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Billy O'Callaghan 1 posts 0 comments
Billy O'Callaghan was born in Cork, and is the author of three short story collections: 'In Exile' (2008) and 'In Too Deep' (2009), both published by Mercier Press, and 'The Things We Lose, the Things We Leave Behind' (2013), published by New Island Press.
Winner of the 2013 Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award for Story of the Year and among several other honours, his fiction has been selected as Ireland's sole representative in the ongoing UNESCO Cities of Literature Project, and has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Bliza, Confrontation, The Fiddlehead, Hayden's Ferry Review, Kyoto Journal, The Los Angeles Review, Narrative Magazine, The Southeast Review, Southword, and numerous other magazines and journals around the world. New work is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Per Contra and London Magazine. He also reviews books for the Irish Examiner.