Poet Kate Newmann to judge the Allingham festival poetry competition
The 2023 Allingham Poetry Competition is currently open for entries, with a deadline of September 22. The winning poet will win a €300 prize, and the first, second and third place winners will read their work in an online awards ceremony on Friday, November 10
Poet and publisher Kate Newmann will judge the entries to the 2023 Allingham Festival poetry competition.
A co-director of Summer Palace Press, which has published 56 collections of poetry since 1999, Kate Newmann is the author of five collections of poetry.
She served as Director of the Belmullet Writers' Festival and has judged many poetry competitions, including Northwest Words and Concern Worldwide. She read English at King's College Cambridge and earned MA degrees from Ulster University and from
Cambridge.
She has written the lives of her antecedents in poems, and she was herself a winner of the Allingham Poetry Competition in 1998. The 2023 Allingham Poetry Competition is currently open for entries, with a deadline of September 22. The winning poet will win a €300 prize, and the first, second and third place winners will read their work in an online awards ceremony on Friday, November 10.
Full details and entry forms for the Allingham Poetry and Flash Fiction Competitions here. The 2023 Allingham Festival will take place in Ballyshannon from November 8-12.
Headline events will include a conversation with best-selling author Liz Nugent, a concert by soprano Regina Nathan, an interview with veteran actor Sean McGinley, and a speech by Ombudsman for Children Niall Muldoon.
Festival information is posted online here.