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There’s A Blessing In A Walk – Michelle Dennehy
There’s A Blessing In A Walk
Written & Performed by Michelle Dennehy
Winner of the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2024
Michelle Dennehy is the 2024 winner of the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing. In 2025 she was named runner-up in the SWLF Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted in the Fish Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in a variety of Irish and UK journals, including Skylight 47, The Stony Thursday Book, The Cormorant, The Honest Ulsterman, Abridged, and Amphibian.
Michelle lives in the beautiful Sperrin mountains in county Tyrone.