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Internationally acclaimed author of Foster, Antarctica, and Walk the Blue Fields.

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Claire Keegan
8 months
“…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.’”⁦
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Claire Keegan
2 years
Claire Keegan's Small Things like These has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize! #bookerprize2022 #smallthingslikethese #irishwriting #writingcourses #creativewriting #ckfictionclinic
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Claire Keegan
1 year
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 @KennysBookshop for signed, first edition copies. #TikTok
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Claire Keegan
3 years
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan's new book, has just been published by #faber ! ‘Astonishing… Claire Keegan makes her moments real – and then she makes them matter.’ Colm Tóibín #ckfictionclinic #clairekeegan #irishwriters #creativewriting
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Claire Keegan
10 months
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.”
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Claire Keegan
3 years
‘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)
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Claire Keegan
10 months
“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.”
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Claire Keegan
3 years
Kennys of Galway have chosen Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These as their Book of the Year (and Christmas Tree's star!) #smallthingslikethese #ckfictionclinic #irishwriting #irishwriters #literature #clairekeegan #kennysofgalway #booksoftheyear
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Claire Keegan
9 months
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.
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Claire Keegan
2 years
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.
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Claire Keegan
1 year
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.
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Claire Keegan
1 year
A Stage Reading of Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan | Tue 19 December, 8pm - Pavilion Theatre To book a ticket, please visit link attached
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Claire Keegan
10 months
One space has become available for Quiet Writing Days, Nov 20th-23rd. If interested in booking, please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic @gmail .com
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Claire Keegan
1 year
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
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Claire Keegan
10 months
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.
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Claire Keegan
1 year
Claire Keegan has signed copies of her latest work So Late in the Day in several bookshops in Dublin city centre. Head to @Hodges_Figgis , @DubrayBooks on Grafton St, @easons on O’Connell St, @gutterbookshop in Temple Bar and @BooksUpstairs for these signed editions.
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Claire Keegan
1 year
Claire Keegan in conversation with Wendy Erskine Saturday August 5th, 3pm to 4pm at Strule Arts Centre
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Claire Keegan
2 years
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!
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Claire Keegan
6 years
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
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Claire Keegan
4 years
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
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Claire Keegan
1 year
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’.
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Claire Keegan
4 years
The Art of the Glimpse, an anthology that collects the very best Irish stories selected by Sinéad Gleeson, will be published on 1 October 2020. It includes #clairekeegan 's story 'Antarctica'. #ckfictionclinic #antarctica #shortstory #creativewriting #irishstories #writing
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Claire Keegan
1 year
How Fiction Works with Claire Keegan – Brisbane. April 29th, 30th & May 1st, from 9:30am to 4pm daily. For more information please visit:
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Claire Keegan
1 year
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.
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Claire Keegan
2 years
NEW COURSE! Claire Keegan will host a new course on the #shortstory in Tullow next February! See the link and email clairekeeganfictionclinic @gmail .com if interested! #ckfictionclinic #creativewriting #teachbhride
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Claire Keegan
2 years
Join Claire Keegan and @KathleenMurrayE in Arklow Library Tuesday March 28th at 7pm to discuss #TheDeadwoodEncore
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Claire Keegan
2 years
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:
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Claire Keegan
8 months
Three spaces have become available for How Fiction Works - Brisbane. Please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic @gmail .com to secure a place.
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Claire Keegan
1 year
How Fiction Works with Claire Keegan – Brisbane. April 29th, 30th & May 1st, from 9:30am to 4pm daily. For more information please visit:
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Claire Keegan
4 years
Claire's new book in French, Ce Genre de Petites Choses, has been shortlisted for the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro! The English version will be published by Faber in the autumn. Watch this space! #cegenredepetiteschoses #ckfictionclinic #clairekeegan #irishwriters
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Claire Keegan
3 years
‘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)
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Claire Keegan
4 years
#clairekeegan 's short novel, Small Things like These, will be published in October 2021 by Faber&Faber. The French version will be available this October here: #ckfictionclinic #smallthingslikethese #irishwriting #creativewriting #faberandfaber
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Claire Keegan
6 months
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
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Claire Keegan
2 years
***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!
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Claire Keegan
4 years
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
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Claire Keegan
1 year
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
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Claire Keegan
5 years
What I learned from Chekhov: A three-day course with #clairekeegan in Carlow. Read reviews of Claire's courses here: Course link: #ckfictionclinic #chekhov #shortstory #writingcourse #creativewriting #carlowcourses
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Claire Keegan
2 years
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.
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Claire Keegan
1 year
One space has become available for How Fiction Works this weekend. If interested in attending, please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic @gmail .com
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Claire Keegan
1 year
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.
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Claire Keegan
2 years
#clairekeegan will be at the Allingham Festival in Ballyshannon this November. Tickets can be booked here: #allinghamfestival #creativewriting #writingtips
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Claire Keegan
5 years
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.
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Claire Keegan
10 months
“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.”
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Claire Keegan
3 years
‘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
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Claire Keegan
10 months
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!”
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Claire Keegan
5 years
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
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Claire Keegan
2 years
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
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Claire Keegan
2 years
The Ways We Read, with Mary McCay
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Claire Keegan
1 year
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.
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Claire Keegan
2 years
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.
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Claire Keegan
2 years
Live Interview with Claire Keegan
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Claire Keegan
5 years
Six Days of Short Stories with #ClaireKeegan : An exploration of the #shortstory at the #CarmeliteCommunityCentre , #Dublin , taking place over six Saturdays. Participants can book just one Saturday or more, or even the whole course. For more info see
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Claire Keegan
4 years
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
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Claire Keegan
3 years
There is just one spot left in Claire Keegan's 2-day course on the short story and the novel, starting on 21 August 2021 in Wexford. For more information, please contact clairekeeganfictionclinic @gmail .com! #ckfictionclinic #writingcourses #literature #writingtips
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Claire Keegan
7 months
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.
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Claire Keegan
5 months
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
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Claire Keegan
3 years
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. #ckfictionclinic #shortstory
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Claire Keegan
6 years
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
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Claire Keegan
5 years
*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.
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Claire Keegan
6 years
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
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Claire Keegan
5 years
Congratulations to Madeleine D'Arcy on the publication of her début short story collection Waiting for the Bullet!
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5 years
Beginnings, Middles, Endings The Structure of a Narrative with Claire Keegan
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Claire Keegan
3 years
Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These is shortlisted for An Post’s Irish Novel of the Year. You can support it by voting online here: #ckfictionclinic #smallthingslikethese #irishnoveloftheyear #irishwriting #irishwriters #clairekeegan
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Claire Keegan
3 years
#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
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Claire Keegan
3 years
A review of Small Things Like These in The Times: #ckfictionclinic #smallthingslikethese #thetimes #thetimesuk
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Claire Keegan
5 years
Congratulations to Fiona Ennis for winning the #mollykeaneaward 2019!
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Claire Keegan
8 months
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
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Claire Keegan
2 years
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.
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Claire Keegan
5 years
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!
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Claire Keegan
4 years
New review of #clairekeegan 's short story collection #walkthebluefields in #thestingingfly . Read it here:
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Beginnings, Middles, Endings: The Structure of a Narrative with Claire Keegan
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Claire Keegan
5 years
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:
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Claire Keegan
6 years
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
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Beginnings, Middles, Endings: The Structure of a Narrative with Claire Keegan
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Claire Keegan
2 years
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!
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Claire Keegan
6 years
Rare opportunity for #writers in #Sydney and #Melbourne to study #fiction with #ClaireKeegan — this month only. Registration info at
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Claire Keegan
6 years
#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
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Claire Keegan
5 years
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
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Claire Keegan
5 years
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 .
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Claire Keegan
4 years
Shortlist for the Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award. The winner will be revealed in March. #clairekeegan #ckfictionclinic #cegenredepetiteschoses #smallthingslikethese #francophonieambassadorsliteraryaward
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Claire Keegan
6 years
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
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Claire Keegan
4 years
Claire's new online course is now booked out! Keep an eye of for news on upcoming courses.
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Claire Keegan
4 years
***COMING SOON*** Exciting news! #clairekeegan 's online #writingworkshop will start on 11 October 2020. To request more info, please email clairekeeganfictionclinic @gmail .com #ckfictionclinic #shortstories #shortstory #writing #creativewriting #onlineworkshops #irishwriting
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Claire Keegan
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The Short Story with Claire Keegan
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