GALLEY BEGGAR PRESS SHORT STORY PRIZE 2022/23
SONYA GILDEA is winner of the John McGahern Literature Award (2021) and the Cúirt International New Writer’s Award in Fiction (2015). She is recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary Award (2021); was selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions (2021/22); and was awarded an IWC National Mentorship Award (2022/23). Sonya has published in The Stinging Fly, Tolka, New Irish Writing, The Common, The Cormorant Broadsheet, The Maynard, Crannog, and The Irish Times; as well as the anthologies Romance Options (Dedalus Press); This is What You Mean to Me (Poetry Ireland); Hold Open the Door (UCD Press); Washing Windows Too (Arlen House). Sonya is recipient of a DLR Arts & Creative Ireland Literature Bursary Award (2021); a Tyrone Guthrie Centre Artist Residency (2021); and an IWC Cill Rialaig Writer’s Residency (2022). She graduated with an MA in Creative Writing, UCD. She is writing the short story collection The Switching Yard and the poetry collection 500 Seconds. She lives in Dublin, Ireland.