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Tag: Short Story

Dare You: a short story by Laetitia Erskine

5th September 2021  Laetitia Erskine

In this powerful short story, an artist walks on the marshes near her home, treading a dangerous line between sea and land, haunted by her own demons and her memories of a drowned friend.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Fiction, Laetitia Erskine, short fiction, Short Story

Interview with award-winning author Catherine McNamara: ‘I wanted to write about love, in different forms, different lives and different times of our lives too’

26th July 202126th July 2021  Suzannah Ball

Our writer Suzannah Ball talks to award-winning author, Litro editor and mentor, Catherine McNamara about her latest collection of flash fiction, the differences between flash and the short story form, and how travel and migration have influenced her work.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Catherine McNamara, Creative Writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Interview, love, Love Stories for Hectic People, Reflex Press, short fiction, Short Stories, Short Story, The Cartography of Others, writing

Female: a short story by Suzannah Ball

13th May 202113th May 2021  Suzannah Ball

The morning after a sleepover reveals the toxic friendship between two young women, in this compelling short story by Suzannah Ball.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: female friendships, friendship, Short Story, toxic friendship

‘The Go-Get-Gone’ by Judy Darley

1st May 202017th May 2020  Judy Darley

Amanda is out for the night with her new school mate, Lea. But when her so-called friends – an assortment of symptoms from her Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) – turn up, she finds it hard to determine who and what is real.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fiction, Judy Darley, Night / Shift, nightclub culture, Nightclubs, Short Stories, Short Story, Teenagers, The Go-Get-Gone

Speaking from the Body: Trauma, Pregnancy and the Eighth Amendment in Contemporary Irish Writing

15th September 201922nd May 2020  Laura Hackett

For women in Northern Ireland and a post-Repeal Republic telling stories which speak from the body and its traumas remains a powerful tool, argues Laura Hackett when considering the work of Sally Rooney, Lucy Caldwell, Sinéad Gleeson and others.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Abortion, Anna Burns, Being Various, Constellations, Conversations with Friends, Eimear McBride, Fiction, Ireland, Irish Literature, Lucy Caldwell, Milkman, Normal People, Novel, Pan Macmillan, Rebecca O'Connor, Sally Rooney, Savita Halappanavar, Short Stories, Short Story, Sinéad Gleeson, The Eighth Amendment, The Lesser Bohemians

‘A Very British Rebellion’ by Emily Slade, Winner of the Lucy Writers Flash Fiction Competition

28th May 201916th June 2019  Emily Slade

Dad just wants a quiet night in front of the tele, but when next-door starts playing loud music the evening takes a nasty turn. Emily Slade’s short story, ‘A Very British Rebellion,’ unites sharp dialogue with jolting images in an off-kilter tale about un-neighbourly hostilities.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Creative Writing, Emily Slade, Flash Fiction, Lucy Writers Flash Fiction Competition, Short Story
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