Jim McElroy is a Commended prize winner of the National Poetry Competition 2025 for ‘Coming of Age’.
Jim’s prizes include the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, the Francis Ledwidge Poetry Award, the Mairtín Crawford Poetry Award, the Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet Competition and Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series. Second-prize winner at the Bridport Poetry awards and double awardee of Individual Artist Awards from Arts Council NI, his poem ‘Unmaking His Chair’ was nominated for 2022 Irish Poem of The Year. His chapbook, We Are The Weather, is published by Smith|Doorstop
