Seán Dunne Young Writers' Awards
This year’s Writers’ Award ceremony took place in Garter Lane on Friday March the 23rd. Presented by the Mayor of Waterford, Cllr. Pat Hayes, the ceremony featured the Sean Dunne Key note address by bestselling author Oisín McGann.
The Seán Dunne Young Writers’ Award is Waterford City Council’s long-term commemoration to the Writer, Editor and Poet Sean Dunne. It is held during the Waterford Writers’ Weekend which this year had a strong emphasis on the craft and art of writing.
For more on Oisín McGann, click here.
List of Winners
Click here for a list of the winners from the 2012 Sean Dunne Young Writer's Awards ...
Awards 2012
This year the National Senior Award was worth €1,500 for a creative work in Irish or English, €500 for the overall local Waterford winner and €250 for the nationwide junior award winner.
Who was Seán Dunne ?
Seán Dunne was a poet born in Waterford, Ireland.
Seán's collections of poems have all been well received, and in order of release are: "Against the Storm" (1985), "The Sheltered Nest" (1992) and "Time and the Island".
The account of his childhood "In My Father's House" was released in 1991, and was a bestseller.
