The 2025 Allingham Poetry and Flash Fiction Competitions are open! First-place winners will each receive a prize of €300. Deadline for entries is Sunday, September 28. Competition rules, entry forms and Festival details are posted on the Allingham Festival website.

The Festival will run from 5-9 November in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal. Winning entries will be read and the Poetry and Flash Fiction Awards presented at the Literary Lunch on Saturday, 8 November.

Poet and publisher Kate Newmann will judge this year’s Poetry Competition entries. The winning poet will also receive the Francis Harvey Poetry Award. Acclaimed author Nuala O’Connor will judge the Flash Fiction entries. The winner of the Flash Fiction Competition will also be awarded the Keane Family Fiction Prize.