Jessica Traynor is a poet, essayist, librettist, and poetry editor at Banshee. Her debut collection, Liffey Swim (Dedalus Press, 2014), was shortlisted for the…
National Call-Out for Guest Poets for Rhymerag.net – online poetry journal for young people
Join the Rhyme Rag community and make your creative voice heard! Hi all! I’m Kathy D’Arcy, poet, activist and editor of the excellent online youth…
The Foyle Young Poets Award
Every year the Poetry Society (https://poetrysociety.org.uk/), a huge UK organisation dedicated to showcasing excellent poetry, runs a competition for young poets – The Foyle Young…
Young Kilkenny Writers Publish a New Poetry Collection, Mark my Words
Kilkenny Arts Office Rhyme Rag Ensemble established as a result of the Rhyme Rag, an online poetry journal for Kilkenny’s young writers The Kilkenny County…
Rhyme Rag New Word Leaders presents New Work; a poetry showcase on Culture Night
Culture Night offers a wonderful range of events free to the public. One the events of the evening features young poets reading their work at…
Workshops and Writing Tips
Hi all, I hope those of you in the middle of exams are doing ok! They’ll be over before you know it, and the summer…
Easter Holidays
Easter holidays used to be my favourite holidays of the year, because they seemed so unexpected and so very long and chocolate-filled. Now, I feel…
Rhyme Rag developing a Young Ensemble
Calling all young poets and writers! There is exciting news from Kilkenny Arts Office about its innovative poetry programme Rhyme Rag. Arts Officer Mary Butler…
New Year’s Writing Resolutions
Hi again everyone, January is generally a time to put new habits in place, so here are a few of my favourite books about creative…
Reasons to Still be Cheerful Even Though It’s September (a quick message from Rhyme Rag’s editor)
I was trying to think of a good poem to quote from in this post – Another September, by Thomas Kinsella? This Be The Verse,…