Galway-based poet, Mary Madec, has won The Sunday Tribune Hennessy Award for New Irish Poetry.
The announcement was made at a gala lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel in Dublin earlier today. Mary is a participant in the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre and will be reading at this year's Cúirt Festival Over The Edge Showcase Reading at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway on Thursday, April 24th at 11am.