Siobhán Brosnan is a student of the Kerry College digital journalism, podcasting and radio course in association with Radio Kerry. She has made this feature about the prison writing competition organised by Listowel Writers’ Week which was started by the late Brendan Kennelly in 1979. She speaks to arts officer with the Prison Service, Tom Shortt, with Martin Dyar who was the curator of the 2024 Writers’ Week Festival, and to former prisoner Pat Sheehy whose life was transformed by the competition.