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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 …

FANTASY is the forté of Sixmilebridge-based novelist and academic, Tracy Fahey, who has just been shortlisted for another prestigious award. Tracy, who is Head of the Department in Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD), has taken a place on the shortlist for the Best Collection in the British Fantasy Awards for her short story collection, I Spit Myself Out. It is her second time to be nominated for this sought-after prize. Fresh on the heels of being awarded a prestigious fellowship in Finland for 2023, Tracy is delighted to be one of five writers shortlisted for these global awards, which will be presented in London in September. The shortlist was announced following votes from the British Fantasy Society (BFS) membership and initial conversations by the juries. Jurors in the Best Collection category are Wendy Bradley, Jay Faulkner, Brian Kinsella, Abbi Shaw, and Filip Drnovšek Zorko. “I Spit Myself Out was a passion project, a book I’ve wanted to write for …

SIXMILEBRIDGE based author and Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) lecturer Tracy Fahey has overcome the limitations of lockdown to produce a new collection of stories entitled, I Spit Myself Out. Tracy, who is Head of Department of Fine Art and Education, at the Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD), had to face and overcome the challenges of Covid-19 in order to produce the collection. She penned I Spit Myself Out during the anxious days of the first lockdown of 2020. Her previous book, The Unheimlich Manoeuvre, nominated in 2017 for a British Fantasy Award, explored the psychological terrors of the enclosed female domestic sphere. Tracy said that, given this preoccupation with confined spaces, writing during the pandemic wasn’t easy. “I found it difficult to write this book,” she said. “There was the cognitive dissonance of trying to stay cheerful and mentally healthy, and then the imperative of going to these dark places to write. Now that I re-read this book, the inflections of …