Aingeala Flannery is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and writer. Her critically acclaimed debut The Amusements was published by Penguin Sandycove in 2022. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year at Listowel Writers’ Week and the John McGahern Prize. Aingeala is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing at UCD. In 2019, her short story Visiting Hours won the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize. Her work has been broadcast on RTÉ as part of the Radio One Short Story Competition and on Sunday Miscellany. Aingeala was awarded Literature Bursaries by the Arts Council of Ireland in 2020 and 2021.  She is the current Arts Council Writer in Residence at Dublin City University.

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