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The 2025 Allingham Poetry and Flash Fiction Competitions are open for entries through 28 September
Novelist and short story writer Nuala O’Connor will judge the entries in the 2025 Allingham Flash Fiction Competition.
She will also interview award-winning author Donal Ryan at the 2025 Allingham Festival. O’Connor’s sixth novel, Seaborne, about Irish-born pirate Anne Bonny, was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards, and it was nominated for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.
She won the Irish Short Story of the Year Award at the 2022 Irish Book Awards, and her novel Nora was selected as the One Dublin One Book choice for that year. Menagerie, her fifth poetry collection, has been published by Arlen House.
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The 2025 Allingham Poetry and Flash Fiction Competitions are open for entries through 28 September. Winning entries will be announced and read at the Literary Lunch on Saturday, November 8. Entry forms and competition rules are posted on-line at www.allinghamfestival.com.
Nuala O’Connor will also interview Donal Ryan, winner of the 2025 Orwell Prize for his novel Heart, Be at Peace at the Allingham Festival on Saturday afternoon, November 8, in the Abbey Centre. Details and tickets for all events, including the Literary Lunch and the Donal Ryan interview, will be available through the Festival website.
The 2025 Allingham Festival will take place in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal from 5-9 November. Headline events will include a keynote speech by human rights activist Nelofer Pazira, a performance of The Life and Times of Paddy Armstrong starring Don Wycherley, and an interview with broadcaster John Creedon.
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