writing
The Estate - a novel
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Paperback due out with Hachette in summer 2021. Earlier version published by Audible Studios, narrated by Denise Gough. Audible's 'crime & thriller pick of the month' in February 2020. Available to buy here. 
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Short stories
'Retreat'
Retreat is a novella (about 50 pages long), published as a Kindle Single.
I enjoyed this sad, wintry tale. ... The story, told with great tenderness, but also, I think, anger, captures the harshness of a time and place which seems - despite being so near - bafflingly different.
Top 1,000 Amazon reviewer
This is an absorbing short story of how repressed memories can be triggered by an unforeseen incident and the consequences that ensue. ... As the narrative unfolds, it cleverly uncovers relationships between the protagonists that are unsettling and quite sad right up to the surprise outcome. Enjoyable. Top 100 Amazon reviewer
A beautifully crafted story ... There are plot twists you will never see coming.
Amazon reviewer
Retreat is a novella (about 50 pages long), published as a Kindle Single.
I enjoyed this sad, wintry tale. ... The story, told with great tenderness, but also, I think, anger, captures the harshness of a time and place which seems - despite being so near - bafflingly different.
Top 1,000 Amazon reviewer
This is an absorbing short story of how repressed memories can be triggered by an unforeseen incident and the consequences that ensue. ... As the narrative unfolds, it cleverly uncovers relationships between the protagonists that are unsettling and quite sad right up to the surprise outcome. Enjoyable. Top 100 Amazon reviewer
A beautifully crafted story ... There are plot twists you will never see coming.
Amazon reviewer
'None Of Us Will Be Okay'
Issue 46 of Mslexia magazine.
Short-listed for the RTE Radio 1 Francis MacManus Short Story Competition 2010.
Shot through with a wry humour that edges towards the savage. Christina Patterson (Mslexia guest editor)
Issue 46 of Mslexia magazine.
Short-listed for the RTE Radio 1 Francis MacManus Short Story Competition 2010.
Shot through with a wry humour that edges towards the savage. Christina Patterson (Mslexia guest editor)
'Colette Went Quiet'
Issue 16 of The Manchester Review (available free online). Shortlisted for the 2012 William Trevor / Elizabeth Bowen short story competition.
Issue 16 of The Manchester Review (available free online). Shortlisted for the 2012 William Trevor / Elizabeth Bowen short story competition.
'The Strangler Tree'
Issue 110 of Confrontation magazine.
Issue 110 of Confrontation magazine.
'In Kalamazoo'
LITRO magazine's online 'Ones to watch' feature.
LITRO magazine's online 'Ones to watch' feature.
'You Cannot Look at the Risen Sun'
Short-listed for the 2009 Seán Ó'Faoláin Short Story Competition.
Published in Southword, spring 2009 (its last print edition).
Short-listed for the 2009 Seán Ó'Faoláin Short Story Competition.
Published in Southword, spring 2009 (its last print edition).
Poetry
- Joint runner up, 2015 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award.
- Winner, 2011 Dromineer Literary Festival Poetry Competition.
- Poems published in the Stinging Fly, The Interpreter's House, the Saturday Independent (New Irish Writing), Crannóg Magazine.
Radio
- A Living Word, RTE Radio 1, 2010, 2011 and 2012. (Click the links to read the 2010/2011 script The Natural History Museum and the 2012 one, On Weddings.)
- Francis MacManus Programme, RTE Radio 1, 2009.
- Sunday Miscellany, RTE Radio 1, 2004.
Essays and reviews
- The note for grief: Review of The Travels of Sorrow by Dermot Healy, Dublin Review of Books, March 2017.
- Suffer the little children: Review of Little Witness by Connie Roberts, Dublin Review of Books, October 2016.