Mary Costello

Reading Saturday, 17 September with Kathleen Murray @ 4pm
The Ballroom, Metropole Hotel, Cork
Mary Costello, originally from Galway, lives in Dublin. Her stories have been anthologised and published in New Irish Writing and in The Stinging Fly, most recently in the Spring 2011 edition. She was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award, and in spring 2010 was a finalist in the Narrative Short Story Competition in the U.S. She received an Arts Council bursary in 2011. A collection of her stories will be published by The Stinging Fly Press in early 2012.
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