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Drama

2014 – Writer/producer of radio drama Strongbow’s Clock - Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound & Vision supported production with WLRfm. Director: Jim Nolan. 

2014 – Writer/producer of radio drama Cake - Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound & Vision supported production with KCLR 96fm. Director: Jim Nolan. 

2014 – Writer/producer of radio drama series The Daffodil - Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound & Vision supported production with KCLR 96fm. Director: Jim Nolan. 

2013 – Rehearsed reading of stageplay ‘The Angel of Szepfalu’ at STERTS Theatre, Cornwall. Runner up in the theatre’s annual One Act Play Prize. Director: Michael Simkins.

2013 – Screenplay ‘The Hole in the Moon’ selected for the Creative Arts England Script Hot House, a screenplay mentorship / development scheme , Writers’ Centre Norwich.

2013 – Writer/producer of radio drama Cow - Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Sound & Vision supported production broadcast on KCLR 96fm. Director: Jim Nolan. 

2013 – Stageplay ‘Shellakybooky’ one of five plays selected for staged reading with the European Contemporary Drama Review at UEA Drama studio. Director: Adina Levay.

2012 – Rehearsed reading of stageplay Shellakybooky at New Venture Theatre, Brighton as part of the city’s Arts Festival. Director: Nicholas Quirke.

 

Awards

Won: Grants for the Arts bursary from the Arts Council of England, to fund writing of debut novel (2013), Escalator Novel Writing Award (2013), Meridian Short Story Prize (2012),  Molly Keane Memorial National Short Story Award (2011), HISSAC Award (2011), Sussex Annual Playwrights’ Award (2011), Waterford Council Annaghmakerrig Award (2010), Ted and Mary O’Regan Arts Bursary (2010).

Runner up: Limnisa/Bluethumbnail Short Story Prize (2012). STERTS Theatre Award (2013).

Highly Commended: Twisted Stringybark Short Story Award (2012), New Writer Magazine Annual Prose and Poetry Prize (2011).

Shortlisted: BBC Writersroom4 Scriptwriting Submission Scheme (2014), HG Wells Short Story Grand Prize (2013), Shoreline International Screenplay Award (2013), BBC International Playwriting Award (2012), International Fish Short Story Prize (2012), Wells Festival of Literature Short Story Prize (2012, 2011), Greenacre Short Story Prize (2012), Meridian Winter, Summer and Autumn Short Story Awards (2011), Doris Gooderson Short Story Prize (2013, 2011).

Residencies: Artist-in-residence, Áras Éanna,Inis Oírr, Aran Islands (January 2013). Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan (2010, 2011, 2013).

Published Short Stories

 
 

2014 – ‘The Deaths of Anna Lakatos’, British Czech &Slovak Review, Issue 141. ISSN: 1471-9525

2013 – ‘The Boot’, HG Wells ‘Flight’ Anthology. ISBN: 978-0-9572485-3-3

2012 – ‘The Pretender’, Tainted Innocence Anthology. ISBN: 978-0-9872558-1-5

2011 –‘A Name in a Cave’, Duality  6, The Anthology.

2011 –‘Sheila-na-Gig’, New Writer Magazine, autumn edition. ISSN: 1363-1667

2011 – ‘Snailsock’, The Moth Literary Magazine, autumn edition. ISSN: 2009-308X

2009 – ‘The Shit Princess’, 2009 UEA Anthology. ISBN 978-0-9559399-3-8.

2008 – ‘I Am Not A Muse’, New European Writers Anthology: ISBN 978-83-923168-5-5.

Education

2014 – present PhD: Playwriting at the Royal Court Theatre, University of Lincoln, scholarship.

2008 – 2009 MA in Creative Writing, UEA, Norwich, UK.

2004 – 2008 BA (Hons) in English Literature from the Open University, UK.

1998 – Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Cork, Ireland. International Language Centre (www.corklanguagecentre.ie).  

1994 – Certificate in Journalism, FÁS (www.fas.ie/en), Waterford, Ireland. 

1988 – 1989 Foundation Certificate in Visual Art, Limerick School of Art (www.lit.ie).

Teaching

2011 – present Workshop leader, creative writing introductory workshops, U.K. and Ireland.

2011 – 2013 Online tutor of creative writing at www.writingclasses.co.uk.

2010 – 2014  Employed by A4E Justice to run the NOCN accredited creative writing course HMP Bure, Coltishall, previously tutored the same, and ESOL, at HMP Norwich, Norfolk.

2002 – 2008 Taught ESOL part-time and privately, Budapest, Hungary.

2000 – 2002 Director of Studies at Budapest International Language School (BILS).

1998 – 2000 ESOL Teacher at Budapest International Language School.

 

Journalism/Editing/Copywriting

2005 – 2008: Editor for the MoveOne publications portfolio.

2004 – 2005: Editor at Hungary A.M. (www.bbj.hu).

1996 – 98 -Newsreader at WLRfm (www.wlrfm.com).

1994 – 1998 - House reporter at Waterford Today (www.waterford-today.ie).

 

Freelance work: Live Encounters (www.LiveEncounters.net), Where Magazine (www.wherebudapest.hu), Business Hungary (www.amcham.hu/ businesshungary) Caboodle (www.caboodle.hu), Diplomacy & Trade (www.dteurope.com), Budapest Business Journal’(www.bbj.hu), Waterford News & Star (www.waterford-news.com).

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