The Waxed Lemon

10/02/2025

**THE WAXED LEMON IS OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS**

We are now accepting submissions for Issue 9 from Monday Feb 10th to Sunday March 2nd. PLEASE NOTE: We have a new email address for all submissions - [email protected]

Please check out the submission guidelines on our website www.thewaxedlemon.com as submissions that fail to adhere to the guidelines cannot be considered.

Best of luck. We can't wait to see your work!

09/02/2025

07/02/2025

Come and join us tomorrow night, Friday 7 February, at 8pm in Phil Grimes Pub. Feast your ears on the words of poet Eleanor Ho**er and the music of Eva St Maria.

Strut your stuff in the open mic session; let us hear your fine words. Or simply come along and listen. Entry is €5 on the door, cash only.

30/01/2025

Denis Devlin Award 2025 | Irish Language Literature Bursary

Tá ríméad orainn Dámhachtain Denis Devlin a fhógairt mar chuid den Dámhachtain Sparánachta Litríochta don Ghaeilge.

Beidh gradam aon uaire de €20,000 á thairiscint d'ealaíontóir chun tabhairt faoina c(h)leachtas i bhfilíocht na Gaeilge.

Breis eolais: https://artscouncil.ie/Funds/Damhachtain-Sparanachta-Litriochta-don-Ghaeilge/

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

18/12/2024

✨🎄✨Pick up a copy of Issue 8 at The Book Centre Waterford or online at this link -

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06/12/2024

Issue 8 of The Waxed Lemon is now available to buy - instore and online - from The Book Centre, Waterford!

Click here: https://shop.thebookcentre.ie/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=9790000000282

Waterford City and County Libraries Waterford Arts Waterford City and County Council Creative Waterford

04/12/2024

Join Kemi George Simpson at Cork City Library’s CHRISTMAS POETRY WORKSHOP and pen a personal poem for your loved ones to make those Christmas cards pop!
December 7 Saturday at 11.00 am in City Library, Grand Parade.
Free and open to all. Booking essential, email [email protected]

04/12/2024

Take some time out for yourself to enjoy 'Glass Poems: Poetry Workshop for Adults' led by Grace Wilentz presented by The Hugh Lane Gallery on Saturday 7 December 2024 from 11am-4pm.

‘Glass Poems’ is a poetry workshop inspired by the leadership of Sarah Purser in establishing An Túr Gloine (‘The Tower of Glass’), which was instrumental in the resurgence of the art of stained glass in Ireland. Led by poet Grace Wilentz, this workshop will touch on Sarah Purser’s life and legacy, before visiting the Gallery’s Stained Glass Room.

Fee: €50.00
Advance booking required via Eventbrite

https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/glass-poems/

03/12/2024

The ArtLinks partners in Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford local authorities are pleased to announce that the Professional and Emerging ArtLinks Bursary Awards 2025 will be opening for submis…

29/11/2024

We'd like to extend our warmest congrats to previous Waxed Lemon contributor Eilin De Paor on winning the BEST POETRY award at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

Congrats also to another previous Waxed Lemon contributor Claire Lise Kieffer who publishes her debut collection of short stories TENTERHOOKS in Feb 2025.

Eilín's poem "Bábóg Bróige" and Claire-Lise's poem "Nursing Wolves" were featured in Issues 3 and 4 respectively. The Waxed Lemon is proud and honoured to continue to support new Irish writing and the Irish writers of the future.

18/11/2024

Congratulations to Fiona Ennis on her well-merited success!!!👏👏👏👏

The Arts Office congratulate former Molly Keane Creative Writing Award winner Fiona Ennis from Waterford, who has just won the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, a New York-based award. The judge was Wayetú Moore, whose work has been listed as a New York Times Notable Book and one of Time magazine's ten best non-fiction books of 2020.
Well done Fiona on keeping the Waterford flag flying.

18/11/2024

SpeakEasy is in a mere seven days, and we’re delighted to bring you Scott McKendry as our featured poet. Scott is from North Belfast. His poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, The Stinging Fly, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere.

Scott's pamphlet, Curfuffle (Lifeboat, 2019), was a Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice. In 2019, McKendry won a Patrick Kavanagh Award. In 2024 he was chosen by Paul Muldoon as Ireland Chair of Poetry’s Poet of Promise. His debut collection, GUB, is out now with Corsair (Little, Brown).