Tuam teacher and writer in running for Hennessy Literary Award

A LOCAL teacher who is also studying in Oxford is among a small group of writers shortlisted for a coveted Hennessy Literary Award.

Majella Kelly from Togher, Tuam teaches English at St Colman's Secondary School in Claremorris and only took up writing in the past few years. Making the final cut in the competition is a big breakthrough and one that Majella says brings her work to a more mainstream audience.
The literary awards celebrate the best of new Irish writing and are described as the Booker Prize for a new generation of writers.
Majella has been shortlisted in the Emerging Poetry category for two of her poems, Lichenology and Funeral.

The winner of the First Fiction, Emerging Fiction and Emerging Poetry categories, as well as the overall Hennessy New Irish Writer 2018 will be announced in Dublin tonight (Wednesday).

Read more in this week's edition of The Tuam Herald