Evan Costigan writes non-fiction, fiction and poetry.
A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, his travel articles have appeared in international newspapers and magazines, including The Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, Get Lost! and Outsider. His travelogue Nowhere Fast: By Foot Across Mongolia, an account of his 90-day solo walk across that country, is forthcoming. He is represented by one of the UK’s leading literary agents, Camilla Shestopal. His travel photography has showcased at international events such as the Foreign Artists’ Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan. His short stories have been placed in national competitions, published in journals and broadcast on RTÉ radio’s Sunday Miscellany Programme. In 2014, he was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award.
He is a widely-published and multi-award-winning poet. His
poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, The Moth, The North, The Stony Thursday Book, Cyphers, Cúirt Annual, Abridged, Boyne Berries, The Lion Tamer Dreams of Office Work Anthology and both the 2018-19 and 2019-20 Best New British and Irish Poets from Eyewear Publishing. Selected for the 2016 Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, he is a past winner of the Boyle Poetry Competition and the Francis Ledwidge Poetry Award. In 2017 he won the Oliver Goldsmith Poetry Competition and the Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition. The recipient of several bursaries and residencies, he has been a featured reader at national and international festivals and events, including: Electric Picnic; International Literature Festival Dublin; Culture Night Dublin; Heart of the City festival, Vancouver; the Art Bar Series, Toronto; RCA Second Space, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Born in Dublin and raised in county Kildare, he has lived abroad for long periods – in Japan, Canada, South America, the U.S. and Australia. He now divides his time between the west of Ireland and Dublin where he works as an educational consultant and creative writing facilitator. He is a professional member of the Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin.