Open Call for Poetry for the 2024 Edition of the Stony Thursday Book. Lynn Caldwell, Christodoulos Makris and Natasha Cuddington pictured with Cllr Gerald Mitchell pictured at the launch of 2023 Stony Thursday Poetry Book which took place at the Belltable Theatre, O’Connell Street, Limerick. Pic: Don Moloney
The 2024 Stony Thursday Book is seeking submissions from local, national and international poets for its next issue, to be published in Autumn/Winter 2024
The Stony Thursday Book is one of the longest-running literary journals in Ireland and this will be its 46th edition, No.20 in the new series, funded by The Arts Council & Limerick City and County Council.
Founded by Limerick poets John Liddy and Jim Burke in 1975, Stony Thursday has been edited by poets such as Mark Whelan, Kevin Byrne, Patrick Bourke, Knute Skinner, Thomas McCarthy, Ciarán O’Driscoll, Mary Coll, Jo Slade, Paddy Bushe, Peter Sirr, Mary O’Donnell, John Davies, Nessa O’Mahony, Martin Dyar, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, and Christodoulos Makris.
Limerick City and County Council Arts Office is delighted to announce that this year’s Editor of the Stony Thursday Poetry Book is poet, writer and teacher, from Shanagarry, Co Cork, Victoria Kennefick.
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Etain McCooey, Arts Officer with Limerick City and County Council said: “The Arts Office is delighted to welcome award-winning Victoria Kennefick as the editor of The Stony Thursday Book this year. I am looking forward to the unique perspective Victoria will bring to this important poetry collection, a literary publication that has given so many writers an opportunity to see their work published.”
Expressing her pleasure at the appointment, Victoria Kennefick commented, “I am delighted and honoured to be appointed editor of this year’s Stony Thursday Poetry Book. A poetry anthology like this is such an important space for writers in and from Limerick and beyond to showcase their work and share it with their community. Not only that, it is a document of the creative talents and vibrancy of the art community that will be treasured and referred to by writers in the future. I am so excited to read the submissions so please send me your best work.”
Victoria Kennefick’s debut collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Butler Literary Prize. A UCD/Arts Council of Ireland Writer-in-Residence 2023 and Poet-in-Residence at the Yeats Society Sligo 2022-2023, Victoria is now Cork County Council Writer-in-Residence 2024. Her second collection, Egg/Shell (Carcanet Press, 2024) was a PBS Choice for Spring 2024. https://www.victoriakennefick.com/
Closing date for receipt of poetry submissions has been extended until 5pm, Monday 22nd July 2024.
Submissions to the Stony Thursday Book can be made here
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