About
Angela T. Carr is poet, architect, designer and teacher. Originally from Glasgow, with roots in Donegal, she has lived and worked in Dublin since 1999.
Winner of the 2019 iYeats International Poetry Competition and The Poetry Business 2018 Laureate’s Prize (selected by Dame Professor Carol Ann Duffy), Angela’s work has been placed or shortlisted in over 40 national and international literary competitions since 2008, including The Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition, The London Magazine Poetry Prize, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, Allingham Poetry Prize and Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition.
Her poetry is published or forthcoming in literary journals in Ireland, the UK and internationally including The North, The Lonely Crowd, The London Magazine, New Writing Scotland, Mslexia, Bare Fiction, Irish Examiner, Banshee, Abridged and more — read examples of Angela's poetry and short fiction.
Poems are anthologised in ‘Ouija’ (Lighthouse Press, 2020), ‘Be Not Afraid: An Anthology in Appreciation of Seamus Heaney’ (Lapwing Press, 2018), Autonomy (New Binary Press, 2018), Refugees Welcome: Poems in a Time of Crisis (Eyewear, 2016) and ‘Looking at the Stars’ (2016).
Angela has read at literary events and venues around the country, including the Irish Writers' Centre, Poetry Ireland, Over The Edge, Ó Bhéal, Culture Night, West Cork Literary Festival, Dublin Writers' Festival, Cork Spring Poetry Festival, Dromineer Literary Festival, Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Dublin Book Festival and Listowel Writers’ Week.
Her poetry has been broadcast on RTE Radio One's Arena arts programme and was displayed on the streets of Dublin as part of the Upstart General Election Poster Project in 2011. It is included in Poethead: An Index of Contemporary Irish Women Poets.
beginnings
As a child, Angela was a passionate reader and thought it likely she would become a writer someday; in her 30’s she realised for this to happen she would also have to start!
Angela graduated with Honours from the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow, practised architecture in Ireland and the UK to the level of Associate Director, taught at University College Dublin, and wrote about design for interiors magazines.
In 2007, she took her first creative writing classes at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin — later, focusing on poetry under the tutelage of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill — and works primarily in poetry and short fiction.
Her debut collection ‘How to Lose Your Home and Save your Life’ (Bradshaw Books, 2014) won the Cork Literary Review Poetry Manuscript Competition in 2013 and she was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series the following year.
Angela has worked as an Arts Administrator at the Irish Writers Centre, provided design, social media management and marketing support for Double Shot Poetry Readings, and was Poetry Editor at Headstuff from 2015-2017.
current work
Angela has over nine years’ experience as a creative writing facilitator. She creates and delivers prompt-based writing challenges online, as well as poetry and creative writing workshops for private writing groups, literary organisations and festivals incl. Poetry Ireland, Bray Literary Festival, Mountshannon Arts Festival and Red Line Book Festival.
Since 2013, she has curated a monthly list of poetry competitions, submissions and writing opportunities in Ireland, the UK and internationally that is followed by writers in over 150 countries around the world.
Angela was one of eleven writers selected to take part in the inaugural Words Ireland National Mentoring Programme 2017/18, where she worked with mentor Enda Wyley over a period of six months.
In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Arts Council ‘Next Generation Artist Award’ and is currently working on her second collection, ‘The Auguries’, forthcoming from Dedalus Press (2022/3).
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