Reader, writer, rain fan. Greener (2024), Winter People (2022), The Ghostlights (2021) Where the Edge Is (2020) (all @Legend_Times_)
Cork, Ireland
Joined December 2011
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Helen, Annie & Laura drifted apart at 18 & are now drawn back together, but can old friends ever let us become new people?
If stories of friendship & regret, with added family tangles, are your thing, you can preorder #Greener from your local bookshop or online 🫶
Out 18/4/24 🍃
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ALT Back cover blurb: ‘Greener is an exploration of the changing dynamics of adult friendships and asks whether old friends can ever let us become new people
Gráinne Murphy retweeted
We are so proud of @GraMurphy who is shortlisted for the @RSLiterature The V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2025! Her recent novel GREENER is out now uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gree… #books #booktwitter #publishing
We're delighted to reveal the 2025 shortlist for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, supported by ALCS!
Congratulations to Lisa Blower, Christian Brinsden, Funmi Fetto, Edward Hogan, Gráinne Murphy and Rebecca Trick-Walker for this achievement.
#ALCSAwards #RSL #VSPritchett
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ALT Black graphic with text: Lisa Blower. Blessing in Burslem. Christian Brinsden, Delivery. Funmi Fetto, Unspoken. Edward Hogan, Becky and the Rockettes. Grainne Murphy, Good Woman Yourself. Rebecca Trick-Walker, Hawthorn.
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Delighted and grateful to be on the shortlist for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize for Good Woman Yourself, a story about the humour and anger in trying to control an uncontrollable world 🤗
#RSL #VSPritchettShortStoryPrize #ALCSAwards
We're delighted to reveal the 2025 shortlist for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, supported by ALCS!
Congratulations to Lisa Blower, Christian Brinsden, Funmi Fetto, Edward Hogan, Gráinne Murphy and Rebecca Trick-Walker for this achievement.
#ALCSAwards #RSL #VSPritchett
ALT Black graphic with gold details. Text reads: The V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. Shortlist 2025.
ALT Black graphic with text: Lisa Blower. Blessing in Burslem. Christian Brinsden, Delivery. Funmi Fetto, Unspoken. Edward Hogan, Becky and the Rockettes. Grainne Murphy, Good Woman Yourself. Rebecca Trick-Walker, Hawthorn.
ALT Headshots of shortlisted writers.
Gráinne Murphy retweeted
Congratulations to the 13 storytellers who have made the 2025 longlist for the @RSLiterature V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, which will be presented at the #ALCSAwards for the 2nd year running 📚
Read more: alcs.co.uk/news/longlist-ann…
Delighted that Good Woman Yourself is longlisted for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2025 🤗
Sylvanian Families, emotional labour, and Santa’s grave… I am very fond of this one and glad to see it here.
Thanks @RSLiterature and congrats to everyone on the longlist 🫶
Let's hear it for our 2025 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize longlist! 👏
Congratulations to our 13 writers, selected by judges Tash Aw, Tania Hershman and Fiona Mozley.
Stay tuned for our shortlist announcement on 27 January @ALCS_UK #ALCSAwards #RSL #VSPritchett
ALT Black graphic with gold details. Text reads: The V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. Longlist 2025.
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Gráinne Murphy retweeted
Tremendous excitement here at #CNA HQ as we prepare for tomorrow's @caledoniaaward longlist announcement!! We can't wait to share it with you 📚📚📚!! @AliceLutyens @iamciarafinan #writingcommunity
Gráinne Murphy retweeted
The WINNER of the New Irish Writing Best Short Story in association with the @Independent_ie is...
Kathleen Macadam for “Valentine's Day”
#APIBA #ReadersWanted #StoriesMakeUs
Thoroughly enjoyable chat with Shawn about Greener & some books I've loved recently, via optimism, fear, friendship, and meandering. This and more of Shawn's excellent Friday reads series available at youtube.com/watch?v=sH7pVGz2…
I'm off to pick up The Deluge 🤩
#Greener #FridayReads
Friday Reads: My book of the year - and other lovely bookish topics youtu.be/sH7pVGz2Nvo?si=i4ao… via @YouTube
Gráinne Murphy retweeted
There is still time to register for tonight's FREE event at 6:30pm BT!
Join the wonderful @WMEBooksUK team and find out what makes a submission stand out ✒️
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Gráinne Murphy retweeted
Irish Novelists Cauvery Madhavan on The Inheritance and Rónán Hession on Ghost Mountain
Thanks, @CauveryMadhavan & @MumblinDeafRo!
youtu.be/r8ACQV8Lo90?si=c1Py… via @YouTube
Always happy to see my books recommended, especially during #IrishBookWeek
Lots of Irish book ideas in the timelines this week - same hashtag across all platforms 🇮🇪📚
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New blog post: 6 things I've learned about reading for competitions anneolearyblog.wordpress.com…
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Reviews of the best children's books published recently, in this wk's Chronicle and other papers. @Gill_Books @FionaBooks @Peterocmedia @LittleIslandBks @leonoor_araujo @PenguinIEBooks @PuffinBooks
Greener *and* Winter People are both October kindle deals 📚
✔️ Great value if they sound like your thing
✔️ Pretty low stakes investment if you’re not quite sure they’re your thing but you’re up for finding out
#OctoberKindleDeals #Greener #WinterPeople #AutumnIsForReading
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Gráinne Murphy retweeted
Nochtadh clúdaigh
Dialann Emily Porter - Caillte agus Aimsithe
Réamhordú anseo
comhar.ie/leabhair/dialann-e…
#DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
Gráinne Murphy retweeted
Writer @JanCarson7280 is due to appear at the @WordsByWater at the start of October. Our #LiteraryFestival is on from 17th October to 20th October and there will be a #podcast about our festival coming out soon.
shorturl.at/YcIWP
Gráinne Murphy retweeted
Cauvery Madhavan, author of The Inheritance, will be appearing at the below events. Find each event below and pre-order your copy of her latest novel here:
hoperoadpublishing.com/the-i…
@inpressbooks @CauveryMadhavan
Gráinne Murphy retweeted
Mairéad Hearne will be chatting with two of A Post’s best new Irish Voices in Kinsale on Saturday 5th October book tickets at wordsbywater.ie
@Sheela_no_gig @swirlandthread
#noeloregan #wordsbywater #literaryfestivals
