Award Presentation: Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry 2022

Join us for the announcement of the Winner of The Mairtin Crawford Award for Poetry 2022! 

The Award, named in honour of the writer and poet who was a significant figure in Northern Ireland's literary community, is in its 6th year. 

Judges of the Award 2022, Moyra Donaldson and Annemarie Ní Churreáin will be joined by William Leathem, Vice Chair, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, who will be presenting the Award. 

Thanks to NIPR Books, CILIP and The River Mill for all their continued support of the Award.

William Leathem was appointed to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland board in February 2021 as Vice-Chair. He is presently the Chair of Ulster Supported Employment Limited (USEL) and is a former elected member of Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, where he served as Chair of both the Development Committee and Governance and Audit Committee. He was a former member of the District Policing Partnership and a former Board Member of both the Ulster-Scots Agency and Libraries NI. He is also a board member of the Consumer Council NI, and chair of the grants committee with ACNI. He has a wide interest in the arts, particularly music, and how the arts can help and assist people with health-related conditions. 

Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from Northwest Donegal. Her books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), Town (The Salvage Press 2018) and The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021). Annemarie is a recipient of The Next Generation Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and a co-recipient of The Markievicz Award. She has been Writer-In-Residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany, Jack Kerouac House in Florida, and Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.She is 2022 Guest Editor of both The Cormorant Issue 7 and The Stony Thursday Book Issue 44. 

Moyra Donaldson is a poet and creative writing facilitator from Northern Ireland. She has published nine collections of poetry, including a limited-edition publication of artwork and poems, Blood Horses, in collaboration with artist Paddy Lennon. Her most recent collection of poems, Bone House, from Doire Press, was published in Spring 2021. In 2019, she received a Major Individual Artist award from Arts Council of Northern Ireland.