Mentorship in Memoir with David McLoghlin 2025
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David McLoghlin is a writer of memoir and creative nonfiction and a poet. He has mentored in memoir and creative nonfiction for The National Mentoring Programme and taught memoir workshops extensively for The Irish Writers Centre, The Center For Fiction, Hudson Valley Writers Center and The Shipman Agency. He also facilitates life writing workshops via Cork County Council and Cork Libraries, as well as independently via Zoom. His third book, Crash Centre, was shortlisted for the 2025 Pigott Prize in association with Listowel Writers’ Week. He has received fellowships from The Sewanee Writers Conference and New York University, where he was an MFA candidate, and a major Arts Council Literature Bursary for a memoir project. His essays have been commissioned for Poetry Foundation's website, and published in New Hibernia Review, University of Michigan Press (forthcoming) and anthologised in Others Will Enter the Gates: Immigrant Poets on Poetry, Influences, and Writing in America (Black Lawrence Press, 2015) and Distant Summers: Remembering Philip Casey (Arlen House, 2024). An immersive essay about playing, as a novice, a golf course designed by his grandfather, Eddie Hackett, “the father of Irish golf design” is forthcoming from Golfer's Journal in the USA. He is at work on a memoir and a fourth collection of poetry. www.davidmcloghlin.com
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 a five page sample of their memoir writing.
8) Mentorships will consist of four face-to-face, two-hour sessions between October – December.
9)This year past recipients of mentorships with the Munster Literature Centre may apply again.