October 2026
Jim McElroy
Jim McElroy is winner of the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, the Francis Ledwidge Poetry Award, the Mairtín Crawford Award, the Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet Competition; also selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series and nominated for Irish poem of the Year, he is a double awardee of an Individual Artist Award by Arts Council NI, second prize winner at the Bridport Poetry Awards, and a commended prize winner in the National Poetry Competition. His winning pamphlet, We Are The Weather, will be published by Smith|Doorstop.
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1968 - 2026
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