FLASH ARTICLE IN THE IRISH TIMES

I have a short article on flash fiction - the Word for Word column - in this weekend's Irish Times. Here!

COVER FOR MY NEW BOOK

Herewith the cover for my new chapbook of short-short stories/flash, coming from Tower Press, and launching at the American Conference for Irish Studies in San Francisco on Friday the 27th September. Galway and Dublin launches also being planned.

Maria Gasol is the cover artist and publisher Jodi Chilson is the designer. I love the job they did!

Dromineer Lit Fest Writing Comps - poetry & flash

The Dromineer Literary Festival Writing Competition is open for entries. There are two categories: Poetry and Flash Fiction. The Judges are Jean O'Brien for Poetry and John MacKenna for Flash Fiction.

Entry fee for poems is €5 for the first poem, plus €3 per additional title. Entry fee for flash fiction is €10 for each entry.

Prizes (in each comp.): 1st: €500, 2nd: €350 and 3rd: €150.

Deadline: 30th August 2013.

Further details: Dromineer Literary Festival

SOUTHWORD SUMMER 2013 - ONLINE NOW

The new issue of Southword is now online. The incomparable Ted Deppe is there with a poem called 'An Art Critic and the Colour Yellow' and also Nell Regan with a beautiful poem, 'Gifted'. There's a story full of smoky 1970s images from Switzerland-based Irish writer Pádraig Rooney called 'The Tin Tabernacle'.

There is poetry in Irish, an essay about a carjacking by Paula Cunningham and reviews of two recent books by Cork-born writers Dave Lordan (short stories) and Theo Dorgan's début novel Making Way.

I have a flash in there called 'The Road That Mills and Boon® Built' which is based on an anecdote told to me at Cúirt 2012 by a lovely young Irish woman who lives in London called Isolde Roche - thanks for the inspiration, girl.