Description
Fiona Smith’s chapbook Travellers of the North was published by Arc Publications in 2022. She has had poetry published in Southword, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stony Thursday Book, Hennessy New Irish Writing, the Templar Poetry Anthology Skein and the Over the Edge anthology. She won the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year 2012 and was runner up in the Oliver Goldsmith competition 2017.
She has been selected by Poetry Ireland for master classes at the Kilkenny Arts Festival including with Eavan Boland in 2018 and was awarded a mentorship with Paula Bohince by the Munster Literature Centre in 2020.
She has read at the Derwent Arts Festival, Cork Spring Poetry Festival, Skibbereen Arts Festival, Words by the Water and Kinsale Arts Festival. She has also performed in Galway, at Charlie Byrne’s bookshop and the Crane pub. She has contributed to Sunday Miscellany and her poetry has been displayed in Fitzgerald Park, Cork
