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Gender Female
Occupation Writer
Location Kilkenny, Ireland
Introduction Mary Healy Kilkenny based writer Mary Healy is a graduate NUI Maynooth of Creative Writing for Publication. Her work has been published in several anthologies and broadcast on radio. Her work also won prizes in The Irish Writers Centre in 2011 and 2012, and features in their archives. This year she won the UCD Masters Anthology Competition 2012 and will be published in their collection of short stories in December 2012. ‘New Trick with Matches.’ She was highly commended on the short list in the Bryan MacMahon Competition in Listowel Irish Writers week and in the top ten of RTE Guide Penguin/Eason’s Short Story Competition.
Interests She has been selected among the prize winners, honourably mentioned and published in the following competitions and publications: Over the Edge Writer of the Year 2010, 2011 short list Penguin Eason/RTE Guide Competition 2010, 2012 short list Limerick Writers Centre December 2010 Creative Writing Inc 2010 Flash 500 Fiction 2010 Fish Writing Competition 2011 Original Sins New Irish Writers 2011.Anthology Cork County Library and Arts Service short story 2011, 2012 Winners Anthology. Irish Writers Centre Lonely Voice Competition Sept winner 2011, April 2012 Listowel Writers’ Week Bryan Mac Mahon. Highly commended on short list 2012 Big Book of Hope short list 2012 RTE Penguin/Eason’s short story competition. Top ten on the list 2012 Anam Cara short list 2012 Fish Flash Short Story Competition Long List 2012 RTE Ten UCD MA Anthology 2012 Winner. Published Dec 2012