Professor Eoin Devereux, a lecturer at University of Limerick (UL), has been shortlisted for a 2018 Hennessy Literary Award. 18 writers have been shortlisted for the prestigious Hennessy Awards, which celebrate the work of emerging Irish writers.<\/p>\n
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Professor Devereux told An Focal<\/em> that he is \u201cthrilled\u201d to be shortlisted. \u201cAlthough I’ve been writing on and off since my teens, I returned to creative writing in a more serious way in 2012 and concentrated, initially, on short fiction,\u201d he explained. \u00a0\u201cA flash fiction version of my short story \u2018Mrs Flood\u2019 was broadcast by RTE Radio 1.\u201d Professor Devereux\u2019s short fiction and poetry has been published in numerous journals, including Wordlegs, Number Eleven <\/em>and Southward. <\/em>His shortlisted poem \u2018The Bodhi Tree\u2019 first appeared in the Irish Times in June 2017.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Professor Devereux is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and is also involved with the creative writing programs at UL. \u201cI work closely with my colleagues Joe O’Connor, Donal Ryan and Sarah Moore in UL’s Creative Writing Programme and I am looking forward to teaching about Punk and Creative Writing at our Summer School which will be held in UL on the May Bank Holiday Weekend,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marina Carr, recipient of the Hennessy First Fiction Award in 1994, and Welsh writer Niall Griffiths will judge the winning pieces. The award ceremony will take place at the Kings Inns in Dublin on March 21st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n