Opportunity: Eavan Boland Award 2025

The Eavan Boland Award returns for 2025, inviting early-career poets based in the UK and mid-career poets based in Ireland to apply.

The Eavan Boland Award, founded by Poetry Ireland in 2021 and now a biennial award, celebrates Eavan Boland’s role as a pathfinder, teacher and leader in the world of poetry. The Eavan Boland Award honours her legacy by fostering emerging and mid-career poets through two cross-residency opportunities at Trinity College Dublin with the School of English and University of Manchester at the Centre for New Writing. This year’s selectors are John McAuliffe, Professor of Poetry at University of Manchester, and Dr Rachael Hegarty, poet, educator and Dubliner.

The Eavan Boland Award is supported by Poetry Ireland, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), The University of Manchester, and the British Council Ireland.

In 2025, the Eavan Boland Award will support:

• UK Early-Career Poet Residency at TCD School of English: Two-week residency in November 2025 for UK-based poets who have not yet published a full collection. Includes €2,000 stipend, travel, accommodation, mentoring, and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Irish Mid-Career Poet Residency at the University of Manchester: Two-week residency in October 2025 for mid-career Irish poets (minimum one published collection). Includes €2,000 stipend, travel, accommodation, mentoring, and access to the John Rylands Library and Carcanet Press materials.

Applications are now open. The deadline for applications is Monday, 30 June 2025 at 5pm.

To apply and for more information, please visit poetryireland.ie/news