Kanturk Arts Festival – A Prize

https://kanturkarts.ie/2019-flash-fiction-winners/ Well...there's been a lot of shortlists lately, which is of course a good thing. Benedict Kiely in October, Iceland Writers Retreat in December, Centre Culturel Paris in February and this - the Kanturk Arts Festival. With twenty-five on the shortlist, I had resigned myself to my mantra of 'being shortlisted is a win'. And…

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Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. Another Shortlist

  Le prochain fois, je te jure!

Kanturk Arts Festival Flash Fiction Competition 2019 Shortlist

First piece of flash I've ever written.  

Downhill Beach House Writing Retreat

The house twinkles in the dark. The heat rushes to meet you as you open the front door. It's warm, cosy rooms relax and inspire and the fresh air on the beach clears the head. It's my first writing retreat. I've always been terrified of them. Afraid I would get there and my creativity would…