining why they need the mentorship, a bio note listing previous fiction activity (publications, readings, workshops attended etc.) and a sample text of your work, maximum 1500 words. 

8) Mentorships will consist of four face-to-face, two-hour sessions between June – November. Assignments may be given to work on between sessions.

9) This year previous recipients of a mentorship with the Munster Literature Centre may apply again.