Author: Mauk Donnabhain
Mauk Donnabhain is a queer, working-class writer from Donegal, Ireland.
His work was shortlisted for the Stockholm Writers’ Festival First 5 Pages award in 2023, and he has had short stories 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 and others.
He lives in London.
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