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Kelly Creighton


Born
in Belfast
July 18, 1979

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Genre
Fiction, Thriller, Contemporary


Kelly Creighton is a Northern Irish novelist, crime writer, short story writer, playwright and poet.

She is the author of the Belfast based DI Harriet Sloane series (Friday Press):
THE SLEEPING SEASON, Sloane #1,
PROBLEMS WITH GIRLS, Sloane #2,
THE TOWN RED, Sloane #3.
The fourth instalment is coming in spring 2023.

SOULS WAX FAIR, a Me Too literary thriller set against the beautiful backdrop of South Dakota, will be released in May 2022.

Kelly has two short story collections:
BANK HOLIDAY HURRICANE (Doire Press), longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and shortlisted for a Saboteur Award.
EVERYBODY'S HAPPY (Incubator Editions) was supported with a SIAP award.

THE BONES OF IT (Liberties Press; reissued by Incubator Editions) was the San Diego Book Re ...more

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Book Girl Summer

This summer I am putting the finishing touches to my Poetry MA dissertation, which is all about being a carer-parent. Even as I write the word ‘carer’ it is being highlighted as a non-word. That just about sums it up. It is written from experience of the last twenty years since I had my first child and her subsequent autism diagnosis at the age of two, and non-verbalism. 

I never write about my per

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The Sleeping Season (DI Har...
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The Bones of It
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