Mairtín Crawford Award: Preparing Poetry For Submission - In-person Workshop

With the Mairtín Crawford Award submission window closing on Wednesday 9 April, join judge of the Poetry Award Dawn Watson for a morning workshop aimed at poets seeking advice, guidance and practical approaches to assembling and presenting poetry for submission.

Dawn will speak broadly about her own experiences of Awards; the specificities of the Mairtín Crawford Award and practical approaches. Dawn will also be able to answer general questions in regard to preparing work for submission. 

Places for the in-person workshop are very limited so we recommend early booking. 

Traditionally the Award workshops been free. You can absolutely still sign up with no cost attached; but if you’d like to make a contribution to Crescent activity – as sometimes we get asked about - you’d be very welcome to. 

If you are unable to make this in-person workshop, join the judges for an online workshop. Click here for more information.

About the judge

Dawn Watson is the author of We Play Here (Granta Poetry) – a Guardian Poetry Book of the Year. It was shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2024 and the John Pollard International Poetry Prize for outstanding debut. The book was described as an “extraordinary, game-changing narrative long poem” by Luke Kennard. Dawn’s pamphlet The Stack of Owls is Getting Higher is published by The Emma Press. She completed a PhD in poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre in 2022. Dawn writes essays and short stories for BBC Radio 4, and her poetry and prose appear in leading journals such as Granta and The Poetry Review. She is the recipient of an ACES award and a General Arts Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Dawn is a former journalist and is currently a lecturer in poetry and prose at Queen’s University, Belfast.