Liz makes the shortlist for Hennessy Literary Awards
Spiddal-based writer, Liz Quirke, has been shortlisted for the 45th Hennessy Literary Awards in the Emerging Poetry category for two of her poems – Nurture and Juno.
She is one of six poets shortlisted in that category. The other categories are First Fiction and Emerging Fiction. Liz is the only Galway-based writer from a total shortlist of 18
The winners of each category will be announced at a ceremony in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, on Thursday April 28, as Hennessy reveals the winners in each category, as well as the overall Hennessy New Irish Writer for 2016.
The winners will be chosen by author Hugo Hamilton, poet Paul Perry, and New Irish Writing page editor, Ciaran Carty.
Thirty-one-year-old Liz Quirke is originally from Tralee, Co Kerry, and now lives in Spiddal with her wife and daughter.
Her poetry has appeared in The Irish Times, Southword, Revival Literary Journal, The Stony Thursday Book and other publications. She won the 2015 Poems for Patience Competition here in Galway and was shortlisted for the 2015 Cúirt New Writing Prize. Liz is currently working on her first collection.