I re-read this (just published, thanks to @andrewcareaga.bsky.social ) and was reminded that I should really get on with the writing projects I said I was working on! #WritingCommunity #Writers #Fiction #CreativeWriting

Very grateful to have received an Arts Council Agility Award As well as freeing me from some (less creative) work - giving me time to write, it is hugely encouraging to have this kind of endorsement Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go and write the thing I said I'd write...

Thanks a million, Gill! Very glad you enjoyed it 🙏

Very happy to be included and grateful for all the promotional effort Frazzled Lit makes to promote its writers 💥

Available now: my interview with Gary Finnegan @finnegag.bsky.social, winner of the Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social Short Story Award 2025! You can read Gary’s story ‘Limbo Nights’ in Issue 3 of Frazzled Lit. Issue 3 drops tomorrow morning! www.frazzledlit.com/p/gary-finne...

Absolutely delighted to have won the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award! Could hardly believe it when I got the news - and am even more stunned having seen the other writers in the final shake-up. Looking forward to reading all the finalists when they are published Eternal thanks to Frazzled 🙏

The only downside about going to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre to write for a whole week...is that you have to come home and take out the bins and go to Tesco and decide what to put in the air fryer. Amazing week. Thanks to Kildare County Council Arts Service for the Residency Bursary Award 2025.

Nice to win second prize in the Southword Subscribers Flash Fiction contest Thanks @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

I just posted our first recorded talk from our May event, Gary Finnegan @finnegag.bsky.social discussing his journey as a 'late emerging' writer. This is a thoroughly engaging talk, and a definite must-see! www.creativecommunitysessions.com/p/gary-finne...

Brilliant! Well done Chris - great to see

In partnership w/Kildare Library and Art Services, we're looking for a Writer-in-Residence for 2025-26: application deadline 4 May. Pls spread the word! universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni... @maynoothuniversity.ie @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social @irishlittimes.bsky.social

Delighted to have a story featured in the Irish Independent New Irish Writing pages last weekend Also happy to have used "has an MA in creative writing from Maynooth University" in my bio for the first time - the ink is barely dry on the degree parchment! m.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Massive congrats to our MA CW graduate @finnegag.bsky.social, who's going from strength to strength with publications and prize listings! 👏 ⭐ @maynoothuniversity.ie

Very much appreciate how the London Independent Story Prize celebrates all finalists - looking forward to the launch of the anthology later in the year www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk/post/gary-fi... #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #WritingContests #ShortStory @maynoothenglish.bsky.social

Finalist (flash fiction category) - and very happy about it! Looking forward to the launch of the anthology in London later in the year www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk/post/london-...

I'm outside my comfort zone with this piece of flash, but where better to publish it than @BendingGenres.bsky.social ? Thanks @rgvaughan.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/found-a-medi...

First time entering @crankedanvil.bsky.social - very happy to be shortlisted Congratulations to Chris & Laura - two worthy winners (both of whom have helped bring my own flash writing along over the past year or so) Read their pieces! @chriscottom.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social

4-minute fiction roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/...

Nice to be on the shortlist for the Fusilli Writing competition 🤞

This one, from The Phare, was published last month. *** The posters began appearing in June on lampposts and billboards visible from the main road: ‘Come home, we love you, Mum.’ *** www.thephare.com/posterchild

"She was our queen to be protected. She was an enemy, bent on our destruction." www.roifaineantpress.com/post/in-the-... Thanks @rfpress.bsky.social ❤️

Happy Christmas to all who celebrate! Happy Hannukah to those who celebrate! Happiest Wednesday in Winter to those who do not! Enjoy this bite of something from the heart “In the Heat of the Trenches (of Early Parenthood)” by @finnegag.bsky.social from our 80th out 12/29!

It's been a wild week. Had a piece rejected, missed out on a longlist I kinda fancied, and was nominated for a Pushcart for a short story Then: nominated for a second Pushcart by Flash Fiction Magazine for a shorter piece (This writing) Life is a rollercoaster - as Ronan Keating once noted

The lovely editors at Howl have nominated me for the @pushcartprize.bsky.social and I'll never forget it! 🙏

Some days, you think you're doing this writing thing all wrong and may never get it right Some days, a publication you love gets in touch to say they like something you've submitted and would like to publish it Today is a good day thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-afte...

Really happy to see this short piece published by @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Thanks to @sagreene1.bsky.social for including it in the shortlist

As chosen by judge S. A. Greene @sagreene1.bsky.social FFF Competition Nineteen Shortlisted: Biology Lessons by Gary Finnegan @finnegag.bsky.social linktr.ee freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

Here we go - drum roll please.... As chosen by judge S.A. Greene @sagreene1.bsky.social The FFF Competition Nineteen Shortlist ! #flashfiction Congratulations to all on the list... freeflashfiction.com/competition-...

2024 off to a good start - longlisted for the @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Competition

I wrote this piece based on an inspired/inspiring prompt from Paul Lynch as part of the Maynooth University MA in Creative Writing - great to see it published online and in print thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2023/11/24/w...

A 2023 highlight: reading at the Allingham Festival & winning 3rd prize in their #FlashFiction Contest It's the story of a couple in a nursing home - and the nurse who facilitates their fortnightly date night... youtu.be/A5SnYmSKInY?...

#Writing highlight of the year: an email from The Honest Ulsterman saying they'd take a #shortstory of mine - first time I've had #fiction published humag.co/prose/on-the... #creativewriting

Lovely to see my short story published by Silver Apples Magazine - this one is about a boy who has a lot of worries: does his Dad like him? What's up with Mam? And will we ever get abs? #shortstories #fiction silver-apples.squarespace.com/redemption-2...