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In November 2019, The Limerick Writers’ Centre published a collection of my stories, People In My Brain. Just in time for the COVID pandemic.

I am beginning to send out my recently finished novel Being Alive. It has been mentored by Niall Williams as part of Words Ireland Mentoring Program 2021, and was shortlisted for the Orna Ross Green Stories Novel prize. Being Alive is a contemporary novel about two single parents; Donnacha, a socially awkward farmer, and Emma, an easy-going technophile, who are brought together in their efforts to make ends meet against a background of climate change and environmental activism.

NV Road. Flash fiction. In: Envy; Deadly Sins. Volume 6. Pure Slush Books. March 2019.

Advice and Sandwiches. Short story; First published in Irish Independent November 2011. Available in the Hennessy New Irish Writing Anthology, New Island, c.April 2015.

The Haggard. Short story. In Southword Issue 21, 2012. www.munsterlit.ie/Southword/Issues/21/oconnor_pg.htm
Also in Pigs Feet, White Socks & Hoovers. 2013. Southword Editions. ISBN 978-I-905002-38-2

The Present. Flash Fiction. Revival. 2012.

Creeping. Short Story. Crannog 34, Autumn 2013.

Sex for the Organism. Short story; The Penny Dreadful, Issue 3, 2014.

Don’t Start Listening to This Story. Short story for Radio. Francis McManus Competition, RTE 1, 2011.

This Time It’s Different. Radio Play. 95FM December 2014.

The God of Thin Women. Short Story. Crannog 38, Spring 2015.

Don’t Start Reading This Story. Short Story. The Penny Dreadful, Issue 6, 2015.