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Tracy Fahey

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Tracy Fahey is an award-winning Irish author of six books. Her collection 'I Spit Myself Out' won the 2025 Rubery International Book Award, and her novella 'What Happens At The End' was awarded the 2024 Paul Cave Prize for Literature. Fahey has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017, 2022, and 2024, and shortlisted for the 2024 London Independent Story Prize. She was granted a Saari Fellowship for 2023 by the Kone Foundation. Her short fiction is published in fifty Irish, US and UK anthologies and she has been awarded residencies in Ireland, Scotland, Finland and Greece. She holds a PhD on the Gothic and lectures in creative writing, folk horror and the Gothic at the Limerick School of Art and Design, TUS.

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Tracy Fahey I get so little time to write, I don't usually suffer from writer's block - because I've been waiting eagerly for the chance to scribble. On the rare …moreI get so little time to write, I don't usually suffer from writer's block - because I've been waiting eagerly for the chance to scribble. On the rare occasions I do, I tend to drop the story in question, and leave it to lie fallow. I've learned not to force it. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't (but more often than not, it does). At the moment I'm working on a story I let go of about a year and a half ago - I've suddenly realised how to reanimate it.(less)
Tracy Fahey Writing and the creative flush of happiness that goes with it. A close second is the joy of being published.
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Sweet Smell of Success: Winning the Rubery International Book Award 2025

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“We're born alone. We spend our lives trying to connect outside ourselves. Loneliness terrifies us; we define our very selves in relation to others. We reach out constantly. We need to feel we matter. We fall in love--or tell ourselves we do--to feel that intimate connection. We grow babies inside ourselves to fill that need. So much of what we do is an attempt to stave off the stark isolation of being ourselves in our own bodies.”
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“And last of all, a kiss goodbye. I touch my lips to her smooth, cold forehead. ‘Goodbye and good luck.’ I love the pleasant dead.”
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“I've finally stopped running away from myself. And now I can't find my way back.”
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