Liza Costello
writing in Dublin, Ireland
- Joint runner up, 2015 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
- Winner, 2011 Dromineer Literary Festival Poetry Competition (adj. Dermot Healy)
- Writing published in The Interpreter's House; The Stinging Fly; The Saturday Independent; Crannog Magazine; Confrontation Magazine; LITRO Magazine; Mslexia (Ed. Christina Paterson); Southword (print edition); and other journals.
- Writing broadcast on RTE Radio 1: Sunday Miscellany; Francis MacManus programme; and A Living Word.
- Novella, 'Retreat', published under Amazon's Kindle Singles programme, UK (Ed. Andrew Rosenheim).
- Short-listed, Francis MacManus Short Story Award 2009
- Short-listed, Sean O'Faolain Short Story Award 2008