Louise Hegarty

Genres: Cork | Debut | Fiction | Irish Writing | Novel
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Louise Hegarty’s stories have appeared in Banshee, The Tangerine, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review and have been featured on BBC Radio 4. She was the inaugural winner of the Sunday Business Post/Penguin Ireland Short Story Prize and recently her story ‘Now, Voyager’ was produced as part of A City and A Garden, a new state-of-the-art sonic experience commissioned by Sounds from a Safe Harbour in association with Body & Soul and presented as part of Brightening Air | Coiscéim Coiligh. Her short story ‘Getting the Electric’, originally published in The Stinging Fly, has been optioned by Fíbín Media. Fair Play is her debut novel and was published by Picador in April 2025.

Louise Hegarty’s attendance at West Cork Literary Festival is supported by Picador

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