Finola Cahill
@Finolala
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from Mayo, often à Paris. Now in Belfast. Writer. Waterford Poetry Prize 2023, @writersweek Single Poem Award 2024, Cúirt New Writing Prize 2025
Mayo, Ireland
Joined April 2009
Still can’t quite believe this happened — delighted to share that I won the Single Poem Award at @WritersWeek .Over the moon 🪇🎉💃🏻✨Thank you so much to @VKennefick for selecting my poem
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Honoured to have been selected as one of the recipients this year. ♥️.
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Student Award. The Trust has awarded the following students:. Lexie Ashcroft.Finola Cahill.Anne Marie Dunne.Olivia Heggarty.Noel Howley .Alexandra Karaim. Bios and more here: .
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🎉💃🏻🎉.
(1/5) Congratulations to the National Poetry Competition longlist!. Everyone on the longlist wrote a poem that stood out to the judges, Romalyn Ante, Stephen Sexton and John McAuliffe, out of over 21,000 other works. Well done to all of our longlisted poets!
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Having received previous Arts Council funding now disqualifies you from the Agility Award. Obviously resources are limited but it’s hard to support this decision. What is out there to support artists in the massive middle ground between first agility award and a bursary?
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🥂🍾💃🏻 delighted!.
Thrilled to have a poem highly commended in the @CuirtFestival New Writing Prize 2025 🖋️.Huge congratulations to @Finolala and to all the winners! 💫✨ .Enormous gratitude to @VKennefick for her kind words about my poem 🙏.
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Delighted to be reading at this. It’s a free event so bop along for poems and vino.
🎉 Join us for the launch of Poetry Ireland Review Issue 144, edited by Jessica Traynor. 📅 Tues 21 Jan, 6:30pm.📍 58 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.📩 RSVP Here: Readings by Kimberly Campanello, Róisín Kelly, Harry Clifton, Nicole Morris, Dolores Stewart.
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Ending the year on a real high having a poem in Poetry Ireland Review for the first time. Whatever about the publication, it is so nice to recognise so many people in the issue as friends I’ve met through the poetry community the last few years. Thanks again, @JessicaTraynor6
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RT @StormsJournal: A place for every Storm ⚡️. ‘This city is opportunity cost’. Fresh off the Boat is a poem by @Finolala featured in Issue….
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A beauty from @oliviaheggarty.
: Do you think of them? : Of course. : And miss them? .With all I have left. —from Olivia Heggarty's 'Conversation Between Job and his Wife Beginning with Job's Wife' in Propel 12. Read & listen to the full poem here >>
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Catch me reading at the the 12 minute mark of this episode of @EatTheStorms .
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Podcast Episode · Eat The Storms · 16/11/2024 · 3h 19m
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Still thinking about @ok_maksymchuk’s powerful reading last night at the Seamus Heaney Centre. I keep returning to this poem. It’s from her latest collection, Still City.
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RT @theinterpreter6: Story-a-Day 24. 'Stella Tyge wasn’t herself. Last Saturday, as the smoke wafted from the spent candles of her thirty-f….
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Thank you so much to the @MunLitCentre for including this poem in the latest Southword. Thanks also to Elaine Feeney for giving it a high commendation in the Cúirt New Writing Prize, and eternal gratitude to @VKennefick for selecting it for the Single Poem Award at Writers Week.
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RT @stingingfly: NEW: announcing our 2025 Poetry Workshop with @NiChurr. This new workshop will help poets working on developing a project….
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Had such a beautiful afternoon launching @StormsJournal at Ardgillan Castle. Bravo again to all involved
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I have a poem in here :) It's also the poem that won the Single Poem Award at Writers Week, and I'm so glad it found its home in Southword.
Southword issue 47 is now available including short stories, poems and essays from great writers. For more .information and details on how to order a copy go to
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