Publications in literary journals

• ‘A stain the shape of Italy’, The Blue Nib, Issue 37, 2019
  (https://thebluenib.com/article/denise-ohagan-new-poetry/)
• ‘Separateness’, The Blue Nib, Issue 37, 2019
  (https://thebluenib.com/article/denise-ohagan-new-poetry/)
• For my cousin in Faenza’, The Blue Nib, Issue 37, 2019
  (https://thebluenib.com/article/denise-ohagan-new-poetry/)
• The passing of things’, The Blue Nib, Issue 37, 2019
  (https://thebluenib.com/article/denise-ohagan-new-poetry/)
• The flick of a lizard’s tail’, The Blue Nib, Issue 37, 2019
  (https://thebluenib.com/article/denise-ohagan-new-poetry/)
• ‘Now he is here’, Other Terrain Journal, 2018 (http://www.otherterrainjournal.com.au/issues/issue-five/now-he-is-here/)
• ‘And the nuns wore lipstick’, New Reader Magazine, 2018 (https://www.newreadermagazine.com/)
• ‘Honolulu Breakfasts’, New Reader Magazine, 2018 (https://www.newreadermagazine.com/)
• ‘I’m Lucky’, New Reader Magazine, 2018
  (https://www.newreadermagazine.com/)
• ‘Pine nuts at lunchtime’, Literary Yard, 2018
  (https://literaryyard.com/2018/08/22/pine-nuts-at-lunchtime-and-other-poems-by-denise-ohagan/); republished in Poet’s Corner, InDaily, 2018 (https://indaily.com.au/arts-and-culture/books-and-poetry/2018/10/24/poem-pine-nuts-at-lunchtime/)
• ‘What was’, Literary Yard, 2018
  (https://literaryyard.com/2018/08/22/pine-nuts-at-lunchtime-and-other-poems-by-denise-ohagan/); republished in Scarlet Leaf Review, Anniversary Edition, 2018 (https://www.scarletleafreview.com/anniversary-issue/category/denise-ohagan); republished in The Sunlight Press, 2019 (https://www.thesunlightpress.com/2019/04/01/what-was-before-the-party/)
• ‘Before the party’ Literary Yard, 2018
  (https://literaryyard.com/2018/08/22/pine-nuts-at-lunchtime-and-other-poems-by-denise-ohagan/); republished in The Sunlight Press, 2019 (https://www.thesunlightpress.com/2019/04/01/what-was-before-the-party/)
• ‘Boston uncommon’, Literary Yard, 2018
  (https://literaryyard.com/2018/08/22/pine-nuts-at-lunchtime-and-other-poems-by-denise-ohagan/); republished in Scarlet Leaf Review, Anniversary Edition, 2018 (https://www.scarletleafreview.com/anniversary-issue/category/denise-ohagan)
• ‘Fifty-five days’, Backstory Journal, 2018
  (http://www.backstoryjournal.com.au/2018/12/15/fifty-five-days/?fbclid=IwAR2EgZu88bnF_8TJAnrL6A5MXRcCgalgbDq9_zVGhYSLTGD7qLGHknDuiOc) republished in Scarlet Leaf Review, Anniversary Edition, 2018 (https://www.scarletleafreview.com/anniversary-issue/category/denise-ohagan)
• ‘Recalling Sarah’, chapbook anthology Empathy (Australian Catholic University, Melboune, 2018); republished in Pink Cover Zine (Issue 3), 2018 (https://pinkcoverzine.wordpress.com/)
• ‘A glut of words’, Scarlet Leaf Review, Anniversary Edition, 2018 (https://www.scarletleafreview.com/anniversary-issue/category/denise-ohagan); republished in Down in the Dirt: Fallen Kingdom (Vol. 162), January–February 2019 http://scars.tv/dirt-new-issue.htm
• ‘Someone else’s morning’, Scarlet Leaf Review, Anniversary Edition, 2018 (https://www.scarletleafreview.com/anniversary-issue/category/denise-ohagan); republished in Down in the Dirt: Fallen Kingdom (Vol. 162), January–February 2019 http://scars.tv/dirt-new-issue.htm

Literary competitions

• ‘What was’ shortlisted in the Robert Graves Poetry Prize 2018 (https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/research-centres/the-roehampton-poetry-centre/robert-graves-prize/).
• ‘Recalling Sarah’ highly commended in Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize 2018; special mention in Pangolin Poetry Prize 2018 (https://thepangolinreview.wixsite.com/mypoetrysite/1st-edition-results)