Awards & Publications
Publications
Recent Fiction
- Yesterday - The Interpreter’s House
- What Are You After? - Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2024
- Tenebris Capra - The Garden Anthology, Sans Press
Recent Poetry
- A Girls’ Day Out at the Pol Gorm - The Waxed Lemon, Issue 9
- The girl was eaten by moths? Yes, - Skylight 47, Issue 20
- Home Improvements - The Apiary, Issue 8
- Leave Well Enough Alone - Crannog, Issue 62
- On the Dart to Bray, - The Cormorant, Issue 9
- Auditory Hallucinations - Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 144
- The Death of a Foal - Southward, Issue 47
- Fresh off The Boat - The Storms IV
- Where i’m not even a bad simile - Skylight 47, Issue 19
- Occurrences - The Honest Ulsterman
- It Was a Mime Actually - The Broken Spine
- Go Fish - The Lighthouse
- Aristotle’s Wheel - Loft Books
- He never got back to me - Propel Magazine
- Underwater Basket Weaving - Trasna
- Forêt - Stony Thursday Book, No.19
- Plague Diary - Week XI - Stonecoast Review
- Togs - Fat Éire
- Leaving O’Keeffe - An Capall Dorcha
- Negative Space - Paris Lit Up
- Delph - The London Magazine
Awards
Poetry Awards
Highly Commended - Four Faced Liar Poetry Competition 2025
Highly Commended - Cuirt New Writing Prize 2024, judged by Elaine Feeney
Highly Commended - Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition 2023
Shortlisted - Bridport Poetry Prize 2025
Shortlisted - Write By The Sea 2024
Shortlisted - Fish Poetry Prize 2023, judged by Billy Collins
Shortlisted - Bridport Prize 2023 (two poems)
Shortlisted - Listowel Writers Week Collection Award 2023. Judge, John W.Sexton said: ‘[Finola Cahill’s sample collection] is an exceptional series of poems in a non-tangential surrealist register, each so well-crafted that they excel as vehicles of metaphor. These pieces mock so perfectly from their hidden, secret hearts, that the reader is forced into wakefulness. A poem that reveals itself by hiding itself, like the inversions in a cubist painting, is an admirable achievement. This collection is full of them.’
Longlisted - Wasifiri Poetry Prize 2025
Longlisted - The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2025
Longlisted - The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2025
Longlisted - The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2024
Longlisted - The Brotherton Prize 2023
Longlisted - Cheltenham Poetry Prize 2023, judged by Joseph Fasano
Commended - Cathal Bui Poetry Competition 2023
Awarded 2024 Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary from Mayo Arts Office
Selected for 2023 Irish Writers Centre Mentorship programme. Generously sponsored by the Mayo Arts Office See Press Article
Arts Council Agility Award round 2 recipient 2023
Fiction Awards
- Shortlisted - Máirtín Crawford Short Story Award 2024, judged by Wendy Erskine and Lucy Caldwell
- Shortlisted - Bath Short Story Award 2024
- Nominated - Pushcart Award 2024, Tenebris Capra
Press
- Ballina woman wins major prize at Listowel Writers Week
- Mayo writer scoops prestigious award at top Irish writers festival
- Mayo Woman Claims Top Poetry Prize
Winners of the Waterford Poetry Prize 2023 Announced - Mayo writer among winners
- Ballina woman claims first place at Waterford Poetry Prize
- Ballina writer and musician wins prestigious award
- Art in the blood: Ellen Quinn Banville and Finola Cahill
- Ballina Writer selected for National Mentoring Programme
Workshops & Events
- Moderator - A Conversation with Colin Barrett for Ballina Fringe Festival 2025
- Facilitator - Poetry Day Ireland 2024 Community Workshop
- Participant Stinging Fly Poetry Summer School 2024
- Participant Stinging Fly Six Month Workshop 2023/2024
- Participant Seamus Heaney Summer School 2023
- Participant Stinging Fly Fiction Summer School 2023