Victoria Kennefick
Victoria Kennefick is an Irish poet. She has been an artist/poet/writer in residence for Cork County Council, University College Dublin and the Yeats Society.[1][2] She has been a recipient of bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland and Kerry County Council.[3][4] Her collection Eat or We Both Starve won the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize,[5][6] and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Costa Book Award for Poetry.[7]
Background
Kennefick comes from Shanagarry, County Cork.[8] She studied in University College Cork (UCC) and obtained a Fulbright scholarship, with terms attended in Emory University and Georgia College & State University.[4] She holds a doctorate in American literature from UCC.[4][9]
She was named Cork County Council writer-in-residence in December 2023.[10]
Personal life
Kennefick's father died while she was undertaking her doctoral work.[9] Kennefick lives in Tralee, County Kerry,[8] She has one child.[11]
Recognition and awards
Eat or We Both Starve won the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize,[5][6] and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2021.[4][12]
Her work was quoted on a Leaving Certificate exam paper in 2023.[8]
Works
- Kennefick, Victoria (2015). White Whale. Southward Editions. ISBN 9781905002405. OCLC 908450834.
- Kennefick, Victoria (2021). Eat or We Both Starve. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781800170711. OCLC 1226763665.
- Kennefick, Victoria (2024). Egg/Shell. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781800173842. OCLC 1410592356.
References
- ^ "UCD Writer in Residence 2023". University College Dublin - School of English Drama Film. 2023. Archived from the original on 27 February 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ^ "Victoria Kennefick - New Poet in Residence". Yeats Society Sligo. 12 May 2022. Archived from the original on 26 May 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ^ "Next Generation bursary 2016 - Kennefick, Victoria-171171103". Arts Council (Ireland). 17 January 2017. Archived from the original on 17 January 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Poet Victoria Kennefick shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize". University College Cork - Alumni and Development. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ a b "Queen's announces Victoria Kennefick as winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize". Queen's University Belfast. 23 June 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ a b "Announcing the winner for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2022". Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. 10 April 2019. Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ O’Donoghue, Denise (24 November 2021). "'It's really lovely for poetry': Cork poet shortlisted for £30k Costa Book Awards". Irish Examiner. Archived from the original on 17 January 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ^ a b c Dennehy, Fergus (12 June 2023). "Poem by Tralee based poet, Victoria Kennefick, appears on Leaving Cert". Irish Independent. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ a b Kennefick, Victoria (16 June 2015). "Victoria Kennefick on White Whale: navigating the poetry of grief". The Irish Times. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "Victoria Kennefick announced as Cork County Council Writer in Residence". Cork County Council. 1 December 2023. Archived from the original on 27 February 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ^ "Something For The Weekend: Victoria Kennefick's Cultural Picks". RTE.ie. 4 May 2022. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2024.
- ^ "T S Eliot Prize shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 15 October 2021. Archived from the original on 8 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024.