Category: short stories
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#CultureNight2023 Reading of Without the Light Pollution, you can see the stars.
For #CultureNight2023, I’ve recorded one of the stories from my newly launched short story collection Random Acts of Optimism. The story is called Without the Light Pollution, we can see the Stars https://youtu.be/j3ieMx9HZj8 #shortstories The book is available from the publisher Wordsonthestreet, Amazon etc.
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Literary Orphans, Stinging Fly and Glass Woman prize finalist
Literary Orphans I’ve just put up a new post on Writing.ie about the beautiful Irish themed issue of The Chicago Based mag Literary Orphans Including fiction, essays and artwork from a wealth of Irish contributors it’s beautifully put together and was launched at Easter. In conjunction with Editor in Chief Mike Joyce, this Irish issue…
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Short story hub and Strictly Critical
My youngest is six today and I became the mother of a teenager on Tuesday. I have a party to organise now so I’ll just leave you with a few links. In a recent post on writing.ie I talk about criticism and why tough judges like Craig Revel Horward on Strictly Come Dancing aren’t necessarily…
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Flash Bulbs and Free Books for National Flash Fiction Day
At Arthur’s Pub Thomas Street. Photo by Big Smoke Writing Flash Bulbs I had a wonderful time last evening listening to the readings at Flash Bulbs, Dublin’s flash fiction event, organised by purveyor of writing courses and drop in writing meets the fabulous Big Smoke Writing Factory. I also read my story Holographic Dog there…
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Creative Prompts and Short Story Sub Opps
Creative Sparks We spent a lot of lovely time on here in January exploring creativity through prompts. My philosophy holds that inspiration is everywhere and that if you provide yourself with structure and impetus you can forge that inspiration into a finished product. While we’ll continue to explore creativity here, I wanted to draw your…
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Crannóg 32 – a new story in this great independent publisher’s new anthology
Crannóg is a well regarded and renowned literary magazine in Ireland that recently celebrated its 10th year. Established by writers Tony O’ Dwyer and Geraldine Burkes’ publishing house Words on the Street, Crannóg provides publication opportunities to International authors of short fiction and poetry. Crannóg 32 launches tomorrow night March 1st upstairs at the Crane…
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Strange tales of love and desire
Given the week that’s in it I thought I’d mention these tales of love and desire. It doesn’t come naturally to shout out about my stories but I’m proud of these and some of them have been published in reputable places and longlisted in major competitions and I’d be happy to have you read them.…
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Of poetry in stories
The writer Tom Gillespie has interviewed me on my new short story collections and on how poetry comes to play in my writing. I really enjoyed answering the questions and talking about influences on my writing style and what I want my prose to do. Here’s the interview.
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Deck the Halls: short story collection
Deck the Halls: Festive tales of fear and cheer is the latest offering from eMergent Publishing. These are speculative fiction tales with a festive theme. My story ‘Unfolding‘ is included which looks at what happens when a mother interferes in the pre-determined destiny of her child. Buy a copy: Directly from eMergent Publishing here. …
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