Awards & Readings

Awards

• 2023 Brigid 1500 Arts and Creativity Grant (Kildare County Council)
• 2022 Arts Act Grant (Kildare County Council)
• 2021 Creative Ireland Bursary Award (Kildare County Council)
• 2018 Arts Act Grant (Kildare County Council)
• 2016/2017 Community Writer in Residence at the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre in conjunction with The Irish Writers’ Centre and Dublin City Council
• 2017 Fiction placed second in the Dromineer International Literary Festival Flash Fiction Competition
• 2016 Flash fiction long-listed in the Fish Flash Fiction Competition
• 2016 Short story long-listed in the Bath Short Story Award
• 2015 Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary Award: Emerging Writers (Kildare County Council)
• 2015 Arts Act Grant (Kildare County Council)
• 2013 Travel Grant to perform work (Culture Ireland)
• 2012 Short story placed third in the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Competition
• 2012 Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Bursary Award (Kildare County Council)

Public Readings and Appearances

Shauna has read from her work and/or facilitated workshops and masterclasses at  events both sides of the Atlantic including:

• Strokestown International Poetry Festival (2022, Roscommon)
• The Dromineer Literary Festival (2017, Tipperary)
• The Write Time Festival (2017 and 2018, Dublin)
• The Red Line Book Festival (2013, Dublin)
• London Irish Centre (2013, London, UK)
• The West Cork Literary Festival (2012, Cork)
• Chapter Arts Centre (2012, Cardiff, UK)
• Vanderbilt University (2010, Nashville, USA)
• AWP (2010, Denver, USA)

A Selection of Recorded Readings

• Shauna reads for The Holding Cell from her home during the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic – a YouTube link
• Shauna reads from Happiness Comes from Nowhere in Kenny’s Bookshop, Galway
• Actor Pat Laffan reads Shauna’s story ‘Roses’ as part of Kildare County Council Literature Programme 2015 Stories for the Ear
• Shauna reads ‘Remains’ for the Virtual Reading Room at the Olentangy Review (Summer 2013).

A Selection of Interviews with Shauna

• Niamh Boyce discusses juggling life and writing
• Mel Ulm discusses Irishness, loneliness and suicide
• Nuala Ní Chonchúir discusses work, motherhood and the creative life
• Vanessa Gebbie discusses structure, narrative and characterisation and asks Shauna if she could have a painting of one scene from the novel, which would she choose?