Hennessy Awards 2018

Hennessy 2018 nominees: First Fiction, Emerging Poetry, Emerging Fiction https://t.co/Mb7bU5zhof

— Irish Times Culture (@IrishTimesCultr) 10 March 2018

Extremely delighted to be amidst some pretty exalted company on the shortlist for the Hennessy Literary Awards 2018 - and especially in the same year that the venerable New Irish Writing reaches the half century milestone. 

Got some pretty cool post into the bargain, inviting me to the awards ceremony in Dublin the week after next - can't argue with that, though it is very definitely the first time my name has been on the guestlist for a party sponsored by Hennessy. Feel like a rap star. 

And of course had to go and buy a copy of the paper today, because I'm not a rap star - I am a geek.