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’Donnell
Eamon McGuinness
Wendy Erskine
Nuala O’Connor
Tim MacGabhann
Sheila Armstrong
Danielle McLaughlin
David Butler
Neil Tully
Colin Barrett
Twist Phelan
Rebecca Miller
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.
My story ‘Tin’ about a Fermanagh love triangle, in early WW1, is in the new edition of literary journal The Lonely Crowd, and it’s also online. You can read it here.
I also wrote a short piece about the writing of the story and it’s here.
I was on Arena on RTÉ Radio 1 tonight, with writer Thomas Morris, discussing the short story, as part of their Short Fiction special.
You can listen back here – we were at the top of the programme.