Lauren Foley
BIO
Lauren Foley (she/her) is Irish/Australian and a Next Generation Artist in Literature with the Arts Council of Ireland. Lauren is bisexual, chronically ill and disabled. She has a plethora of health issues including: Lupus (SLE), endometriosis and mental illness. The majority of her writing is dictated.
Lauren won the inaugural Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and The Los Angeles Review, Creative Nonfiction Award. Her work has been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards and is published in the critically acclaimed The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories selected by Sinéad Gleeson.
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. She is an Editorial Assistant with Overland and a Guest Editor with The Masters Review.
Polluted Sex—Lauren’s debut short story collection—is published by Influx Press in the UK and Ireland and is forthcoming from MidnightSun Publishing in Australia and New Zealand, 2023.
Books
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Polluted Sex – Influx Press, 2022
Publications
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‘The First Person Possessive Or Proper Nouns Are Lost To The Yesterdays We All Dreamt Of Anyway’ – gorse, Issue 11, 2022 – In print [forthcoming]
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‘XOXO’ with Stephanie Ní Thiarnaigh – Splonk, Issue 8, 2022 – Online
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‘Polluted Sex’ – Title Story – 3:AM Magazine, April 2022 – Online
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‘for those of us who learned to speak in therapy’ – Bealtaine, Issue 2, ed Seán Flynn, 2022 – In print & Online
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‘Mammy Mary Says’ – The Los Angeles Review, Spring 2022 – In print & online
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‘Maiden/Mother/Crone’ series [images] – Cauldron Anthology, Mother Issue, ed Abigail Eckstine, 2022 – Online
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‘Pinna’ – The Cormorant Broadsheet, Issue 6, ed Niamh Mac Cabe, 2021 – In print & online
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‘Woman on Blue’ [image] – Catatonic Daughters Literary Magazine, Issue 1, ed Ríbh Brownlee – Online
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‘I Don’t’ – The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories, Head of Zeus, ed Sinéad Gleeson, 2020 – In print
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Lockdown Spiro-[graph] 1 – Pendemic, 10th of August, 2020 – Online
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‘K-K-K’ – Spontaneity, Issue 15, 2019 – Online
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‘Molly & Jack at the Seaside’ – No Alibis Press, ed Emma Warnock, 2019 – In print
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‘Stains of a Foreign Truth’ – Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, Vol 3, 2018 – In print
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‘MTWTFSS’ – Peregrine Literary Journal, Fall, 2018 – In print
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‘Hills like Hemingway’s’ – Irish Times Books, 25th of May, 2018 – Online
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‘Joni Mitchell Nudes’ – Lighthouse Literary Journal, Issue 17, 2018 – In print
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‘You Try Not To’ – Spontaneity, Issue 13, 2017 – Online
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‘This One Time …’ – Crush Anthology, MidnightSun Publishing, 2017 – In print
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‘Hot Rocks’ – Inkrocí/Irish Writer’s Centre, Magazine of Literatures, N. 23, March/April, 2017 – In print and online
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‘417-BVB-820’ – Geometry – Issue 1 April/May, 2017 – In print and online
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‘Phonology’ – Lighthouse Literary Journal, Issue 13, 2016 – In print
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‘K-K-K’ – Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year, 2016 – @writing.ie – Online
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‘Hot Rocks’ – Hennessy New Irish Writing, The Irish Times, 2016 – In print and online
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‘K-K-K’ – Award Winning Australian Writing, Melbourne Books 2016 – In print
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‘The 8th’ – feministire.com, 2016 – Online
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‘K-K-K’ – Overland Journal, 222, Autumn 2016 – In print and online
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‘Growing Up Baby’ – Kensington & Norwood Writers’ Group, 2016 – Writers on Parade, Vol. 8 – In print
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‘Growing Up Baby’ – Campbelltown Literary Awards, 2014 – Online
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‘Being Themselves’– Kensington & Norwood Writers’ Group, 2014 – Writers on Parade, Vol. 7 – In print
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‘Squiggly Arse Crack’ – Margaret River Press 2014 – The Trouble with Flying and Other Stories – In print