McLaughlin’s remarkable debut novel...McLaughlin’s descriptions of the art and its appeal have an almost mythic quality...and she has a gift for precise characterization. This engaging and evocative … Read more
Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019
Absolutely thrilled to have won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019 … Read more
New York Radio Awards 2019
I was very happy with the dramatisation by RTE Radio 1 of my short story The Art of Foot-Binding. It recently took Silver for Best Writing at the New York Radio Awards. You can listen to it here: … Read more
Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019
I'm over the moon to have been long listed for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award 2019 alongside so many writers I admire #shortstoryawards … Read more
Being Various – New Irish Short Stories
I'm very pleased to have a story included in Being Various, the anthology of New Irish Short Stories published by Faber and edited by Lucy Caldwell. Here's a review of the anthology by Niamh Donnelly … Read more
Windham Campbell Prize 2019
"I am thrilled and astounded to be awarded this extremely generous prize. As a writer in the early stages of my career, the prize is hugely important to me, both in terms of the financial freedom it … Read more
