Word smith, knowledge artisan, and aspiring polymath.
Mauk Donnabhain is a queer, working-class writer from Donegal, Ireland.
His short story Drowndead was placed 2nd in the Flash 500 Short Story award in 2024, and he was shortlisted for the Stockholm Writers’ Festival First 5 Pages award in 2023. He has had work shortlisted for The Plaza Prize: Sudden Fiction (2023), and the Colm Tóibín International Short Story award (2020) and longlisted for the Minds Shine Bright competition (2023) and Write by the Sea (2025)
He has had other work published in Crannóg, The Honest Ulsterman, Profiles Literary Journal, Trasna, The Galway Review, The Belfast Review, and others.
He lives in London.
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