Bridget Sprouls (MA class 2013/14) has just won the fifth Fortnight Prize, sponsored by indie publisher, Eyewear, which offers a poetry prize every two weeks, as the name suggests. Eyewear’s Fortnight New Poem prize “is meant to celebrate poetry in a fast-paced digital world, where too often prizes are entered with interminable waiting times between submission and result”.

Bridget’s poem, “Chatter”,  was praised both for its “fluent, intelligent, skilful, and wonderful writing. A poem to share with friends and fellow poets, as a way to do poetry, thinking on one’s verbal feet…” and for its ending with its “knowing echoes” of Robert Frost and John Crowe Ransom.

You can read it here: http://toddswift.blogspot.ie/2017/08/the-winner-of-fifth-fortnight-prize-is.html

Meanwhile, current MA student Mona Lynch’s work with young travellers as part of the Cork Prison School exhibition currently on display on Spike Island.

Mona led a writing workshop as part of her Business of Writing module, and her students produced a booklet of their creative work entitled “Voices,”  which is on show on the historic island site.

Her classmate, Sue Dukes, has a memoir piece published this month in the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine,  a bi-annual online publication from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, North Carolina – http://sblaam.com/