Conor Creighton's Blog

After many, many years of asking the questions I get interviewed by the magazine I used to work for. They asked me about Saint Frank and I told them about the Alabama 3, Irish courthouses and tired mothers.

John Banville’s on my shoulder.

Broadsheet is responsible for wasting more of my time than any other website. Whenever I’m overly homesick, I’ll spend a few hours clicking through and be freed of the need to buy a flight home to Ireland. And this morning, they gave Saint Frank a plug.

  Congratulations I’m glad for you But nobody Unless they win a prize Makes dosh from prose Best Mc cabe

You can self publish and order your book online, where it’s probably made in some other country, and then sit back and wait for the delivery. Or you can find a small publisher with a risograph. You can cut a deal whereby you help out. You can stay up night after night collating pages, heaving […]

This text comes from a bundle of old diaries my girlfriend found when she was moving out of her apartment. They were under her sink in a plastic shopping bag. She’s nosey, and it was her place after all, so she had to look inside. Even though they were badly damaged we could still make […]

This is a piece I did for a new-ish Dublin magazine called daydreamer. This was their love issue and they asked me to write something about my take on love in that town. Anne Atkins took the picture.     Dublin loves you It’s just bad at showing its feelings   On cold nights when […]

Lazlo is a new magazine. They asked me to write a piece for them that would tie into the theme of ‘dwelling’. I wrote an anti-dwelling piece about a group of homeless guys, and one in particular who was keeping a diary.   This text comes from a bundle of old diaries my girlfriend found […]

  I’m publishing a new magazine. It’s called Dear John – a magazine for men written by women. It’s been a lot of fun to make and we hope to bring out two issues a year: the summer collection and the winter collection. What you see beneath the writing is our winter collection. Fiction, illustration, […]

I did some film work for MovemberTV again this year. This was my favourite piece.