Calling aspiring poets: The Red Line Book Festival poetry competition

The Red Line Book Festival 2022 is calling on aspiring poets to submit their work for the festival’s poetry competition, with submissions being accepted until Monday, September 12.

Winners will be announced at an event during the Red Line Festival in October 2022 where they will be invited to read their winning poems.

The winning poets will also receive the following prizes: first place will receive €300, second place will get €200, while the third-place prize is €100.

Entries to the poetry competition can be submitted by filling out an entry form on the Red Line Book Festival website at redlinefestival.ie.

Entries should then be submitted by email to poetrycompetition@sdublincoco.ie, including your completed entry form and a single Word document containing your poem(s).

The poetry competition will be judged by poet, essayist, librettist, and poetry editor at Banshee, Jessica Traynor.

The four-day festival – which is a South Dublin County Council initiative –will run from October 13-16 this year.

The objective of the festival is to provide a platform for emerging and established talents to share their work with new audiences.

In 2020, the festival was largely held online as a result of the pandemic, and included Zoom workshops, talks with authors including Rob Doyle, Blindboy Boatclub and Sinéad Gleeson, and writing clinics.

Last year’s festival offered a blended programme of well-received online and offline events, while the programme for this year’s Red Line Book Festival will be released later this

month.