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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…
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IRISH TIMES STORY
I have a seasonal short story in the Irish Times Magazine today, set by the sea in Donegal. You can read it here.
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STINGING FLY – SHORT STORY
I am very happy to have a new story in the Stinging Fly. My story ‘Elsinore‘ is a modern re-telling of/homage to Elizabeth Bowen’s story ‘The Parrot’, which I love.
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NEW STORY FOR RADIO
My story ‘Sorrow and Honey’ features on SPOKEN STORIES, RTÉ Radio 1, first broadcast on Sunday 27th Oct, at 7.30pm. You can listen to the story here. Narrator: Clare Dunne Producer: Clíodhna Ní Anluain I had a gorgeous research trip for the story to the Dingle Peninsula, to St Gobnait’s Well, Ventry etc. It’s a…
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JUDGING ALLINGHAM FLASH
A little reminder that I am judging the Allingham Flash Comp this year, and winners will be published in a special issue of the e-journal I edit, Splonk. See their Press Release below. 2024 Allingham Flash Fiction Competition Entries in the 2024 Allingham Flash Fiction Competition will be judged by Nuala O’Connor, acclaimed author of…
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Winner – Irish Short Story of the Year
I was genuinely delighted to win Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards for my story This Small Giddy Life about two daughters and their wandering, wonderful mother who gets dementia. My own mother is living with this curious condition, so it is a close-to-my-heart story. You can read the story in…
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Shortlisting – Short Story of the Year
Shortlisted! My dementia story *This Small Giddy Life* from the New Island Books anthology A Little Unsteadily Into Light is up for the writing.ie Story of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2022. We had a lovely shortlisters’ event at the GPO last night. This story is meaningful to me as I took elements of…
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SHORT STORY OF THE YR – LONGLIST
One of my short stories – can’t say which for now – has been longlisted in the An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year category, run by writing.ie, which is lovely. Shortlist will be announced 20th October. So crossing fingers! Here are the longlisted writers: Roisín O’DonnellEamon McGuinnessWendy ErskineNuala O’ConnorTim MacGabhannSheila ArmstrongDanielle…
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RODDY DOYLE @ POLITICS & PROSE
Roddy Doyle and I had a great chat about short fiction and his new collection at Politics and Prose. Watch it back on YouTube now: https://youtu.be/p2m6VmEpj5I
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Roddy Doyle interview
I’m interviewing Roddy Doyle, online at Politics and Prose in Washington, about short fiction. This event celebrates the USA publication day for Roddy’s book Life Without Children, which is a warm, funny, poignant collection of ten stories. Join us! 5pm USA, 10pm Ireland. More here.