News
July 2018
Winner of the Society of Authors’ Short Story Award. Read more here.
July 2018
A (very) short story in Flexible Persona – read it here.
May 2018
Runner-up in the Deborah Rogers Writing Award. Read more here!
April 2018
Winner of the Ginosko Literary Journal’s Flash Fiction Competition. Read more here!
April 2018
Another poem, Human Copyrite, this time in All the Sins Magazine. Read more here!
January 2018
Poem of the week in Headstuff. Read more here!
October 2017
2nd Place in the Allingham Festival Flash Fiction competiition. Read more here!
September 2017
Shortlisted for the inaugural Bray Literary Festival Flash Fiction competiition. Read more here!
July 2017
More poetry, this time in the Irish Times. Read it here!
December 2016
My second ever poem, Romance, is Redbird Chapbooks’ Weekly Read
Read it here!
October 2016
My story – There’s No One New Around You – is the winner of the 2016 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year 2016 Award.
Read more here.
October 2016
My story – The Speed of Light and How it Cannot Help Us – is the winner of the 2016 RTÉ Francis MacManus Award.
Listen to it, performed by Ingrid Craigie, here
August 2016
My first ever poem, ‘Animate Houses’, published in The Wild Word.
Read it here.
July 2016
Winner of The Great American Sentence Contest, 2016.
Read more here.
June 2016
Dublin South FM Interview
Some waffling away on the auld wireless here.
National Flash Fiction Day 2016
Longisted for this year’s Micro-Fiction competition. Read more here.
May 2016
Interview with the Dublin Gazette.
Read article here (on page 4 – the most important page of every newspaper, as we all know.*)
*after pages 9 and 17, obviously.
Hennessy Literary Awards
Winner of Best Emerging Fiction Category. Read more here – and read the story itself, Right or Good, here.
April 2016
Flash500 Short Story competition
Two stories shortlisted. Read more here.
Hennessy Literary Awards
Nominated for ‘Right or Good’ in the emerging fiction category. Read more here.
Colm Toibín Award
Longlisted for the Colm Toibín Award. Read more here.
New Millenium Writings
Finalist in the flash fiction category. Read more here.
March 2016
Fish International short story competition.
Two stories shortlisted.* Read more here.
*Then again, several billion other stories also shortlisted…
We know what you’re up to, Fish!
December 2015
Tuliptree Publications
3rd place in the Tuliptree Publications 2015 Short Story Prize. Read more here.
October 2015
Over The Edge: New Writer of The Year
Lascaux Review Fiction Prize
Winner of the Lascaux Review Fiction Prize 2015. Read more here.
Listowel Wriers’ Week
Shortlisted for the Bryan MacMahon Award.Read more here.
April 2015
Roberts/People’s College Short Story Award
Winner of the Roberts/People’s College Short Story Award.Read more here.
Dublin south FM Interview
Listen to some of Chris, waffling away on the auld wireless, here.
March 2015
Hennessy New Irish Writing
New story, Right or Good, in the Irish Times. Read more here.
Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction 2005-2015
Story to appear in the forthcoming Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction 2005-2015. Read more here,.. and read the story, Lovebirds, here.
January 2015
IWC Novel Fair
Longlisted for the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair.Read more here.*
*Not shortlisted, unfortunately.
May 2014
Hennessy Literary Awards
Nominated for ‘Lovebirds’ in the emerging fiction category. (*Spoiler: No wins for Chris.)Read more here, and listen to the story here, broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1