Lauren O'Donovan: 'The Day You Were Born'

Lauren O'Donovan reads 'The Day You Were Born'. Lauren was Highly Commended in the 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Lauren O’Donovan is a writer from Cork, Ireland. In 2023, she won the Cúirt New Writing Prize in Poetry and was also shortlisted for Listowel Writers’ Week Collection Award and the Fish Poetry Prize. In 2022, Lauren was awarded Arts Council funding to work towards her first collection along with a Munster Literature Centre Mentorship. She has published work in journals and anthologies such as: Rattle Magazine, Southword, Skylight 47, The Galway Review, The Galway Advertiser, The Honest Ulsterman, A New Ulster, Cork Words, Augur Magazine, Green Ink, Grand Little Things, The Quarryman, and Swerve. Poetry Bites is a podcast by ⁠⁠⁠The Poetry Business⁠⁠⁠, a publisher and writer development agency dedicated to discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poetry.