News – Evan Costigan Writer

2022 – 2024

I’m delighted to have signed with one of the UK’s leading literary agencies, Shesto Literary. Camilla Shestopal will represent my non-fiction debut, Nowhere Fast: By Foot Across Mongolia. You can read my biography on their website here.
Completed my first full book, Nowhere Fast: By Foot Across Mongolia, an account of my 90-day solo trek across that country.

PUBLICATIONS

Selected for inclusion in the 2019-21 Best New British and Irish Poets anthology from The Black Spring Press Group (launch 12th September in London). Order your copy here.

I was one of five poets reading at the Prebooked Poetry Introductions, Grand Parade Library, Cork in March. The event was part of the Cork International Poetry Festival 2019. More details http://www.corkpoetryfest.net/friday.html

AWARDS & BURSARIES

PUBLICATIONS

Issue 61 of The North. This special Irish issue, edited by Jane Clarke and Nessa O’Mahony, is due out in December 2018.
Red Line Book Festival Poetry Chapbook: featuring the work of poets who have won or been placed in the Red Line Competition since its inception. The launch is in the Civic Theatre, Tallaght, on Wednesday 10th October 2018.
Selected for inclusion in the 2018 Best New British and Irish Poets anthology from Eyewear Publishing. The main UK launch is in Brixton, London, at the famous indie music venue, the Windmill, on Sunday 13th May.

READINGS

Featured reader at The Winding Stair Bookshop, Dublin on Culture Night (2016).
Featured reader at Mindfield (Word Stage), Electric Picnic.
Featured reader at The Liquor Rooms as part of the International Literature Festival Dublin (2016).
Featured reader at At The Edge, Cavan (May 2016).
Featured reader at The Circle Sessions, The International Bar, Dublin (January 2016).

AWARDS & BURSARIES

1st place in the Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition.
1st place in the Oliver Goldsmith Poetry Competition.
Runner up in the Dermot Healy International Poetry Award.
Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary Award from Kildare County Council Arts Service.
3rd place in the Over the Edge Writer of the Year Competition.
3rd place in the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Competition.
Shortlisted in the Doolin Writers’ Competition.
Cill Rialaig Artists’ Retreat: selected for a two-week residency.
West Under a Blue Sky made the nine-person longlist for the New Welsh Writing Travel Awards (2016).
Selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series (2016).
Shortlisted in the Doolin Writers’ Competition (2016).
Shortlisted in the Red Line Poetry Competition (2016).
Arts Act Grant from Kildare County Council Arts Service (2016).

PUBLICATIONS

Three poems published in The Lion Tamer Dreams of Office Work anthology (Alba Publishing, 2015).
A Hundred Gourds online (December 2015).
New Irish Writing, The Irish Times (February 2015).
RTÉ’s Sunday Miscellany Programme (2013).
Burning Bush 2 (June 2013).
Two poems published in New Irish Writing, Irish Independent (April 2013).
Boyne Berries 12 (2012).
Three poems published in Census 3 Anthology (2012).
Cyphers 72 (Autumn/Winter 2011).
Ko-e magazine, Japan (July/August 2011). Translation in Japanese by Shoichi Miyamura.
Boyne Berries 10 (2011).
Haiku J (May 2011).
The Moth (March 2011). Also the featured poem on The Moth website for this issue.
Riposte (February 2011).
Get Lost! Magazine Australia Issue 24 (2010).
Boyne Berries 8 (2010).
Kritya International (July 2009).
Boyne Berries 5 (2009).
Shamrock Haiku Journal 10 (2009).
Cúirt Annual (2009).
Sunday Business Post (December 2008).
Boyne Berries 4 (2008).
Boyne Berries 3 (2008).
Revival 8 (Summer 2008).
Crannóg (Summer 2008).
The Irish Times (November 22^nd 2008).
Outsider Magazine (March 2008).
Words on the Web 5 (2007).
Boyne Berries 2 (2007).
The Irish Psychologist (April 2005).

READINGS

Featured reader at Culture Night at The Winding Stair Bookshop (2015).
Featured reader at Ó’Bhéal, Cork (June 2015).
Featured reader at On The Nail Literary Gathering, Limerick (May 2015).
Featured reader at the Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John’s, Newfoundland (July 2014).
Featured reader at the Heart of the City festival, Vancouver, Canada (October 2013).
Featured reader at the Art Bar Series, Toronto, Canada (June 2013).

AWARDS & BURSARIES

Shortlisted in the Red Line Poetry Competition (2013, 2014, 2015).
1^st place in the Boyle Arts Festival Poetry Competition (2015).
Shortlisted in the Hennessy Literary Awards, Emerging Poetry category (2014).
Nominated for the Forward Prize UK – Single Poem category (2013).
Shortlisted in the Listowel Writers’ Week Single Poem Competition (2013).
Shortlisted in the Boyle Arts Festival Poetry Competition (2007, 2013).
Shortlisted in the North West Words Poetry Competition (2013).
1^st place in the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award (2013).
Cill Rialaig Artists’ Retreat: selected for a two-week residency (April 2013).
Shortlisted in the Over the Edge Writer of the Year Competition (2009, 2010, 2012).
Commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition (2012).
Tyrone Guthrie Residency Bursary Award from Kildare County Council Arts Service (2012).
Shortlisted in the Bridport Poetry Prize (2011).
Longlisted in the Strokestown International Poetry Prize (2011).
3^rd place in The Golden Pen Award (2011).
Highly commended in the Dromineer Poetry Competition (2010).
Nominated for the Forward Prize UK – Single Poem category (2009).
3^rd place in the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award (2009).