2019

Tramp Press bag ‘stunning’ Bourke debut.

‘Line’ shortlisted for Fitzcarraldo Novel Prize.

‘The Hands Of The Andes’ published in ‘Still World Turning’ by No Alibis Press. 

‘The Envelope’ shortlisted for New Irish Writing Award.

2018

‘Did You Put The Weasels Out?’ longlisted as a Poetry School 2018 book of the year.

‘Did You Put The Weasels out?’ mentioned by the excellent Jackie Gorman as a book of the year in ‘The Lonely Crowd’.

My poem ‘The Fun House’ was longlisted for The Troubadour International Poetry Prize.

My poem ‘Eight Algorithms For The Self-driving Self’ won third place in The University of Hertfordshire Poetry Competition.

A great review from Giles Turbull published on Inkpantry.com

Reading at the Duiske Inn as part of the Graiguenamanagh Town of Books festival

Nominated for Best of the Net poetry by Dodingtherain.com

A very in-depth review by Chris Edgoose here.

A lovely review of Weasels from Nick Garrad over at Storgy.

Story The Whale runner up in the Mairtín Crawford Short Story prize.

Reading at The Poetry Cafe as part of the Irish Shuffle Event.

‘Niall Bourke fails to disappoint’ – Weasels reviewed in The Irish Times.

In-depth interview about Weasels with Sam Murphy from Headstuff.

A great article on the road to Weaseldom posted on writing.ie

A lovely write up in The Kilkenny People – KK People

Did You Put The Weasels Out? launched in the London Review Of Books Bookshop.

Story The Whale longlisted for The Cambridge International Short Story Prize.

 

2017

The Hands Of The Andes highly commended in The Over The Edge New Writer Of The Year Award.

Reading with the excellent Chrissy Williams and Robert Cole at the Brockley Max poetry event in the Brockley Brewery. 

Reading at Poetry Ireland as part of the Dublin Festival of literature.

Selected for the 2017 poetry introductions series run by Poetry Ireland.

 

2016

Shortlisted for the Melita Hume Debut Poetry Collection Prize

Shortlisted for the Over The Edge New Writer Of The Year Award for poetry

Selected for the Eyewear Best New British and Irish Poetry Anthology 2017

Longlisted for the Over The Edge New Writer Of The Year Award for prose

Two poems (Catatonia and Peadorists and Terrorphiles) published in Magma poetry issue 65 – Revolutions

Poem Lord Knows I Can Be Cruel published on Ink, Sweat and Tears

Shortlisted for the 2015 Barefiction Poetry Prize.

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Short Story Award. My story, Gerardo Dreams of Chillies, can be read here

Nice write up in The Guardian and the Goldsmiths Alumni newsletter

 

2015

Shortlisted for the 2015 Over the Edge New Writer Of The Year Award.

Poem ‘Death and Taxes’ longlisted for the Southbank Poetry London Poetry Award and published in Southbank Poetry Competition Edition.