Well, actually this is all about link, link rather than clink, clink, but I couldn’t resist.

If you’ve ever heard of me, you’ll know I write (mostly) poetry, flash fiction and short stories. So I thought I’d pull a few of my recent best bits together in one place.  Took me long enough – how could I expect anyone else to bother? So I wouldn’t blame you for never having sight of these pieces before…

So here are the links to a few samples of my writing (and you’re not allowed to comment that it’s all a bit so-so. So there.) So:

• The one that started it all, my nomination for the Hennessy Literary Awards, a short story published in the Irish Independent: ‘Flying Lessons’

• Winner of the 2015 HE Bates Short Story Competition:  ‘Five Staves And An Instant’

• One of the winners of the ‘I am Dublin’ Five Lamps Arts Festival Flash Fiction Competition 2016:  ‘Liffey. If He. Dares.’

• Third placed poem in Strokestown Poetry Festival’s Roscommon Poets’ Prize 2016:  ‘Fur Coat and No Knickers’

• A short story in triplicate: Bunker and Other Stories, Century in Reflection and ROPES 2016: ‘The Three Week Rebellion’

• Third placed poem in Strokestown Poetry Festival’s Roscommon Poets’ Prize 2015: ‘Yellowbrick Road’, alongside (if you scroll down far enough on the same page) shortlisted poem ‘Softly, Softly’: Strokestown 2015

• Short story published in the Mayo Advertiser: ‘A Week Without Mary’

*Apologies for the awful photo quality; I’ve asked Santa for another camera. Not sure if he reads this blog. Watch this space…