Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive! #waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm #micropoetry

The 2026 competition is now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who entered. We'll announce the longlist soon - stay tuned to waterfordrhyme.com #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrysky #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #waterford #waterfordrhyme

Timely article by Polly Rogers: www.waterford-news.ie/news/move-ov... #Poetry #writingcommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Writing #PoetryCompetition #PoetryPrompt #WritingContest #CallForSubmissions #ContestAlert #PoetryIsNotDead #MicroPoetry

Mr Butler Kyle works for WLR, reading the news, airing your views, he’s a radio superstar!

I am compiling an anthology of waterfords (waterfordrhyme.com) which will be published this August. If you want to be in this historic book, submit now to the competition. Each entry will be considered for the anthology. #Poetry #writingcommunity #Poets #PoetryPrompt #CallForSubmissions #MicroPoetry

Submissions close midnight on the 19th. Every entry this year is not only considered for the prizes, but also for an anthology published by West Waterford Press. You can be published even if you don’t win! Now’s the time to enter. #writingcommunity #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #ContestAlert

5? Just 5?! Act fast.

There is one week left to enter this year's Waterford Competition, judged by acclaimed poet @mollytwomey.bsky.social. The waterford is a new four line poetry form, invented by @kevinmacalan.bsky.social. Why not have a go? They're fun to write.

Just one week left! 😱 #Poetry #writingcommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Writing #PoetryCompetition #PoetryPrompt #WritingContest #CallForSubmissions #ContestAlert #PoetryIsNotDead #MicroPoetry

Ahah! I made the Fish Poetry Prize short list 🐟🐠🐡 - congratulations to the winners, that’s a whale of an achievement (see what I did there?). Yes, I know a whale isn’t a fish 🙄. Anyway, it’s at least a marlin of an achievement, or a stingray - a whale shark, maybe? It’s huge I tell ya, huge.

💥 GET YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW! 💥 The #thirdannualwaterfordcompetition closes 19 June. For full details, examples & entry form visit: waterfordrhyme.com #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrysky #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #waterford #waterfordrhyme #micropoetry

It’s hard to believe, but there’s just two weeks left to enter the biggest, third, and best waterford competition. See: waterfordrhyme.com #Poetry #writingcommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Writing #PoetryCompetition #WritingContest #CallForSubmissions #ContestAlert #PoetryIsNotDead #MicroPoetry

Oops a day late with our #weeklywaterford - can we blame the #BankHoliday and #heatwave?!? Enter your own waterfords to #annualwaterfordcompetition by 19 June: waterfordrhyme.com #waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm #micropoetry

Just 3 weeks left to enter. That’s less than a day per syllable. 😏 #Poetry #writingcommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Writing #PoetryCompetition #PoetryPrompt #WritingContest #CallForSubmissions #ContestAlert #PoetryIsNotDead #MicroPoetry #waterford

Thrilled to see my name on this list.

A lovely article in this week's Dungarvan Leader about this year's #annualwaterfordcompetition. Go to waterfordrhyme.com for full details and the entry form. There's a cash prize for the winner! Entries close 19 June. Get waterfording!

I don’t mean to be controversial, but this *isn’t* a waterford! There are too few syllables in the 1st line, and too many in the 3rd - it must be 8,4,4,8 - that’s the challenge. This would be disqualified from the competition, so always double check. #PoetryCommunity #ContestAlert #MicroPoetry

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive! #waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm

And it is launched! 🌕 🌊 Delighted to hold ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’ in my hand. 💫✨ @thegallerypress.bsky.social

And it’s open! Write a waterford, submit it at waterfordrhyme.com & maybe win €100. Simples. I can leave you all in peace now 😏 #Poetry #writingcommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Writing #PoetryCompetition #PoetryPrompt #WritingContest #CallForSubmissions #ContestAlert #PoetryIsNotDead #MicroPoetry

€100 for 24 syllables - a lot of writers should want in on that sort of action! 😁 #Poetry #writingcommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Writing #PoetryCompetition #PoetryPrompt #WritingContest #CallForSubmissions #ContestAlert #PoetryIsNotDead #MicroPoetry

Delighted to have a poem in the upcoming issue of The Martello. It’s just ten words long… you see, size isn’t everything. #Poetry #writingcommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Writing #PoetryIsNotDead #MicroPoetry

It’s nearly time. #Poetry #writingcommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Writing #PoetryCompetition #PoetryPrompt #WritingContest #CallForSubmissions #ContestAlert #PoetryIsNotDead #MicroPoetry

And look what came through my door this morning. Midnight at the Saltmarsh by @martinadalton.bsky.social - if the purpose of poetry is to capture emotion, then the last line of Geese is an exemplar. Well done Martina. #Poetry #writingcommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Writing #PoetryIsNotDead

A lovely #waterford from #misterwaterford himself @kevinmacalan.bsky.social

It’s worth saying, that to some, no amount of money is paltry. With this in mind, not wanting the fee to be a barrier to entry, those lovely people at @waterfordrhyme.bsky.social will accept free entry from those who cannot pay. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I’m with @poetryid.bsky.social on this. There’s nothing better you could do with such a paltry sum than enter the competition at waterfordrhyme.com #Poetry #writingcommunity #Poets #PoetryCompetition #PoetryPrompt #WritingContest #CallForSubmissions #ContestAlert #PoetryIsNotDead #MicroPoetry

This poster has too many exclamation marks!!!!! Please share it with the world and ridicule the designer (me). #Poetry #writingcommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poets #Writing #PoetryCompetition #PoetryPrompt #WritingContest #CallForSubmissions #ContestAlert #PoetryIsNotDead #MicroPoetry

Yes, the poems work well on the page, but hearing Lauren read them gives them extra vitality.

Only just getting around to mentioning the poetry lounge in Waterford on the 25th. Three readers, all brilliant. This lady @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social will disarm you with a joke then fell you with a single line. You think she’s throwing cushions, but they have bricks in them. #writingcommunity

Delighted with my copy of this. Yes, I am in it, but so are 16 really good writers, and the team at @thebrusselsreview.bsky.social must be some of the nicest people in publishing. #BookSky #LitMag #writingcommunity #ShortStories #ShortReads #SmallPress

This competition opens for submissions on May 9th. Visit waterfordrhyme.com - final details will be published over the next few days. @waterfordrhyme.bsky.social @westwaterfordag.bsky.social #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition

The biggest news so far of this year’s waterford competition @waterfordrhyme.bsky.social is that 2026’s judge is the outstanding poet @mollytwomey.bsky.social - team waterford is thrilled to have an opportunity to work with another Lismore legend. Last year it was @allgumsblazing.bsky.social !

Happy indeed that my short story “Wish You Were Here” is in this Spring issue of the Brussels Review. Happier still that I’ll have another story in the issue that follows! It’s like waiting for buses, nothing comes along for ages, then suddenly there’s a fleet. 😁

I had a wonderful time at Tsundoku last Sunday, at the International Centre for the Image, along with @christina-writer.bsky.social, @bredaspaight.bsky.social, and many others not on this platform. 😁

There sure is - watch this space: waterfordrhyme.com

The new waterford website is definitely waterfordrhyme.com - not whatever I said it was earlier! Sorry folks. @waterfordrhyme @allgumsblazing.bsky.social #writingcommunity

Ok, so I hinted at big news coming with respect to the waterford poetry format. It starts here with a new website, and will soon be overshadowed by the announcement of this year’s megastar judge (for the 3rd annual waterford competition). www.waterfordrhyme.com @waterfordrhyme #blueskypoets

Talking of the waterford at Tsundoku #writingcommunity

Small, but mighty. The waterford at its best. It can be a challenging format, but when mastered (like this) there’s poetry in every syllable.

Happy to see my name on this reading list, along with @christina-writer.bsky.social and @bredaspaight.bsky.social (and other luminaries not on this platform). 😁

Take heart that it’s noteworthy you wrote a terrible poem. For some of us, it’s kinda the norm.

I said too many to mention, but here’s one… thank you @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social for your captivating ekphrastics.

I had quite the day today thanks to Ger Duffy with @jesstraynor.bsky.social and far too many others to mention in Waterford City. Can’t help thinking poets will eventually save the world. Jess will at least try.

Fantastic Martina, I’ve ordered my copy. I hope it flies off the virtual shelves! 😁

Spring flowers are everywhere! 😎

A waterford about Waterford (other cities are available).

I particularly like “quiet mostly”! 😁

Beauty-ful.