Writing

Selected publications – English

2025

Winter Papers 11. ‘Mid-Life Music Lessons.’ Essay – edited by Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith

2024

RTÉ Short Story Prize Shortlist. ‘Dessie and Hopper’. Judges: Claire Kilroy, Neil Hegarty & Kathleen MacMahon

Banshee. ‘Chaconne’. Short story. Issue 17. Spring/Summer 2024 – edited by John Patrick McHugh

2023

New Irish Writing. ‘Tibetans’. Short Story. The Independent. June 2023 – edited by Ciaran Carty

The Pig’s Back. ‘Brother’. Short story. Issue 3. April 2023 – edited by Dean Fee and Emily Cooper

The Cormorant. ‘Flüsterpost’. Flash fiction. Issue 8. April 2023 – edited by Alan McMonagle

‘Timelines of vulnerability’. Commissioned essay for artist book Haptic by Mhairi Sutherland

2021

Winter Papers 7. ‘Squirrel, conscience, thermometer’. Essay – edited by Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith

2020

Splonk.‘Forecast’. Microfiction. Issue 4 (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize & Best Microfiction)

Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology, Volume 13. SHORTLISTED. ‘Unmappable’ (Shortlisted)

2019

Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology. ‘Push. Gojo. Robus. Pure’

Spontaneity. ‘Good b oy’. Short story. Issue 15

The Corridor. ‘Landlocked’. Essay.

2018

Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology. ‘Fingers’

The Stinging Fly. ‘Crescent’. Short story. Issue 39 – edited by Sally Rooney

TSS Publishing – Home of the Cambridge Short Story Prize. ‘Aubergine’

2017

Flash Fiction Magazine. ‘Bestiary’

The Stinging Fly. ‘Weapon of Choice’. Short story. Issue 36 – edited by Declan Meade

The Incubator. ‘Afterthought’. Short story. Issue 12

2016

Boyne Berries. ‘Florist’. Flash Fiction. Issue 20

The Incubator. ‘Isobel’s time’. Short story. Issue 8

Ambit. ‘Portland’. Short story. Issue 223

2015

100 Word Story. ‘Nice’. Flash fiction

Blue Lake Review. ‘Thelma’. Flash fiction

2014

The Impressment Gang. ‘The end of snow’. Flash fiction. Issue 1

2013

The Stinging Fly. ‘Taiga’. Short story. Issue 26 – edited by Declan Meade

2002

West 47. ‘With a broomstick’. Poetry. Galway Arts Centre. Issue 9

2001

West 47. ‘Some Salt’. Poetry. Galway Arts Centre. Issue 2

1999

Force 10. ‘Into the Paint’. Poetry. Model Arts Centre, Sligo. Issue 11

1999

Cuírt Journal. ‘Snow on the Rig’. Poetry. Issue 7

1998

Cuírt Journal. ‘Plumage’ and ‘Being Little’. Poetry. Issue 6

Bursary Awards

2022 John Hewitt International Summer School, Armagh. Bursary Award

2021 Donegal County Council. Artist Bursary Award

2018 Irish Arts Council. Emerging Writer Bursary Award

Literary Awards

2025. International Debut Novel Competition. Irish Writers Centre. Winner

2025 Write By The Sea Short Story Competition. ‘Republic of Pigeons’. Third Prize

2018 Irish Novel Fair – Finalist

2006 Harder Literaturpreis, Austria. ‘Einfache Fahrt’. Short story in German

Shortlisted

2024 RTÉ Short Story Prize. ‘Dessie and Hopper’. Short Story

2020 Bristol Short Story Prize. ‘Unmappable’. Short Story

2016 Doolin Writers’ Weekend, Short Story Competition. ‘Afterthought’. Short story

2014 Doolin Writers’ Weekend, Short Story Competition. ‘Thailand’. Short story

2013 Walter Kempowski Literaturpreis. ‘Isabel’s Zeit’. Short story in German

2008 Armin T. Wegner Gesellschaft & Amnesty International Human Rights Short Story Award. ‘Was sie sich wirklich wünschen’. Short story in German

Longlisted

2019 Bath Flash Fiction Award. ‘Push. Gojo. Robus. Pure’. Flash fiction

2018 Bath Flash Fiction Award. ‘Fingers’. Flash fiction

2014 Fish Flash Fiction Prize. ‘Bestiary’. Flash fiction

Public Readings & Festival appearances

2025. Winter Papers 11 Launch at Dublin Book Festival. In conversation with co-editor Kevin Barry, photographer Natalia Campos and playwright Darren Murphy

2025 The Curious Rabbit, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. Public reading

2021 Winter Papers Showcase at West Cork Literary Festival. In conversation with

Kevin Barry, Alan McMonagle and Jess Raymon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyPJaNqj1D8&t=1s

2020 ‘Heimat? German Writers in Ireland’, Residency of the German Ambassador, Dublin

https://thecorridor.ie/2020/01/12/the-corridor-no-7-heimat-german-writers-in-ireland/

2019 X Borders Accord Showcase, Irish Writers Centre, Dublin

2018 The Stinging Fly, Launch of Issue 39 (edited by Sally Rooney), Irish Writers Centre

Participant

2021/22 Words Ireland National Mentoring Programme, funded by Words Ireland and the Irish Arts Council. Mentored by Lucy Caldwell

2018 Irish Writers Centre X Borders: Accord programme for emerging writers

Residency

2025 Booranga Writers Centre. Wagga Wagga. New South Wales, Australia

2018 River Mill Writers’ Retreat

Selected publications – German

2008 LIMA. Literaturmagazin BVJA. ‘Und wo bist du daheim?’. Short story

2008 Wer die Wahrheit spricht. Edition Roesner, Armin T. Wegner Gesellschaft & Amnesty International. ‘Was sie sich wirklich wünschen’. Short-listed short story

2006 Auf dem Schiff. Die besten Kurzgeschichten des 8. Harder Literaturwettbewerbs. Hard: Hecht Verlag, 2006. ‘Einfache Fahrt’. Prize-winning short story

2005 Macondo. ‘Dreizehn Jahre alt’. Short story. Issue 13

2003 LIMA. Literaturmagazin BVJA. ‘Gesicht’ and ‘Revolver’. Flash fiction

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Stories and flash fiction that can be read in full online

‘Chaconne’, Banshee

‘Dessie and Hopper’, Shortlisted for RTE Short Story Prize

‘Tibetans’. New Irish Writing/ The Independent

‘Crescent’. The Stinging Fly

‘Weapon of Choice’. The Stinging Fly

‘Taiga’. The Stinging Fly

‘Forecast’. Splonk

‘Isobel’s time’ & ‘Afterthought’. The Incubator Journal