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by Frank McGuinness


  Claire Simpson is originally from north Antrim. She read English at TCD and creative writing at Queen’s. Her work has been published in Crannóg and on Spontaneity.org. She is studying for a Ph.D. at the Seamus Heaney Centre and lives in Belfast.

  BRIDGET SPROULS

  Bridget Sprouls is from New Jersey. Her poems and stories have appeared in the Belleville Park Pages, Steps Magazine, Scrivener Creative Review, Casino, The Red Wheelbarrow Poets Anthology and the McGill Daily. In 2013, her work was shortlisted for the Atlantic Writing Prize in the categories of Short Fiction and Writing for Children.

  Universities

  NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY

  Mike McCormack (Fiction Tutor)

  Helena Kilty

  Ruth Quinlan

  QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST

  Dr Darran McCann (Creative Writing Lecturer)

  Sheila Llewellyn

  Claire Simpson

  TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

  Gina Moxley (Creative Writing Graduate)

  Fergus Cronin

  Derek Flynn

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

  Professor Frank McGuinness (Writer-in-Residence)

  Dr Éilís Ní Dhuibhne (Fellow in Creative Writing)

  Colin Corrigan

  Paula McGrath

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK

  Mary Morrissy (Writer Fellow)

  Madeleine D’Arcy

  Bridget Sprouls

  Copyright

  This eBook edition first published 2014 by Brandon,

  an imprint of The O’Brien Press Ltd,

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  Dublin 6, Ireland.

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  Website: www.obrien.ie

  First published 2014

  eBook ISBN: 978–1–84717–703–2

  Each short story and the introduction © to its author.

  The collection © The O’Brien Press Ltd.

  Typesetting, editing, layout, design © The O’Brien Press Ltd.

  Cover image: ‘Lacken II’ by Emma Byrne. Copyright © Emma Byrne.

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or in any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

 

 

 


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