Kerrie O' Brien has been published in various Irish and UK literary journals. In February 2012 she was the first poet to read as part of the New Writers Series in Shakespeare & Co. Paris. Her poem Blossoms was chosen as the winning entry in the Emerging Talent category of the 2011 iYeats Poetry Competition and her work was highly commended for the Over the Edge New Writer of The Year Competition 2011 She was the winner of the RTE Arena Flash Fiction Competition 2012 and Culture Ireland sponsored her to read in Los Angeles in June. She received an Arts Council Literature Bursary for her first official collection and  two of her poems have appeared in New Irish Writing in the Independent. She was one of the emerging writers chosen to read at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival 2013 as well as the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series 2013 and  she will be reading at Listowel Writers' Week. 

 Her poetry chapbook Out of the Blueness is now available for purchase here. Read an article she wrote for writing.ie about the Paris Literary Scene. For advice on poetry and self-promotion, check out the guest blog piece she wrote for the Foyles website here.


Online Publications
Outburst
Burning Bush 
5 Poetry Journal
Wordlegs Anthology
Southword Issue 19
Southword Issue 21
The Cathach
Daydreamer
College Green
Wordlegs
Minus 9 Squared
The First Cut Issues 2, 3, 4 & 6
Raft Magazine
Neon Literary Magazine


Print Publications
Cyphers 
The Stinging Fly
New Irish Writing
WIndows 20
Neon
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New Binary Press
Crannóg Issues 24 & 27
Orbis Issue 154
Revival Issue 15
The Poetry Bus Issue 2
Boyne Berries Issue 6
Ropes 2010
Icarus Volume 59 Issue 2