Jim Ward

Jim Ward has previously published poetry in English and Irish (in Cork Literary Review, Poetry Bus, Galway Advertiser, Feasta, Culture Matters’ The Children of the Nation Anthology and many others), short stories in Headstuff, Same Page Anthology, and many other publications.
His play 'Just Guff' won 'Best in the West' award at Galway Fringe Festival, 2017 and has toured nationally including Town Hall Studio, Galway, Kilkee Playwright Festival and Liberty Hall, Dublin as part of MayFest 2019. His poem '2016 Proclamation' was runner-up in the Galway Bay FM/Thoor Ballylee Poetry Challenge to 'Yeats' Indominatible Irishry' 2017. 
A second play Three Quarks was performed live via Zoom on February 2nd, 2021, Joyce’s birthday, by The James Joyce Centre in Dublin. 

His memoir piece 'Begging from Beggars' is in The 32: Anthology of Irish Working Class Voices, edited by Paul McVeigh, 2021. He is working on a story collection and is also a published cartoonist.