Members
The group currently has 12 members:
Niamh Bagnell
Niamh ran a 4-page newspaper for a few months in 1985: it cost 20p per issue and was a big hit with the neighbours. Her long-awaited return to writing came in mid-2007, when she joined Lucan Writers Group. The rest is history – apart from the bit to come, obviously.
Joan Byrne
Born in Dublin, Joan is the mother of five grown-up children and grandmother of two. She has always been a "scribbler" and started writing seriously five years ago after completing a Creative Writing course. In 2004 Joan read some of her poetry at the Fused Festival and in 2006 her prose piece 'Fettercairn' was included in the anthology County Lines: A Portrait of Life In South Dublin County. Joan's main creative influences are life experiences and her late father's love of words.
Colm Keegan
Colm lives in Clondalkin, Dublin. He writes poetry, short stories and screenplays. Since 2005 he has been shortlisted three times for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award for both poetry and Fiction. In 2008 he was shortlisted for the International Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition. He is currently working on his first novel and a collection of poems. He blogs online at Uiscebots blog.
Anne Marron
Joe McKiernan
Born in Walkinstown, Joe attended Crumlin CBS and in 1994 began a period of living and working abroad. He has worked in England, The Netherlands and Australia and travelled in Europe, Australia, North & South America and Africa. Joe is currently writing a novel Here's To The Primary Colours which tracks the experiences of three people who travel to Australia. He enjoys writing in several genres, including science fiction, fantasy, humour and drama.
David Mohan
David lives and works in Dublin and writes poetry. He has had poems featured in the 2008 and 2009 Oxfam calendars, and his poems have appeared in various publications including The Sunday Tribune, Revival, Abridged, The Stony Thursday Book and the 2008 poetry anthology Night and Day. He has won the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Award for 2009, came second in the 2009 Sean O'Faolain Short Story Award and was commended in the IYeats awards. He won the the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Poetry Award, as well as the 2008 overall New Irish Writing Award.
John Murphy
John mostly writes poetry, and has been published in Cyphers, Poetry Ireland Review, Pulsar and The Whitehouse Review among others. John reads regularly at the Whitehouse poetry events in Limerick.
Like loads of people here, he's been shortlisted for the Hennessy awards. He has written a book of short stories (publishers, form an orderly queue), and has completed (after 10 years of toil) his first poetry collection (but hasn't sent it anywhere yet). He hopes to go back to writing short fiction again at some point in the future.
Dympna Murray-Fennell
Dympna has dabbled in creative writing for many a year. Her work has been broadcast on Sunday Miscellany and has been published in both recent editions of the Sunday Miscellany anthology. Dympna's work also appears in County Lines: A Portrait of Life In South Dublin County and in that bastion of memoir writing, Ireland's Own.
Joan O'Flynn
Joan has lived in Lucan for the past thirty-nine years. In 2006, 'Love Affair with Lucan' was published in County Lines: A Portrait of Life In South Dublin County. Currently, Joan is working on a collection of short fiction together with a number of short stories for children, inspired by her own grandchildren. Joan has had fiction published in Ireland's Own and is a regular contributor to the Lucan Newsletter where she is a member of the editorial team.
Louise Phillips
Married with three children, Louise lives in Templeogue. She returned to writing a couple of years ago when she joined a writing class in Old Bawn Community School, Tallaght. Louise has written a number of short stories and poems, including 'Another Road', which formed part of the anthology County Lines: A Portrait of Life In South Dublin County, edited by Dermot Bolger.
Elizabeth Reid
Writing has been an important part of Elizabeth's life for many years. She has recently completed her first novel and started her second. The written word has always been her adviser and friend, her solace and delight.
Lisa Rushmere
Lisa lives in Lucan, having moved to Ireland from the UK in 2002. She has been writing on and off since her teens and joined the writers group in 2008 to take it to a new level...!
Tríona Walsh
Tríona has been writing since her teens and has been happily toiling over a novel for the past couple of years. She writes short stories for the instant gratification and to remind herself that she can actually finish something. Her husband is very much looking forward to the day her first novel is published and he can retire. Tríona tries not to disillusion him.
Tríona won the 2008 Jonathan Swift Short Story competition. She was recently shortlisted for the Malahide Library Short Story Competition.