Gráinne O’Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022. She has been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition, the Bridport Prize, the London Magazine Short Story Prize and and the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and has completed a PhD on eighteenth-century's women's life-writing at Newcastle University. Her debut novel, Thirst Trap, was shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

Hilarious and gut-wrenching

Gráinne O’Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022. She has been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition, the Bridport Prize, the London Magazine Short Story Prize and and the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and has completed a PhD on eighteenth-century's women's life-writing at Newcastle University. Her debut novel, Thirst Trap, was shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

Hilarious and gut-wrenching

Gráinne O’Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022. She has been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition, the Bridport Prize, the London Magazine Short Story Prize and and the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and has completed a PhD on eighteenth-century's women's life-writing at Newcastle University. Her debut novel, Thirst Trap, was shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

Hilarious and gut-wrenching