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
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Highly Commended - Four Faced Liar Poetry Competition 2025
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Highly Commended - Cuirt New Writing Prize 2024, judged by Elaine Feeney
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Highly Commended - Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition 2023
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Shortlisted - Bridport Poetry Prize 2025
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Shortlisted - Write By The Sea 2024
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Shortlisted - Fish Poetry Prize 2023, judged by Billy Collins
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Shortlisted - Bridport Prize 2023 (two poems)
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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.’
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Longlisted - Wasifiri Poetry Prize 2025
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Longlisted - The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2025
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Longlisted - The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2025
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Longlisted - The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2024
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Longlisted - The Brotherton Prize 2023
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Longlisted - Cheltenham Poetry Prize 2023, judged by Joseph Fasano
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Commended - Cathal Bui Poetry Competition 2023
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Awarded 2024 Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary from Mayo Arts Office
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Selected for 2023 Irish Writers Centre Mentorship programme. Generously sponsored by the Mayo Arts Office See Press Article
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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