William Keohane is a poet and non-fiction writer. His essays have been published in the Irish literary magazine The Stinging Fly, and men's magazine, British GQ. Biography Keohane graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from University of Limerick, he also holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and sociology from the same university. He was New Irish Writing's poetry winner in March 2022. In 2021, he was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award and received a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council (Ireland). He was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series. In 2023, he was announced as guest editor of Trumpet, an annual literary pamphlet. As of 2022, Keohane is the current writer-in-residence at Ormston House, Limerick. He has held residencies in Tin House, Portland, Oregon, Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry, and SÍM in Reykjavík, Iceland. Keohane was invited to speak at Museum of Literature Ireland for the Celebrating 100 years of James Joyce’s Ulysses event in 2022. He performed a reading of his poem Boxing Day, a sequence of 52 prose, in the Belltable Arts Centre, Waterford Institute of Technology and Crawford Art Gallery. Selected Publications ‘Three Strands’ in The Stinging Fly, issue #47: winter 2022. ‘The story of a man’s face’ in British GQ, July/August 2022. ‘Postcard’ and ‘Anniversary’ in the Irish Independent, March 2022. ‘Cratloe Wood Lake’ in Banshee, issue #12: autumn/winter 2021. ‘Top surgery’ in Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 134, Sept 2021. References and sources External links Official Website Living people People from Limerick 21st-century Irish poets 21st-century Irish writers Irish poets Irish non-fiction writers Alumni of the University of Limerick Year of birth missing (living people)