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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · 19d

I re-read this (just published, thanks to @andrewcareaga.bsky.social ) and was reminded that I should really get on with the writing projects I said I was working on!

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Fiction #CreativeWriting

Andrew Careaga (writer) @andrewcareaga.bsky.social · 19d

Today’s Friday Five shines a spotlight on Gary Finnegan @finnegag.bsky.social — winner of the @frazzledlit.bsky.social short story award for 2025! Read more about Gary here: andrewcareaga.com/2025/09/19/f... #WritingCommunity

Friday Five: Frazzled Lit short story winner Gary Finnegan

‘I am trying to get over a bad habit of submitting every piece of fiction I write.’

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · 24d

Good point - I'd better read the small print in case extreme acrobatics are involved!

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · 25d

Very grateful to have received an Arts Council Agility Award

As well as freeing me from some (less creative) work - giving me time to write, it is hugely encouraging to have this kind of endorsement

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go and write the thing I said I'd write...

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks a million, Gill!

Very glad you enjoyed it 🙏

Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social · 29d

Two lifelong friends party together. With skilful foreshadowing @finnegag.bsky.social establishes a growing unease as their differences start to show, suggesting disaster is on the horizon. Great story!

Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wow, @finnegag.bsky.social, what an incredible winning story in @frazzledlit.bsky.social! The voice and the building tension and the way you let us realize what has happened before the narrator...so good. www.frazzledlit.com/p/limbo-nights

Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very happy to be included and grateful for all the promotional effort Frazzled Lit makes to promote its writers 💥

Frazzled Lit *Opens 1st October* @frazzledlit.bsky.social · Sep 2

Highlighting our competition winner and the headliner of Issue 3: Gary Finnegan @finnegag.bsky.social
with his story Limbo Nights.

Delighted to have this wonderful writer as Frazzled Family!

open.substack.com/pub/authorjm...

Limbo Nights

By Gary Finnegan (Winner - 1st Place)

open.substack.com

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Sep 1

I've just read Amy's Mom - brilliant, from the incredible opening par to the final scab!

Amazing to get so much of these distinctive characters (and their moms!) in a short piece, as they cope with the unthinkable, growing up too fast

Also well worth a listen

www.frazzledlit.com/p/amys-mom

Amy's Mom

By Emily Rinkema (Winner - 3rd Place)

www.frazzledlit.com

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Jennifer McMahon @jmcm.bsky.social · Aug 30

Available now: my interview with Gary Finnegan @finnegag.bsky.social, winner of the Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social Short Story Award 2025!

You can read Gary’s story ‘Limbo Nights’ in Issue 3 of Frazzled Lit.

Issue 3 drops tomorrow morning!

www.frazzledlit.com/p/gary-finne...

Gary Finnegan - In Conversation

Winner of the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award 2025

www.frazzledlit.com

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks Mizuki!

Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Aug 11

Absolutely delighted to have won the Frazzled Lit Short Story Award!

Could hardly believe it when I got the news - and am even more stunned having seen the other writers in the final shake-up. Looking forward to reading all the finalists when they are published

Eternal thanks to Frazzled 🙏

Frazzled Lit *Opens 1st October* @frazzledlit.bsky.social · Aug 10

So pleased to announce the winners of the first Frazzled Lit Short Story Award!

Absolutely delighted with the support of this community for our mag and our writers.

Thanks again to all who entered and made this possible.

We 💛 you! 🥓 🥓 🥓
www.frazzledlit.com/p/announcing...

Announcing the WINNERS!

Selected by our judge, Nuala O'Connor

www.frazzledlit.com

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Jul 22

The only downside about going to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre to write for a whole week...is that you have to come home and take out the bins and go to Tesco and decide what to put in the air fryer.

Amazing week. Thanks to Kildare County Council Arts Service for the Residency Bursary Award 2025.

The view from a drawing room window of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in county Monaghan, Ireland. The Centre serves as an artists retreat for writers, visual artists, musicians, dancers and others.

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Jun 13

Nice to win second prize in the Southword Subscribers Flash Fiction contest

Thanks @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

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Jennifer McMahon @jmcm.bsky.social · May 21

I just posted our first recorded talk from our May event, Gary Finnegan @finnegag.bsky.social discussing his journey as a 'late emerging' writer. This is a thoroughly engaging talk, and a definite must-see!
www.creativecommunitysessions.com/p/gary-finne...

Gary Finnegan

Life as a 'late emerging' writer

www.creativecommunitysessions.com

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Apr 14

Still love it, Chris

Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Apr 14

Brilliant! Well done Chris - great to see

Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social · Apr 14

So pleased to appear in @fictivedream.bsky.social today, long a dream journal of mine. Thanks to @raecowie.bsky.social, @finnegag.bsky.social and @yalanchang.bsky.social for their help with this one.

Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · Apr 14

As part of MicroMonday #2 today we're featuring "Both of us were sons of unnamed dads of unknown whereabouts" by @chriscottom.bsky.social. Please follow the link and enjoy this tiny gem #microfiction #MicroMonday fictivedream.com/2025/04/14/m...

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Maynooth University English Department @maynoothenglish.bsky.social · Apr 2

In partnership w/Kildare Library and Art Services, we're looking for a Writer-in-Residence for 2025-26: application deadline 4 May. Pls spread the word!
universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni... @maynoothuniversity.ie @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social @irishlittimes.bsky.social

Writer in Residence, Department of English, Kildare County Council Library & Arts Services, Maynooth University | University Vacancies IrelandUniversity Vacancies Logo

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Mar 31

Thanks Oonagh! Much appreciated

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Mar 31

Delighted to have a story featured in the Irish Independent New Irish Writing pages last weekend

Also happy to have used "has an MA in creative writing from Maynooth University" in my bio for the first time - the ink is barely dry on the degree parchment!

m.independent.ie/entertainmen...

New Irish Writing: In Common Calamity by Gary Finnegan

Auntie June milks my tea, hands it over, says “Mind now, Liam, that’s hot”.

m.independent.ie

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Mar 7

Thanks Jason!

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Maynooth University English Department @maynoothenglish.bsky.social · Mar 7

Massive congrats to our MA CW graduate @finnegag.bsky.social, who's going from strength to strength with publications and prize listings! 👏 ⭐ @maynoothuniversity.ie

Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Mar 6

Very much appreciate how the London Independent Story Prize celebrates all finalists - looking forward to the launch of the anthology later in the year

www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk/post/gary-fi... #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #WritingContests #ShortStory @maynoothenglish.bsky.social

Gary Finnegan, London Independent Story Prize 3rd Round 2024 Finalist, 'The Soloist'

London Independent Story Prize 3rd Round 2024 Finalist, 'The Soloist', Gary Finnegan - Can you please tell us about you and your daily life? I’m a journalist and editor, mostly working on health and m...

www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Mar 6

Very much appreciate how the London Independent Story Prize celebrates all finalists - looking forward to the launch of the anthology later in the year

www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk/post/gary-fi... #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #WritingContests #ShortStory @maynoothenglish.bsky.social

Gary Finnegan, London Independent Story Prize 3rd Round 2024 Finalist, 'The Soloist'

London Independent Story Prize 3rd Round 2024 Finalist, 'The Soloist', Gary Finnegan - Can you please tell us about you and your daily life? I’m a journalist and editor, mostly working on health and m...

www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Feb 19

Finalist (flash fiction category) - and very happy about it!

Looking forward to the launch of the anthology in London later in the year

www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk/post/london-...

London Independent Story Prize 3rd Round 2024 Winners and Finalists!

London Independent Story Prize 3rd Round 2024 Winners and Finalists!The quantity of high-quality writing has never been greater!While congratulating our selected writers, we recognise the subjectivity...

www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Feb 17

Many thanks Matt - this one would not have happened without you and your guidance

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Feb 12

I'm outside my comfort zone with this piece of flash, but where better to publish it than @BendingGenres.bsky.social ?

Thanks @rgvaughan.bsky.social

bendinggenres.com/found-a-medi...

Found. A Medic’s Guide to Moral Calculus.

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Feb 10

First time entering @crankedanvil.bsky.social - very happy to be shortlisted

Congratulations to Chris & Laura - two worthy winners (both of whom have helped bring my own flash writing along over the past year or so)

Read their pieces!

@chriscottom.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social

Cranked Anvil @crankedanvil.bsky.social · Feb 8

* SHORTLIST & WINNERS *

The list for our Nov24 #flashfiction Prize is now online.

Congratulations to the winners and shortlisted entries, and huge thanks to everyone who submitted.

(Next deadline midnight UK time, Feb 28th)

#WritingCommunity #amwriting

crankedanvil.co.uk/2025/02/08/n...

November 2024 – Flash shortlist and winners

The judges have announced the shortlist and winners for our Nov24 Flash Fiction Prize, and we’re pleased to announce it here today. But before we do… NEW SHORT STORY PRIZE! We’re …

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Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social · Jan 27

4-minute fiction

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