FRIDAY JULY 4 8 pm
DAVID McLOGHLIN
David is a prize-winning poet and creative writing facilitator in memoir and poetry whose writing has been broadcast on WYNC’s Radiolab, appeared in film and published in journals of note on both sides of the Atlantic.
He is the author of three collections of poetry with Salmon Poetry, his latest, Crash Centre, was shortlisted for the 2025 Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers’ Week. In 2023 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship and was one of two poets to represent Ireland on the Versopolis European poetry platform. David has featured and taught at festivals including Cork International Poetry Festival, Literatur und Wein (Austria), Sofia Metaphors (Bulgaria), West Cork Literary Festival and Listowel Writers’ Week. He has taught creative writing and literature at University College, Dublin, New York University, The American College, Dublin, Coler Specialty Hospital, and Hunts Point Alliance for Children in the South Bronx where he was Resident Writer.
David facilitates creative writing classes widely in person and online and lives in the Cork area with his family.