“…the best-selling author for 2023 for Hodges Figgis was Claire Keegan… she ‘was head and shoulders above anyone else’ with all her titles selling very strongly… ‘Claire Keegan has been phenomenal. We can’t keep her in stock.’”
Claire Keegan’s exquisite new short story So Late in the Day has been published today.
‘A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.’ The Times
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for signed, first edition copies.
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Sarah Jessica Parker includes Claire Keegan’s So Late in the Day as part of her favourite books of 2023.
“They are all glorious… and simply share one ingredient - supremely gifted authors.”
‘Keegan has condensed a colossal piece of humanist fiction into a tiny volume. Hugely affecting, the story of Bill Furlong will remain with readers long after they close the book: he represents everyone whose kindness outlasts their presence.’ (Financial Times)
“These stories… have new and powerful things to say about the ever-mystifying, ever-colliding worlds of contemporary Irish women and the men who stand in their way.”
Niamh Towey, Bernice Harrison, Ann and Róisín Ingle discuss Claire Keegan’s So Late in the Day in this hilarious podcast. Listen through attached link or any podcast platform.
Claire Keegan will be running a charity Xmas course in Dublin, in aid of the Brumby Safari Supporters -- a foundation which rescues, trains and rehomes wild horses in Queensland. If interested, please email clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com. All proceeds will go to charity.
Claire Keegan would like to invite you to Christmas Stories, December 16th at Carmelite Community Centre in Dublin City from 10am to 4:30pm.
All tuition will donated to Brumby Safaris Queensland for the rescuing and rehoming of neglected brumby horses.
The Stories of Anton Chekhov with Claire Keegan
Carmelite Community Centre, Dublin City
December 1-2, 2023 from 9:30am to 4:45pm
For more information, please visit
An Evening with Claire Keegan at the DLR LexIcon, Friday Dec 15th, 7pm - 9pm.
Keegan will join teacher and critic, Niall MacMonagle, in conversation.
This is a fundraising event for the National Print Museum, please follow attached link to book.
Two places have become available in Claire Keegan's manuscript workshop due to cancellations (one with manuscript, one without). 26 to 29 September, Tullow, Carlow. If interested, please email clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com. First come first served!
To celebrate 90 years of publishing, Faber & Faber is launching a publishing programme that showcases the masters of the short story form. In April 2019, Faber will publish The Forester's Daughter, a novella by Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan's new story, by the original title of "Small Things Like These", is being published in French under the title "Ce Genre de Petites Choses" by Sabine Wespieser and will be available in bookshops from 5 November 2020. For more details, see
Iron Mountain Literature Festival
The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
Friday 6th - Sunday 8th October 2023
Claire Keegan will give a series of seminars over the three days of the festival on ‘How Literature Works’.
How Fiction Works with Claire Keegan will be held at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, on October 6th, 7th & 8th from 9am to 1pm daily.
To book a place, please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com
A deposit of €100 and a completed booking form secures your place.
Claire Keegan invites you to join her for How Fiction
Works, September 22nd - 24th in White’s Hotel in Wexford Town Centre, in the Oscar Wilde Suite.
To book a place, please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com
More information at:
‘There’s an easy, fluent charm to Claire Keegan’s second novella that belies its core of steel and its shimmering rage at Ireland’s mother and baby home scandal.’ (Siobhan Murphy, The Times)
How Dialogue Works with Claire Keegan
Clayton Whites Hotel, Wexford Town
September 27, 28 & 29, 2024.
9am to 12:30pm daily
Tuition: €380
To book a place, please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com
***NEWS*** Due to a few cancellations, a limited number of places has become available in
#clairekeegan
's
#residentialcourse
in Tullow, Co. Carlow, in July/August:
If you are interested in joining us, please email clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com!
Great news!
#ClaireKeegan
and her French translator Jacqueline Odin were awarded the Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors' Award for Ce genre de petites choses! The English text, Small Things like These, will be published in October by
#Faber
#ckfictionclinic
Residential Writers' Retreat with Claire Keegan
August 27th to September 1st 2024
Teach Bhride Holistic Centre, Tullow Co Carlow
To book a place please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com
For more information, please see
Claire Keegan is honoured to be hosting Professor Mary McCay’s six-day course The Ways We Read.
To book your space or for further information regarding the course please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com.
How Fiction Works with Claire Keegan will be held at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, on October 6th, 7th & 8th from 9am to 1pm daily.
To book a place, please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com
A deposit of €100 and a completed booking form secures your place.
Congratulations to Fiona Ennis!
Fiona won the Molly Keane Award 2019, and the winning short story, ‘Debt’, will be published in the forthcoming issue of Sonder. Fiona will be reading at the launch, which will take place in Sin É in Dublin city centre on March 19 at 7pm.
“Be in Claire Keegan’s world.
Walk the Blue Fields.
Know Foster and inside Bill’s mind in Small Things Like These to experience one of the great, affecting and powerful Irish voices.”
‘Slim but lethal, Small Things Like These is one of those books that will stay with you forever and takes ferocious aim at the horrors of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland but also gives hope for the love and care people can show to one another.’ (Stilist)
#smallthingslikethese
Foster by Claire Keegan is Natalie Portman’s pick for her book club this December (
@natsbookclub
on Instagram).
“There's a warmth and complexity to Keegan's characters that I hope you all connect with as much as I have!”
We have a new page dedicated to readers who would love to re-read a powerful story they loved but can no longer find! Go to to tell us about the story you have lost, and see if you can help others find their buried treasure!
#ckfictionclinic
#stories
New course "A Day on Moby Dick" with Prof Mary McCay, who was Claire Keegan´s literature teacher at New Orleans University.
November 12, 2022
10am to 4:30pm
Tuition 100 euro
Location Carmelite Centre
Dublin City
Email clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com to book a spot
A place has opened up for The Ways We Read, Professor McCay's residential course on June 1st-6th 2023. If you are interested in booking a space on this course, please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com.
Claire Keegan is honoured to be hosting Professor Mary McCay’s six-day course The Ways We Read.
To book your space or for further information regarding the course please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com.
We are sorry to announce that all 2020 courses have been cancelled due to the Covid 19 emergency. We hope to see you at the January 2021 residential course. Keep safe.
#ckfictionclinic
#shortstory
The World of the American Short Story with Professor Mary McCay. Hosted by Claire Keegan.
November 30th and December 1st 2024.
Clayton/Whites Hotel, Wexford Town, 9am to 5pm, both days
For more information, visit attached link.
One space has become available for Residential Writers’ Retreat, May 23rd to 29th, Co. Carlow.
If interested in booking a place, please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com
Claire Simpson read Claire Keegan's short story "Dark Horses" as part of the celebrations for the 40th birthday of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Listen here:
"Dark Horses" won the RTE Radio 1 Short Story Competition in 2006.
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#shortstory
The Short Story with Claire Keegan
The River Mill Writers’ Retreat, Co Down. April 13 & 14 10am–5pm, both days.
This weekend course will explore the short story using works from You've Got to Read This (ed. by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard). Contact ckfictionclinic
@yahoo
.com
*Unique opportunity!* Claire Keegan will be running a manuscript-based workshop at the Carmelite Centre, Dublin, on 26 October (9.30 to 5). This is a great opportunity to have your work critiqued by Claire. Only one place remains! Email ckfictionclinic
@yahoo
.com to book.
WALK THE BLUE FIELDS
‘Keegan’s new collection of short stories shows her on impressive form … [she] is magnificent at capturing the rapturous, brimming vigour of the present and of nature.’ Observer – Paperback of the week
#clairekeegan
's next residential course will take place in January 2022 in County Carlow. More details coming soon: watch this space! Or, to receive news straight away, add your details to our mailing list by writing to clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com :)
#writingcourses
Women and The City: Professor Mary McCay’s 8 Week Online Course
March 12th – April 30th 2024
19:30 – 21:30 GMT
13:30 – 15:30 CST
For further information, please visit attached link to CK Fiction Clinic
Join Literature Ireland for an evening with Claire Keegan and her Argentinian (Spanish-language) translator, Jorge Fondebrider at Books Upstairs on Thursday, 9 March, 2023.
The reading list for the 'What's the point in Talking?' course, which will be held in Wexford on 5 and 6 October, is now available. For more information, check out our website. There are still three places available!
What’s the Point in Talking?
A Weekend on Dialogue with Claire Keegan
The Amber Springs Hotel, Gorey, Co. Wexford
9:45 am – 5pm, October 5 & 6.
Last two places available! Check out the website for more details:
FOSTER
‘Foster confirms Claire Keegan's talent. She creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion’ Hilary Mantel
Prof Mary McCay of Loyola University, New Orleans, is back in Ireland next weekend, teaching "A Day on Moby Dick"! Tuition is 100 Euro and the course runs from 10am to 4.30pm in the Carmelite Centre on 12 November. If interested, email clairekeeganfictionclinic
@gmail
.com now!
CONGRATULATIONS to the 2018 winners of the
#FrancisMacManus
Short Story Competition--click through for the stories on
@RTERadio1
. (Two of the top 3 are former students of Claire Keegan!)
#ClaireKeegan
will be holding her "Beginnings, Middles, Endings; The Structure of a Narrative"
#fiction
#writing
course in
#Singapore
on November 3 & 4. Full details, course description & booking at
We have a new interactive page on our website! The recommendations corner offers a chance to discover new tools for reading and writing. Claire Keegan's first recommendation is Annie Proulx's documentary.
#ckfictionclinic
#fictionwriting
#clairekeegan
Write by the Sea
Literary festival held from 27 to 29 September 2019 in Kilmore Quay, County Wexford, Ireland.
There will be interviews with national and international writers and experts, workshops, reading and talks. Download the full programme from .
The best books by women of the 21st century
On International Women’s Day, writers and critics picked the best works by women since 2000. Claire Keegan’s work was chosen by three of them. Read the article here