NUALA O'CONNOR

Author: Nuala Ní Chonchúir

  • FRAZZLED LIT SHORT STORY COMP

    This comp opens 1st June and I’m the judge. More here.

  • GALWAY LAUNCH – MENAGERIE

    Book launch for Menagerie, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in Galway City. Joint launch for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from Arlen House Celebrating Arlen House at 50

  • HI FROM A HUMAN CAMPAIGN

    Check out this wonderful pro-creativity and anti-AI initiative from designer Una Healy. As a writer, it is terrifying to imagine that anyone thinks it’s a good idea to let AI write creative texts, it’s a total eclipsing of everything that is fresh, heartful, authentic, and innately human in creativity. See more, and join in, here.

  • STROKESTOWN POETRY FESTIVAL 2025

  • Menagerie review

    I’m grateful to Canadian writer Rob McLennan, who has reviewed Menagerie at his blog. A taster:’…a curious assemblage of prose poem narratives and short scenes that hold a thickness of detail and a lush sense of the lyric…These poems are quite magical, honestly.’ You can read the rest here.

  • TELEPHONE EXCHANGE @CÚIRT

    Join us at the Cúirt Intl Literary Festival for specially commissioned stories, in a project run by Orla Higgins, called The Telephone Exchange. 09 April to 13 April 12:00pm–7:00pm Hall of the Red Earl, off Quay Street. Free, Ticketed. Immerse yourself in this digital literary installation produced exclusively for Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Take…

  • MICRO MADNESS JUDGING

    I am judging Micro Madness this year with Renee Liang, for Flash Frontier. Free and international competition for stories up to 100 words, opens April 15. We’re interviewed here today about the whole shebang. Image: Claudia Wollesen

  • EVENTS – 2025

    21st March: Nora Barnacle Birthday event at Galway Grá Festival in Galway’s Latin Quarter. 4pm, Town Hall Theatre bar. Details here. 27th March: Launch of essay anthology Wired Our Own Way (New Island Books), 6pm, Hodges Figgis, Dublin. 28th March: Launch of short story anthology Take Six: Six Irish Women Writers (Dedalus Books), 6pm, Charlie…

  • GRÁ FESTIVAL

    Join us on International Nora Barnacle Day – the 21st March – at 4pm, Town Hall Theatre, Galway, where I will read from and discuss my Novel NORA. Grá Festival takes place across four days, with a huge variety of walks, talks, music, and art – see here for all events.

  • Irish Times Review – Menagerie

    Happy International Women’s Day! I’m very happy today to get this review of Menagerie in the Irish Times. Thanks, Carl Phillips. A snippet: ‘…a warm feelingful generosity of vision and a distant, diagnostic eye…a collection which is at once involving and clear-sighted.’ Pre-order the book here.