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Nuala O’Connor lives in County Galway. In 2019 she won the James Joyce Quarterly competition to write the missing story from Dubliners, ‘Ulysses’. Her fourth novel, Becoming Belle, was published to critical acclaim in 2018 in Ireland, the UK, the USA and Canada. Her next book, Nora, due in 2021, is a bio-fictional novel about Nora Barnacle, wife and muse to James Joyce. Nuala has published five collections of short fiction, including the flash chapbook, Of Dublin and Other Fictions. She is editor-in-chief at flash e-zine Splonk. She has won many flash and short fiction awards including the Dublin Review of Books Flash Fiction Prize, The Gladstone Flash Prize, RTÉ’s Francis MacManus Award, the Cúirt New Writing Prize, the inaugural Jonathan Swift Award, and the Cecil Day Lewis Award. She was shortlisted for the European Prize for Literature.

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