Awards
Catherine Phil MacCarthy has won numerous awards and prizes:
| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Yeats Thoor Ballylee International Poetry Prize, for her poem “Emblems.” Link opens in a new window |
| 2022 | International Writers Fellowship, Varuna The Writers House, New South Wales, Australia (Link opens in new web page) |
| 2015 | IDEOGRAMMA: International Literary Festival Nicosia, Cyprus 2015 (hosted by LiIy Michaelides and Nora Hadjisotiriou); link to brochure | 2014 | The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota (link to page) |
| 2013 | Writer in Residence (Spring), Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris |
| Bursary in Literature, The Arts Council, An Comhairle Ealaíon | |
| 2012 | The Dromineer Literary Festival Poetry Prize, judged by Fiona Sampson |
| 2011 | The 9th Golden Boat Translation Workshop, Slovenia funded by Cuisle (Limerick Arts Office) |
| 2010 | The International Fish Poetry Prize, judged by Matthew Sweeney |
| 2007-2008 | Bursary in Literature, The Arts Council, An Comhairle Ealaíon |
| 2003 | Nomination, Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year |
| 1999 | Bursary in Literature, The Arts Council, An Comhairle Ealaíon |
| 1996 | Shortlisted for the RTE Radio 1 Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry Prize |
| 1994 | Bursary in Literature, The Arts Council, An Comhairle Ealaíon |
| 1992 | Runner-Up, Patrick Kavanagh Award |
| 1991 | Joint winner with Susan Connolly, Sense of Place Award, judged by Michael Longley and Philip Casey |
| 1990 | Winner, National Women’s Poetry Competition, The Works, Wexford Arts Centre |