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