Jennifer Horgan was awarded a mentorship with Thomas McCarthy in 2023 through the Munster Literature Centre. She was shortlisted in the Yeats Thoor Ballylee Poetry Prize in 2023. In November 2024 she read as part of O’Bhéal’s International Winter Warmer poetry festival. A secondary English teacher by profession, Jennifer wrote for some years as The Irish Examiner’s Secret Teacher. In 2021, she released her non-fiction book O Captain My Captain: One Teacher’s Hope for Change in the Irish Education System, with Orpen Press. She has written on education for the Irish Times and the Guardian also. A regular contributor to local and national radio, she also writes local features for the Echo and a weekly column for the Irish Examiner. Her debut poetry collection Care is published by Doire Press in April 2025.
Jennifer Horgan’s attendance at West Cork Literary Festival is supported by Doire Press
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