![]() Kearney Byrne is joined on the longlist by Joseph O’Neill, the New York-based Irish author best known for the novel Netherland, and Irish-American writer Molly McCloskey, as well as such distinguished names as Miranda July and Curtis Sittenfeld and former winners Yiyun Li and Jonathan Tel. Kearney Byrne has an MA in Creative Writing from University College, Dublin and was awarded the John McGahern Award (2016) with a residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre and an Irish Arts Council Emerging Writer Award (2017) to assist in the completion of a novel begun on the MA. In 2013 she was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and was a finalist in the 2015 Hamlin Garland Award (Beloit Fiction Journal, USA). She has won the Francis MacManus (2012), Bryan MacMahon (2014) and WOW (2016) Awards. A psychotherapist as well as a writer, her longlisted story Buck Mad is a frank and powerful account of a gay relationship told in two parts by the protagonists. ![]() ![]() Phil Kearney Byrne is originally from Dublin but she and her partner now live in Co Leitrim in a straw-bale eco-house on nine acres of land. An unpublished Irish writer has been longlisted for the second time for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, which at £30,000 for the winner is the world’s richest and most prestigious prize for an English-language single short story. ![]()
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