NUALA O'CONNOR

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  • BIRDIE – where to buy

    I was awarded a COVID-19 Crisis Response Award for Literature, from the Arts Council of Ireland, to write and compile birdie, a collection of 16 historical and out-of-time flash and micro fictions. You can buy a digital copy of birdie here at Draft2Digital or a kindle edition here. It costs €5.99 / US$5.99 / £4.99.…

  • New flash at Cease, Cows

    I have a new flash fiction, ‘Blue’, at Cease, Cows magazine today. You can read it here.

  • WIGLEAF TOP 50, 2020

    I’m delighted that my micro ‘RedDog’ has made the annual Wigleaf Top 50 – a selection of the net’s top flash fiction for the year. A nice little surprise! ‘RedDog’ was first published by Necessary Fiction here. Big thanks to the team at Wigleaf and to Necessary Fiction too.

  • LITTLE FREE LIBRARY

    My husband Finbar and I have set up a Little Free Library in the garden opposite our house in Ballinasloe (just in front of my writing cabin), so that during these lockdown days, friends and neighbours can have new books to read. If you visit, please observe correct social distancing and use the hand sanitiser…

  • Perimenopause essay

    Nuala has a new essay about perimenopause (and hope!) in the new non-fiction journal from Bay Path University, Multiplicity Magazine. In ‘The Hope Cure – Negotiations with the Peri-fog’, she touches on everything from ee cummings to ‘The Shawshank Redemption’. You can read the essay here.

  • YouTube micro reading

    Nuala reads her micro fiction ‘Rehearsal’ – first published in Lost Balloon magazine – as part of Hannah Storm’s #flashfamily event. See it here.

  • CREATIVITY INTERVIEW

    Writer Mundy Walsh interviews Nuala about creativity, craft, earning money as a writer and enrichment, amongst other things. Read the interview here.

  • NEW ESSAY on INSOMNIA

    Nuala has a new short essay about insomnia at Forge Literary Magazine today. Read it here. And the accompanying interview here.

  • Upcoming Events

    Nuala has been head-to-the-desk, busy editing her forthcoming novel about Nora Barnacle for her new editor in New York – more on that to come soon! In the meantime, you might catch her at one of these upcoming events: Strangers in a Strange Land event at Bray Literary Festival, with Mary Costello and Oisín Fagan,…

  • PARIS READING – BECOMING BELLE

    Nuala’s event with Michele Forbes, and moderated by Clíona Ní Riordáin, was a great success in Paris last night. A large, enthused crowd and a great Q&A. Thanks to Marion Mossud, librarian at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, for hosting the reading.