Category: General
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Colm Tóibín Short Story Competition
Very excited to have made the Long List for this competition and to be among writers I admire like June Caldwell. http://www.focalliteraryfestival.com/news/colm-toibin-international-short-story-award-long-list/
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What happened to the Brontë Poetry collection?
The Fate of the Brontë sisters’ poetry collection and the emergence of the Brontë novels. Equipped with the poems of Emily, Anne and her own and having decided on the pseudonyms Acton, Ellis and Currer Bell, Charlotte set about getting them published. The initial correspondence with publishers sees Charlotte acting as agent for the Bells…
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Observatory – Honest Ulsterman
Source: Observatory – Honest Ulsterman
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June Fest, Newbridge, Literary event ‘Creative Fusions’
If you are from Newbridge or County Kildare, you will probably have heard of the annual cultural festival, June Fest. Part of that festival is a literary event where local writers come together to share their work.I have the honour, yet again, of organising the night this year. It will take place on June 9th…
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Flash fiction competition.
Competition: Win a place at the Short Story Retreat
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Halloween
I get obsessed with things a lot. Like Netflix. Right now, it’s American Horror Story, previously it’s been House of Cards(which I watched to the bitter end) Suits (naw, eventually got tired of Harvey and Mike behaving as if they were Bruce and Cybil in Moonlighting) and The Returned(lasted two episodes and …pun alert…haven’t gone…
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2015 – RTE Guide / Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition Winner
My story “Beautiful things in his head” won the 2015 RTE Guide / Penguin Ireland short story competition. The story was published in the RTE Guide of August 17th 2015. I was previously shortlisted in 2014 and long listed in 2013. Here’s the story if you’d like to have a read. Beautiful things in his…
Pauline Clooney - Author and Teacher 