​JOURNALS AND ANTHOLOGIES

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2026

‘The girl I saw in Avilés’ forthcoming (Aug 12) in After;

2025

‘Flypast’ in Mslexia; ‘Bread Mountain’, ‘Learning a Trade’ and ‘Monitors’ (in Stand 244); ‘Spiders sense the world through vibrations’ (Pomegranate- London); ‘Red as a fairytale‘ (Ink, Sweat & Tears); ‘Grandmother’s footsteps’. AgeUk; ‘How to mourn a sister’ Live Canon Single Poem competition anthology; ‘me & tree’, ‘signature piece’ and ‘some marys’ in Obsessed with Pipework; ‘How to draw her name in air’ in Ware Poetry Prize Anthology; ‘As I searched for the best window to view the moon’ forthcoming in Leeds University’s Before the Party; ‘Eldest draws the curtains’ in 14 Magazine; ‘Why some rifts heal’ in London Grip; ‘Gold Trader‘ in issue 2 of Eche Poetry; ‘Writing Sisyphus’ in Write Out Loud Anthology; ‘On Pismo Beach‘ and ‘Relationship‘ in Anthropocene Poetry; ‘I call my mother by her childhood nickname,’ in The Marrow International Poetry; ‘The Locket Speaks’ in Six Things by Poetry Plays;’Prayer to a lost son’ Poetry News and video ; ‘lucid dreaming’ forthcoming in Finished Creatures; ‘Christmas Streets’ 31 Dec in Ink Sweat & Tears

2024

‘Fish and Chips’ in Aesthetica; ‘Snow-globe’ in Live Canon Christmas Anthology; ‘Frankincense’ in Paper Swans Advent Calendar (Christmas Day); ‘Driving home for the new year’ Dark Poets Press (Dec); ‘searching for my grandfather’ (Magma 90); ‘South Rim, Grand Canyon‘ (The Interpreter’s House, issue 82); ‘it came out of nowhere’ (Perverse); ‘elder trees were once planted beside houses for protection’ (Holy Cows: an anthology of writing and art); ‘On top of the world‘ Green Ink; ‘Cake’ (London Grip); ‘Home is the sound of silence’ (Abridged); ‘Carer’s Afternoon Off’ (Hippocrates 2024 Anthology); ‘She is walking’ (Under the Radar); ‘There’s no place for grief in the house that serves the muse’ (Amethyst’s Thin Places & Sacred Spaces anthology); ‘My mother didn’t touch salt’ (Ver 2024 Anthology)

2023

‘mother bear’ (Ink, Sweat & Tears, Dec); ‘Tree’ (Spelt, Dec); ‘Carolling’ (London Grip, Dec); ‘the grandmothers’ (bath magg, Sept); ‘elegy to a pencil’ (Lighthouse 88); ‘Invisible Ink’, (Stand); ‘Off Lindisfarne’ (Finished Creatures); ‘Inner Octopus’, (Raceme); ‘Hymn to Sheep’ (The Rialto); ‘O Womb’ (Arachne Press); ‘All or Nothing Girl’ (Dempsey & Windle Anthology); ‘Heading to the Swamps’ (Candlestick Press ‘I Love You’); ‘The time I saw my father cry’ (Borders and Belonging, Cephalo Press)

2022

‘viburnum’ (Drawn to the light), ‘How to measure a fly life’ (Fenland Poetry Journal, autumn), ‘what the spiders showed me’ (Fenland Poetry Journal, autumn), ‘white’ (14 Magazine, autumn);’how to spell your name‘ Kent & Sussex anthology; ‘Peepholes’ (London Grip, summer); ‘It smells of warm  cabbage’ (Dust issue 8); ‘Diana and her Piano’ (Lighthouse, June); ‘Perdita’ (Allegro issue 28); ‘Airborne’ (Friday Poem, June 25); ‘Stilling Time’ (Marble 11), ‘Kiss’ (London Grip, March). ‘After carving leftover turkey’ (Corrupted Poets’s anthology: Living With Other People, Dec); ‘the beginnings and endings of fairytales’, ‘After my doctor said I’d never have children’ and ‘Tawi Attair, Oman’ (Fragmented Voices’ anthology: in-spire); ‘Ghost Gum’ (Ver Prize Anthology), ‘Mother of Cities’ (Binstead/ South Downs Prize Anthology)

2021

‘My red shoes lead me home’ (Ink Drinkers, autumn);  ‘Christmas Eve in Paris’ (MIR online Dec); ‘playing with snakes’ (Orbis 197, autumn); ‘stop!’, (Orbis 197); ‘Scent’ (Marble 10, Oct) 2021; ‘Misreading the blueprint’ (RSL  Write Across London Poetry Map); ‘Let me tell you about love’, (Snakeskin, May);’Kaieteur’ (London Grip, Apr); ‘The Art of Daydreaming’ (Poetry News, Mar);  ‘What would I see in a portrait of me’ (AMBIT 242);  ‘Silent Majority’ (Finished Creatures); ‘Diptych’, (Aesthetica CW anthology); ‘Lamb Sandwiches’ (Arc Poetry Journal), ‘Still Life’ (Winchester Prize anthology: un-seaming the tendon),  ‘A Short History of Frankincense’ and  ‘Who is She Who Comes’ (Amethyst Review); ‘Pointing North’ (the Poetry Health Service);

2020

‘D is for Change’ (Under the Radar); ‘Madness of Crowds’ (The Fenland Poetry Journal); ‘Muse’ and ‘Berlin Break’ (Cadena Magica) ; ‘The Tasmanian Spider is a Good Mother like You’, ‘Twenty Seven’ and ‘By Any Name’ (The High Window); ‘The Making of Dreams’ and ‘Restocking after the Break’ (Blue Nib Poetry Journal); ‘Bluebeard’s Cousin’ (Ink Sweat & Tears)

2019

‘The General’s Widow’ and ‘The Chemistry of Tears’ (Momaya ‘Masks’ Poetry Review);  ‘Moth-wings’ (Bridges Journal); Breton Girl Spinning’ (Sentinel Quarterly Poetry Journal, 2016).Dempsey and Windle’s What Next anthology, Coldweather Anthology,2018, 2019; Metaphor for Women, 2015; Bridges Anthology, 2018, 2019; Poetry from Tate Modern, 2010, 2011.

COMPETITION MENTIONS

2026

2 highly commended in Edward Thomas Competition;

2025

‘relationships’ nominated (by Anthropocene) for the Pushcart Prize

winner of Poetry Society Members competition with ‘Prayer for a lost son’

finalist for Poet in Residence for the Laurel Prize

3rd-equal place, Write Out Loud

Highly commended: Erbacce Prize, Ware, AgeUK, Primers 8

Shortlist: Live Canon Single Poem competition, Mslexia Single Poem Competition, FreeVerse, Fish, Templar Pamphlet Competition

Longlist: Fish; Cinnamon Pamphlet Competition, Dithering Chaps; Aurora; Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet, Live Canon Poem competition,

2024

finalist: Winchester, Mslexia

shortlisted: Bridport (flash fiction), Aesthetica Prize, Hammond House,

highly commended: Fool for Poetry Pamphlet Competition, Munster

Commended: Hippocrates, Welshpool, Ver, South Downs, Coast-to-Coast-to Coast

Honourable Mention: Dark Poets Prize

Longlist: Bedford Prize, Fish Prize, Bridport, Bad Betty

2023

2nd prize: Indigo Dreams

3rd prize: Teignmouth Prize; 3rd equal, Wolves Lit Fest competition

Highly commended: Bridport; Buzzwords;

Commended: Poets Rrattlers Pandemonialists; Ware Poets; Ver Poets; South Downs Poetry Prize; Coast to Coast to Coast pamphlet (special mention)

Shortlisted: Plough, Bedford, Fish

Longlisted: National Poetry Prize (2022); Rialto Nature & Place; Bedford, Fish

2022

1st prize IAmInPrint, Winchester,

4th Prize, Kent & Sussex

Highly commended: Rialto Nature & Place

Commended: Hippocrates Open, South Downs Poetry Prize

Shortlist: Bridport; Aesthetica Creative Writing Award; Verve Poetry Publishing Collection, 2022

Longlist: Paper Swans Pamphlet Prize; Mono Prize

2021

1st equal Poetry News Members’ ‘Lucid Dreaming’ competition

Longlist:

2nd Sentinely Lit Quarterly

3rd Sentinely Lit Quarterly

Shortlist: Live Canon Single Poem competition;

Longlist: Beford, AUB; Fish (2)

2020

Ist prize (equal) Poetry News Members’ ‘Vision’ competition

Commended: WInchester; Aesthetica Creative Writing Award; Artlyst;

Shortlist: Trim, Buzzwords; Plough;

Longlist: Segora; Acumen

2019 and before

1st prize, Momaya International Competition (2019)

Shortlist: Bridport (2013,14,15,16,18); Wasafiri (2011); Torbay (2018);

Longlist: Primers 1 (2016), Mslexia Memoir Prize 2014

Endorsements

“Mary Mulholland is an accomplished poet, consistently producing rich and varied work. Unafraid to experiment, her poems kindle a range of emotional responses, and we are always left stirred by something original.  Dedicated, engaged and inspiring, it has been a pleasure to work with Mary.” Rebecca Goss (2023)

Mary Mulholland is an exciting fresh voice on the poetry scene whose playfulness and wit is matched by a joyous intellect that is ever alert to personal and political issues, and who happens to be a superb reader of her work!” Daljit Nagra (2021)

“Mary Mulholland writes with a rich alchemy of words, turn of phrases, precise and clear with a sense of vulnerability under the surface on subjects of womanhood, family, nature, place and many more subjects.” Roy McFarlane (2022)