Siobhan Campbell, born in Dublin in 1962, is an Irish poet and critic. She is the author of six poetry collections. Campbell has developed creative writing workshops for military veterans as well as story-gathering protocols for work with refugees. Her recent[when?] research into creative writing as social practice has led her to work with patients in palliative care. Educated atUniversity College Dublin and at Lancaster University, Campbell also pursued post-graduate study atNYU and theNew School,New York City. Campbell is on faculty atThe Open University, Dept. of English.
Winner, 'Poem of the Year' at the Irish Book Awards for the poem, '"Longboat at Portaferry"[1]
Winner, O' Bheal poetry competition 2017
Winner of the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Award 2016
Commissioned poem in honour of Gwendolyn Brooks in The Golden Shovel Anthology: In Honour of Gwendolyn Brooks (University of Arkansas Press, 2016)
Commissioned poem in response to Ovid's Metamorphosis on his 2000th anniversary in Metamorphic: 21st Century Poets respond to Ovid (Recent Work Press, 2016)
Forward Book of Poetry selection by Forward Prize Judges 2011
Wigtown International Poetry Competition (judge: Robert Crawford) 2010
Troubadour International Poetry Contest (judges: David Constantine and Helen Dunmore) 2008 (reading at the prize-giving, Troubadour poetry venue, London)
Gregory O’Donoghue memorial competition 2010
Mslexia open poetry competition (judge: Carol Ann Duffy) 2009 ‘The Ripening of an R.U.C. man’
Templar Poetry Competition Winner 2009
Southword International Poetry Competition for ‘Clew Bay from the Reek’
National Poetry Competition 2005
Manuscripts related to That Water Speaks in Tongues have been acquired by the British Library to be archived for their Modern British Collections.
