Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill

 

Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill

Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill

http://www.writersinksligo.com/
"Aherlow," Strandhill
Co. Sligo, Ireland

orfs@iol.ie

Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill is a writer and facilitator of creative writing workshops. She lives in Strandhill, Co. Sligo. Her poems, short stories and interviews have been published in Force 10 and other magazines. One of her stories, Kikuyu Grass, was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 1999. Her first novel, The Man With No Skin, was published in the USA in 2005. The critics have described it as ‘a powerful novel’ - Irish Emigrant Review , ‘fast paced and very well written’ -Fearless Books and ‘a small book, beautifully written; a large message lovingly tendered’ - Madge Walls. The Man With No Skin is available in bookshops in Sligo but has not yet been released throughout Ireland.

The Man with No Skin by Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill

Órfhlaith is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin with an M. Phil.(Creative Writing). Her creative writing workshop, Writers’ Ink, is affiliated to Amherst Writers & Artists and uses the AWA (Pat Schneider) method. Weekly workshops are held in Dolly’s Cottage, Strandhill. Day and weekend workshops can be arranged countrywide on request. The Writers’ Ink anthology: Dolly Mixtures - Voices from Dolly’s Cottage (with double cd) is on sale in Sligo bookshops. e-mail orfs@iol.ie.

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