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Local author Tracy Fahey has just been nominated for the award for Best Novella in the British Fantasy Awards for her 2023 book, They Shut Me Up. It is her third time to be shortlisted for these prestigious awards. Fresh on the heels of being a finalist in the London Short Story Prize earlier this year, Fahey, who lives in Sixmilebridge, is delighted that her Clare-set novella is one of five shortlisted for the global awards, which take place in October. “They Shut Me Up is a novella based on a feminist reclamation of the turbulent and colourful life of Máire Rua O’Brien of Lemenagh Castle,” says Fahey. “I’ve been fascinated by her since I moved to Clare in 2018, a woman who in her own time was demonised as a witch, a torturer, a murderer, and even a sort of female Bluebeard.” This novella has attracted praise for its mingling of bio-fiction, folklore and feminism. Reviewer Georgina Bruce in …
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