Tuesday 14th May, I'll be reading at the Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire at the launch of Seawords, a pamphlet of new writing marking the culmination of an 8-week course about the sea. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/seawords-tickets-881935511857?aff=oddtdtcreator
Category: Writing
National Flash Fiction Day Anthology
https://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/news Delighted to have a piece in this on the theme of water.
Faber Academy Course Scholarship
Can't quite believe I've been awarded a scholarship for a Finish Your Draft, 9-month course with the Faber Academy. Thrilled, honoured, slightly scared! And determined to finish my novel.
Dun Laoghaire Lexicon Library Reading
List of readers at the end of an 8-week short story course in Dun Laoghaire at the Lexicon library with one of the two Emerging Writers-in-Residence, Sonya Gildea.
Some big, sunny, scholarship news!
A dream writing scholarship to the island of Patmos with https://www.goodworldjourneys.com/ Something to look forward to on a dreary Monday in January. I think it's the fifth Monday, although it feels like the tenth!
Stellate
From longlist to shortlist – The Welkin Writing Prize – The Welkin Mini 2024
The Welkin Writing Prize – The Welkin Mini 2024 Longlist
My teeny-tiny piece made it to the longlist! https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize/news
Irish College Leuven, Belgium.
Very lucky to be in this beautiful part of Belgium for two weeks to write (and eat a Belgian waffle or two!). Got to visit Amsterdam to see the musuems and fulfil a lifelong wish to see Anne Frank's house.