Selected publications – English
2023
The Pig’s Back. ‘Brother’. Short story. Issue 3. April 2023
The Cormorant. ‘Flüsterpost’. Flash fiction. Issue 8. April 2023
‘Timelines of vulnerability’. Commissioned essay for artist book Haptic by Mhairi Sutherland.
2021
Winter Papers 7. ‘Squirrel, conscience, thermometer’. Essay
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 boy’. Short story. Issue 15
The Corridor. ‘Landlocked’. Essay.
2018
Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology. ‘Fingers’
The Stinging Fly. ‘Crescent’. Short story. Issue 39
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
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
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
2018 Irish Novel Fair – Finalist
2006 Harder Literaturpreis, Austria. ‘Einfache Fahrt’. Short story in German
Public Readings & Festival appearances
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
2018 River Mill Writers’ Retreat
Shortlisted
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
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
Stories and flash fiction that can be read in full online
‘Crescent’. The Stinging Fly
‘Weapon of Choice’. The Stinging Fly
‘Taiga’. The Stinging Fly
‘Forecast’. Splonk
‘Isobel’s time’ & ‘Afterthought’. The Incubator Journal
‘Aubergine’ . TSS Publishing – Home of the Cambridge Short Story Prize
‘Bestiary’. Flash Fiction Magazine
‘Nice’. 100wordstory.org