Karen is a poet and short-story writer and her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Her poetry has been translated into French, Dutch and Irish. Karen's Poetry has been;
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Winner of the Kinsale Literary Festival Poetry Award 2019
Winner of the Allingham Festival Award For Poetry 2017
Winner of the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Awards 2017
Awarded 2nd Prize Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Award 2017
Awarded 3rd Prize North West Words Poetry Prize 2014
Runner Up in the Trócaire Poetry Ireland Poetry Competition 2014
Winner of Listowel Writers' Week Single Poem Prize 2013
Awarded 2nd Prize in the Millwheel Writers Poetry Competition 2012
Awarded 2nd Prize in the Clogh Writers 10th Poetry Competition in October 2006
Winner of the End Of Festival SLAM at the West Cork Literary Festival in July 2006
Karen also has a passion for short fiction, for which she has won The Nora Fahy Literary Award.
Magazines/Journals/Other:
- Channel Magazine Issue 1 2019 (Editors: Cassia Gaden Gilmartin & Elizabeth Murtough)
- Dodging The Rain Literary Journal June 1st 2019
- Dodging The Rain Literary Journal May 20th 2019
- The Shop Issue 40 December 2012
- Life-Lines: A Menu of Poems Oct 2012
- The Shop Issue 36 July 2011
- The Stony Thursday Book (Editor: Mark Whealan) Oct 2010
- The Shop Issue 33 August 2010
- The Shop Issue 31 Nov 09
- The Sharp Review Feb 09
- Revival Issue 10 January 2009
- Evening ECHO 31st March 07 - Short Story
- The Stinging Fly (issue 6/V2) Spring 07
- Revival Issue 1 October 06
- Evening ECHO 26/8/06 - Short Story
- Galway Xposed
- Sunday Independent 16/7/06
- Village (Issue 30)
- Agenda (Vol:40 1-3 )
- The Shop (Issue: 6,14,16)
- Southword (Issue: 5, 7)
- Departures (Vol: 3) - Short Story
- Asylum Arts Journal (Pauline Bewick Special Edition) - Article
- Podium (III, IV, V)
- The Cork Literary Review (Issue: IV) - Short Story
- Women's Work (VIII, IX, X) Runner-up in the National Women's Poetry Competition
- Read IT (Issue: 7)
- Beléire Gazette (4/97, 3/97,1/97, 1/96)
Anthologies:
- Future Perfect Anthology (Editor: Mary Shine Thompson) 2019
- Wild Atlantic Words Anthology 2016
- Wild Atlantic Words Anthology 2015
- It's Up To Us Poetry Ireland Anthology 2014
- 10 Years in the Doghouse 2013
- Poets Meet Painters Anthology 2012
- Anthology for a River 2012
- Prairie Schooner Ireland Vol 85 No. 4 2011
- Poems from Phizzfest Anthology 2011
- Poet Meets Painter Online Anthology 2011
- Poet Meets Painter Anthology 2010 (Editor: Cherry Smyth)
- Sixty Poems - Haiti Anthology 2010 (Editor: Maggie Harris)
- Real Imaginings Anthology May 2009
- 8th Ware Poetry Anthology 2006
- l'Estracelle 2006 Maison De La Poesie France
- The Doghouse Book of Ballad Poems (Editor: Noel King)
- The Mermaids Purse - Anthology of Haiku (Editor: Emma Cooke)
- The Heart of Kerry (Editor: Noel King) Short Story
- Jumping The Bus Queue (Editor: Mary Rose Callaghan)
- Le Cercle De La Rotonde (Editor: Marie-Clotilde Roose)
- Cúm (Editor: Moya Cannon)
- Muze (Editor: Anne-Marie Glasheen & Stella Bellem)
Readings:
Karen has given readings at numerous venues including:- ÓBhéal, The Long Valley Cork 18th February 2019
- Wild Atlantic Words Awards Reading Sarah Walker Gallery,Castletownbere September 2016
- Culture Night, Caifé na Caolóige, Ballyferriter, September 2014
- The Glens Centre Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, August 2014
- St. John's Church, Tralee, June 2014
- National Library of Ireland 28th May 2014 Trócaire Poetry Ireland Awards Reading
- Radio Kerry Saturday Supplement 10th May 2014 LISTEN HERE
- 10 Years in the Doghouse, Tralee October 2013
- Radio Kerry Talk About Programme October 2013
- On the Nail, Limerick, 6th August 2013
- Fermoy International Poetry Festival 4th August 2013
- On The Nail 5th February, 2013 Limerick WATCH HERE
- Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase 10th February, 2012 Galway
- RTE Radio 1 Arena Arts Programme 22nd August 2011
- West Cork Literary Festival July 2011
- Siamsa Tire Theatre Launch of Between The Lines June 2011
- Bealtaine Festival Tralee Probus May 2011
- Poetry Aloud - Killorglin Community College April 2011
- Poets In The Doghouse 4 - Siamsa Tire Theatre March 2011
- ÓBhéal Reading April 2009
- Samhlaíocht Easter Arts Festival (Tralee) April 07
- Féile na mBláth (Tralee) June 06
- Reubens Café (Tralee) March 06
- Mercy Secondary School (Tralee) Feb 06
- Reubens Café (Tralee) November 05
- Reubens Café (Tralee) October 05
- White House (Limerick) July 05
- Féile na mBláth (Tralee) June 05
- Poetry Ireland Introductions Series (Dublin) May 05
- Siamsa Tire Theatre (Tralee) April 05
- Inscribing the Island Literary Festival (Kent)
- Banteer Heritage Centre, Cork (with Patrick Galvin and Gabriel Fitzmaurice)
- Scribblers - Bank Holiday Mondays (Tralee)
