The Salt Line

Novel · Ferryman Press

Fourth novel. Rights sold in six languages.

Harbour Light

Anthology, as editor · Long Walk Books

Nineteen new writers from the west coast.

The Quiet Fleet

Essays · Blackrock Editions

Shortlisted, Rooney Essay Prize.

Ninety Fathoms

Novel · Ferryman Press

Rights sold in fourteen languages.

Notes from a Low Shore

Essays · Blackrock Editions

Small Weather

Stories · Blackrock Editions

Winner, Kestrel Story Award.

A House by the Slip

Novel · Ferryman Press

Nine Tides

Anthology, as editor · Long Walk Books

The Long Walk

Stories · Blackrock Editions

Winter Crossings

Novel · Ferryman Press

First novel.

Rooney Essay Prize, shortlist

for The Quiet Fleet

Broadsheet Books of the Year

for Ninety Fathoms

Kestrel Story Award

for Small Weather

Arts Council Literature Bursary

Ireland

Kilbride First Novel Award, shortlist

for Winter Crossings

Writer in residence

Maritime Institute, Belfast

A year in the archive of the fishing fleet, which became The Salt Line.

Fellow

Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig

Coastal residency

Inis Oirr Arts Programme

Six weeks on the island, mostly walking.

Tutor, first chapters

The Old Customs House, Galway

One day a year, twelve places, always full.

Visiting tutor, MA in creative writing

University of the West

Fiction workshop, one term a year.

On writing work

Atlantic Letters

Long essay on labour in the contemporary Irish novel.

The archive and the anecdote

The Connacht Review

Reviews, roughly six a year

Broadsheet, Atlantic Letters, The Harbour Review