Claire Keegan

I've picked up Claire Keegan's two books of short stories, 'Antarctica' and 'Walk the Blue Fields'. The first won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Treat yourself.

A Gender Thing

All six finanlists in this year's National Short Story Competition are female. I will never have a story published in MSLexiaMagazine and I will never be allowed enter for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Why does having a penis bar me from all these literary endeavours?

Perhaps I do a literary 'Tootsie'.