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ABROAD WRITERS’ CONFERENCE Lismore Castle, Ireland, December 9-16, 2013 Short Short Story Contest Judge: ROBERT OLEN BUTLER, Pulitzer Prize Winner & F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature Three Winning Stories will be published in the February … Continue reading →

ABROAD WRITERS’ CONFERENCE Lismore Castle, Ireland, December 9-16, 2013 Short Short Story Contest Judge: ROBERT OLEN BUTLER, Pulitzer Prize Winner & F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature Three Winning Stories will be published in the February … Continue reading →

I learned several weeks ago, while in NYC, standing in line to visit the 9/11 Memorial, that I had won the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award, a prize hailed as “one of Ireland’s most prestigious awards for the single short … Continue reading →

Ethel Rohan knows how to startle the dark. Her compassionate intensity illuminates the prose and the people of Goodnight Nobody—thirty short stories that are as sharp as they are earnest, luminous stories that reflect with sparse elegance our humanity and our … Continue reading →

Further to my review of Brian Sousa’s story collection, Almost Gone, at Necessary Fiction, I have an immaculate copy of same book to give away. Just head over to Necessary Fiction, leave your name and a way to contact you … Continue reading →

My mother, Kathleen, passed away on April 11th and I returned last night from Ireland and her funeral services. I feel wrecked in many ways. In the end, just some seventy-odd pounds and completely erased by Alzheimer’s, I’ve expected her … Continue reading →

I’m teaching a three-hour intensive on the short-short story this Saturday at Book Passage, Corte Madera. The class is limited to 10 and I believe there are now only 3 spots available. Won’t you join me? You can register here. … Continue reading →

gave an astonishing amount of time and love to my work, in particular my story collection, Cut Through the Bone. I would be so grateful if you took the time to visit Mel’s website The Reading Life which is dedicated … Continue reading →

My thanks to Kate Brown, Fiction Editor, The Front View, for including my short-short story, “The Care of Babes”. Most of my stories have betrayal as their subtext, but I believe this is the first time I’ve ever overtly written … Continue reading →

Christopher Allen, curator of I Must Be Off!, a website dedicated to interviews with expats, kindly featured me here. An excerpt: “As a child I struggled with learning differences and for years attended what in Dublin we called “remedial classes” … Continue reading →