Publications

Selection of Recent Short Fiction Publications

• Story ‘Thirty-Five-A-Night’ in Crannóg Magazine (Issue 47, Spring 2018)
• Flash fiction ‘Rats’ in The Lampeter Review (Issue 15, Winter 2017)
• Flash fiction ‘Confined’ in Domineer International Literary Festival (2017)
• Prose ‘The Passions of Sophie Byrant’ Number Eleven Magazine (Issue Ten, Summer 2017)
• Story ‘Plum Marker’ Crannóg Magazine (Issue 44, Spring 2017)
• Short Story in A New Ulster (Issue 48)
• Flash fiction ‘Mermaid’ Gargoyle Magazine (Issue 66)
• ‘Miraculous’ The Lonely Crowd (Winter, Issue 3)

Selection of Non-Fiction Writing

• A reflection on the writing life Because I do on Writing.ie
• On Collaboration – with artist Margo McNulty – in The Lonely Crowd
• Cultural highlight of 2015 in Wales Arts Review
• “Painting Pictures and Telling Tales:The Scholarly and Popular Portrayal of Patrick Pearse 1916- 1927 in Diarmaid Ferriter and Susannah Riordan (Eds) Years of Turbulence (Dublin, UCD Press, 2015)
• Ireland: Chapter on creative and academic writing ‘Writing, Control and Letting it Flow’ in Ryan, Anne and Walsh, Tony (Eds) Writing Your Thesis: A Guide for Postgraduate Students (Maynooth, MACE Press: 2015)
• On Desmond Hogan ‘The Art of Swimming in Winter’ Thresholds, UK

Novels

Extract from new novel When The October Wind Comes in Reading The Future (Arlen House: Dublin, 2017)

You can order Happiness Comes from Nowhere (Ward Wood: London, 2012) direct from my publishers, from your local bookshop, from your local library and from larger on-line sites.

Some Praise for Happiness Comes from Nowhere

• ‘…a journey of discovery in this thoroughly enjoyable and refreshingly challenging debut novel.’ Sunday Independent
• ‘Fresh and original…Shauna Gilligan is a name to watch.’The Irish Examiner
• ‘A truly impressive debut from a writer of exceptional talent.’ Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
• ‘Gilligan’s writing has something of the sensitivity and resonant sadness of William Trevor at his best’ Ryan Licata

A Selection of Press Reviews of Happiness Comes from Nowhere

• Barbara Clinton in The Sunday Independent
• Maria C McCarthy selects Happiness Comes from Nowhere as one of her books of 2012 in The Guardian
• Sheenagh Pugh in The Guardian
• Sue Leonard in The Irish Examiner
• The Colverstone Review (issue 1, review by Ryan Licata)
• QuenchCardiff’s fortnightly student magazine

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