Award-winning writer of poetry, short fiction and prose, originally from Worcestershire in England, for more than two decades living in rural Ireland.
- Author of poetry books: Beyond the Green Bridge (2018); Soft Touch (selected for publication by UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, 2019); Under the Influence (2022) and Happy Out (with photographer Val Robus, 2024)
- Winner of 2018 Hennessy Literature Award for Emerging Poetry (a second Hennessy nomination), with a Dublin pub (temporarily) re-named in her honour
- Editor of Autumn Leaves, a literary broadsheet published annually by Roscommon County Arts Office (2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026)
- Guest poet at Strokestown International Poetry Festival May 2026
- Commissioned to write a poem now on permanent display in Chapel Lane, Roscommon (2024)
- Widely published in journals, newspapers and anthologies in Ireland and the UK
- Winner of: SiarSceal Festival Poetry Competition (2023); Strokestown Poetry Festival’s Roscommon Poets’ Prize (2017 and 2020); Wood for the Trees Nature Writing Competition (2020); New Roscommon Writing Award (2019); SiarSceal Festival Prose Competition (2019); I Am Dublin Flash Fiction Competition (2016); HE Bates Short Story Competition (2016); Hanna Greally Literary Award (2016)
- Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary recipient in 2021
- Commended in Munster Literature Centre’s Fool for Poetry pamphlet competition for three consecutive years (2020, 2021 and 2022, and again in 2024)
- Poetry broadcast on two of Lyric FM’s Poetry File national radio slots in February 2022
- Creative writing tutor and workshop facilitator (contact via louisegcolewriter(at)gmail(dot)com)
- Buy ‘Soft Touch’, poetry described by Dermot Bolger as ‘Sharp-edged and sharp-witted; richly humane and darkly humorous’ from the publishers here or from Boyle Craft Shop (Boyle, County Roscommon), in person or by mail here. Also from Boyle Craft Shop, ‘Under the Influence‘, poetry from Louise G Cole available here
Louise insists on the ‘G’ in her name to avoid unnecessary confusion with all of the other Louise Coles out there, one of whom is an underwear model. . . The pub name is real – there’s a 40 second story about it here
