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Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
She also has Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and is disabled and chronically ill; owing to this the majority of her writing is dictated.
Lauren is a Next Generation Artist in Literature with the Arts Council of Ireland. Her stories are published internationally. Credits include: Overland, Award Winning Australian Writing, Lighthouse, gorse, No Alibis, The Cormorant and 3:AM.
She worked for many years as a university teacher in Ireland, the UK and Australia. Similarly, she is an experienced writing mentor and editor, creative and academic, with a passion for facilitating learning and disseminating knowledge.
Her story—’I Don’t’—is published in The Art of The Glimpse, 100 Irish Short Stories selected by Sinéad Gleeson. She won The Los Angeles Review 2021 Literary Award in Creative Non-Fiction with ‘Mammy Mary Says‘.
Lauren’s debut short story collection Polluted Sex is out now with Influx Press.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
She also has Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and is disabled and chronically ill; owing to this the majority of her writing is dictated.
Lauren is a Next Generation Artist in Literature with the Arts Council of Ireland. Her stories are published internationally. Credits include: Overland, Award Winning Australian Writing, Lighthouse, gorse, No Alibis, The Cormorant and 3:AM.
She worked for many years as a university teacher in Ireland, the UK and Australia. Similarly, she is an experienced writing mentor and editor, creative and academic, with a passion for facilitating learning and disseminating knowledge.
Her story—’I Don’t’—is published in The Art of The Glimpse, 100 Irish Short Stories selected by Sinéad Gleeson. She won The Los Angeles Review 2021 Literary Award in Creative Non-Fiction with ‘Mammy Mary Says‘.
Lauren’s debut short story collection Polluted Sex is out now with Influx Press.
Author: Lauren Foley
Genre: Literary Fiction
A fractious intimate relationship develops between an Irish woman, an English man, and her girlfriend. Two ungendered characters contest the same female body. A deserted wife takes a lover but remains unsatisfied. Lauren Foley’s debut collection of dramatic short stories, Polluted Sex, is fearless in its depiction of women’s bodies and sexuality, offering an unflinching window into Irish girl and womanhood.
“Polluted Sex alternately challenges, interests, confuses, humours, shocks, and engages its reader. What art ought to do.”
- The Irish Independent“Formally experimental – mini plays, time-stamped fragments, prose-as-prayer – in work that’s political, comic and genuinely original.”
- Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations“A brave and boisterous new voice in Irish fiction.”
- June Caldwell“Religion, desire and sin are laid bare and made strange in Foley’s succulent language that drips from the page like an overripe fruit, sweet but spoiling at the same time.”
- Books Ireland
Author: Lauren Foley
Genre: Fiction
An anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations, including Lauren Foley.
There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this.
The Art of the Glimpse is a radical revision of the canon of the Irish story, uniting classic works with neglected writers and marginalised voices – women, LGBT writers, Traveller folk-tales, neglected 19th-century authors and the first wave of ‘new Irish’ writers from all over the world now making a life in Ireland. Sinéad Gleeson brings together stories that range from the most sublime realism to the downright bizarre and transgressive, some from established literary figures and some that have not yet been published in book form.
The collection draws on a tremendous spectrum of experience: the story of a prank come good by Bram Stoker; Sally Rooney on the love languages of the new generation; Donal Ryan on the pains of ageing; Edna O’Brien on the things we betray for love; James Joyce on a young woman torn between the familiar burdens and oppression of her home and the dangerous lure of romance and escape; and the internal monologue of a woman in a coma by Marian Keyes. Here too are vivid and less familiar stories by Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, Oein De Bharduin, Blindboy Boatclub and Melatu Uche Okorie.
Sinead Gleeson’s anthology is a marvellous representation of a rich literary tradition renewing itself in the 21st century.