Awards & Publications
Publications
Forthcoming Poetry
- The Death of a Foal - Southward
- Where i’m not even a bad simile - Skylight 47
Forthcoming Fiction
- What Are You After? - Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2024
Recent Poetry
- 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
- 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 - Cuirt New Writing Prize 2024, judged by Elaine Feeney
Highly Commended - Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition 2023
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 - 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
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
- Seamus Heaney Summer School 2023
- Stinging Fly Fiction Summer School 2023
- Stinging Fly Six Month Workshop 2023/2024