Fiona Sherlock
Dublin
@FionaSherlock
After rewriting the script I was given to narrate my Junior Infant nativity play, nothing other than writing was ever an option for me.
Fiction
With an attention span snapped by social media, my flash fiction piece ‘When Will Mammy Be Home?’ was published in Number Eleven magazine in 2013. Attention span restored by digital detox, ‘The Queen of the Land’ is my first novel, which I completed in January 2015. In March 2015 I was awarded the overall winner of the Wills Writing Awards for my short story ‘A Toddler and the Grand National’.
Influences
After a youth spent reeling from Morrissey to Ross O’Carroll Kelly and back again, I wrote considerable amounts of bad poetry in Abercrombie hoodies.
Hugely influenced by Nancy Mitford’s ‘Love in a Cold Climate’ and Julian Fellowes’ ‘Downton Abbey’ perhaps I am a West Brit trapped in the body of a Irish farmer’s daughter.
#Bragging
I have been nominated for a number of awards including:
- Image Blog Awards 2014, Shortlist, Best Newcomer
- Social and Personal Blogger of the Year Awards 2013, Finalist
- Oasis/RSVP Next Top Blogger Awards 2013, Finalist,
- Dublin City University Hybrid Awards 2011, Arts and Feature Writer of the Year
- Irish Blog Awards 2011, Irish Personal Blog of the Year
Public Relations
After writing for The Dubliner Magazine, Hot Press and The Sunday Independent, I worked as financial journalist for the Irish Daily Mail before moving into Public Relations at Heneghan PR.
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