I’ve just come back from an intense and very enjoyable week at Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s national creative writing centre. Over the years I’ve heard a lot about their courses and retreats; p...
I am officially coming out as a writer, it seems, having been given a Highly Commended place in the 2022 Emerging Writer prize from Moniack Mhor and the Bridge Awards. Thanks very much to them! I...
Lots of updates! My longish short story, The Iceberg, has been accepted for publication by Alt Hist magazine (for historical and alternate history fiction). It’s based on an amazing true story ...
https://andreamullaney.com/2013/09/03/story-news-writing-courses-book-reviews/
Happy to announce that I’ve got another story accepted by leading Scottish literary journal Gutter for their next issue, which comes out in time for the Edinburgh Book Festival (around which I ...
Firstly, here’s a blog I wrote for The Scotsman on the first Edinburgh Historical Fiction Festival this weekend (it’s below the one about ‘Thatcher’s musical legacy’). The shortlist has...
Well, lately I have just been racking up story rejections. As any fule kno, this is actually good, because it means I am writing and submitting stories, right? Yeah, it doesn’t feel that good t...
Here is a link to my Commonwealth prize-winning story on Granta. I absolutely love the picture they’ve chosen, the white jasmine emerging from the black background, beautiful, mysterious and a ...
To my genuine amazement, my story The Ghost Marriage has been named the winner (Europe & Canada region) of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize! I am delighted, of course, thrilled that the story i...
I’m delighted (and shocked) to have been shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize! It’s for a version of The Ghost Marriage, which I’ve been trying to turn into a longer book...
https://andreamullaney.com/2012/04/24/commonwealth-short-story-prize/
The Skye Literary Salon – which is a lovely sounding thing – runs a contest called The Baker Prize 2011. Now, I’m not one of those who enters every competition going but as soon as I heard ...
https://andreamullaney.com/2011/11/28/anne-and-the-skye-bun-prize/