Lauren Foley

Books

• Polluted Sex – Influx Press via Asterism Books, 2025 (North American distribution)
• Polluted Sex – MidnightSun Publishing, 2023 (AUS/NZ)
• Polluted Sex – Influx Press, 2022 (UK/IRL)

Book Awards

• Polluted Sex shortlisted for The Barbellion Prize

Publications

• Featured Writer & Artist – Icarus Magazine, Trinity College Dublin, Volume 75, No. 1, Spring 2025, eds Cat Grogan and Louise Norris – In print & online
• ‘Hut’ – AGNI, 2024, eds Mary O’Donoghue and Shuchi Saraswat – Online
• ‘The First Person Possessive Or Proper Nouns Are Lost To The Yesterdays We All Dreamt Of Anyway’ – gorse, Issue 11, ed Susan Tomaselli, 2023 – In print

• ‘Penitential Acts’ – Exacting Clam Magazine, Number 8, ed Guillermo Stitch, Spring 2023 – In print & online
• ‘XOXO’ with Stephanie Ní Thiarnaigh – Splonk, Issue 8, 2022 – Online
• ‘Polluted Sex’ – Title Story – 3:AM Magazine, April 2022 – Online

• ‘for those of us who learned to speak in therapy’ – Bealtaine, Issue 2, ed Seán Flynn, 2022 – In print & Online
• ‘Mammy Mary Says’ – The Los Angeles Review, Spring 2022 – In print & online

• ‘Maiden/Mother/Crone’ series [images] – Cauldron Anthology, Mother Issue, ed Abigail Eckstine, 2022 – Online

• ‘Pinna’ – The Cormorant Broadsheet, Issue 6, ed Niamh Mac Cabe, 2021 – In print & online
• ‘Woman on Blue’ [image] – Catatonic Daughters Literary Magazine, Issue 1, ed Ríbh Brownlee – Online
• ‘I Don’t’ – The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories, Head of Zeus, ed Sinéad Gleeson, 2020 – In print
• Lockdown Spiro-[graph] 1 – Pendemic, 10th of August, 2020 – Online
• ‘K-K-K’ – Spontaneity, Issue 15, 2019 – Online
• ‘Molly & Jack at the Seaside’ – No Alibis Press, ed Emma Warnock, 2019 – In print
• ‘Stains of a Foreign Truth’ – Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, Vol 3, 2018 – In print
• ‘MTWTFSS’ – Peregrine Literary Journal, Fall, 2018 – In print
• ‘Hills like Hemingway’s’ – Irish Times Books, 25th of May, 2018 – Online
• ‘Joni Mitchell Nudes’ – Lighthouse Literary Journal, Issue 17, 2018 – In print
• ‘You Try Not To’ – Spontaneity, Issue 13, 2017 – Online
• ‘This One Time …’ – Crush Anthology, MidnightSun Publishing, 2017 – In print
• ‘Hot Rocks’ – Inkrocí/Irish Writer’s Centre, Magazine of Literatures, N. 23, March/April, 2017 – In print and online
  • In English
  • Italian translation
• ‘417-BVB-820’ – Geometry – Issue 1 April/May, 2017 – In print and online
• ‘Phonology’ – Lighthouse Literary Journal, Issue 13, 2016 – In print
• ‘K-K-K’ – Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year, 2016 – @writing.ie – Online
• ‘Hot Rocks’ – Hennessy New Irish Writing, The Irish Times, 2016 – In print and online
• ‘K-K-K’ – Award Winning Australian Writing, Melbourne Books 2016 – In print
• ‘The 8th’ – feministire.com, 2016 – Online
• ‘K-K-K’ – Overland Journal, 222, Autumn 2016 – In print and online
• ‘Growing Up Baby’ – Kensington & Norwood Writers’ Group, 2016 – Writers on Parade, Vol. 8 – In print
• ‘Growing Up Baby’ – Campbelltown Literary Awards, 2014 – Online
• ‘Being Themselves’– Kensington & Norwood Writers’ Group, 2014 – Writers on Parade, Vol. 7 – In print
• ‘Squiggly Arse Crack’ – Margaret River Press 2014 – The Trouble with Flying and Other Stories – In print

Grants

• 2023 – Grant, Australian Short Story Festival – Culture Ireland
• 2021-2 – Literature Bursary, English Language – Arts Council of Ireland
• 2021 – Agility Award, Arts Project Award – Arts Council of Ireland
• 2020 – Fingal Artist’s Support Scheme – Fingal County Council
• 2018-19 – Next Generation Award (Literature) – Arts Council of Ireland
• 2018 – Fingal Artist’s Support Scheme – Fingal County Council

Fellowships

• 2020 Varuna Residential Writer’s Fellowship – Eleanor Dark Foundation, New South Wales           [taken 2023 due to Covid-19]

• 2016 Varuna Residential Writer’s Fellowship – Eleanor Dark Foundation, New South Wales

Residencies

• 2019 Next Generation Residency – Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerig
• 2018 Cill Rialaig Residency – The Cill Rialaig Project
• 2018 Artist Residency – Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerig

Writing Awards

2022

• takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize – ‘NB feral in forests’ – Longlisted

2021

• The Los Angeles Review Creative Nonfiction Prize – ‘Mammy Mary Says’ – First Place

2020

• Red Line Poetry Festival – ‘Ciúnas’ – Shortlisted

2018

• Bath Flash Fiction Award (October) – ‘Stains of A Foreign Truth’ – Longlisted
• The Pushcart Prize  – ‘417-BVB-820’ – Nominee

2017

• Johnathan Swift Creative Writing Awards – ‘Mammy Mary Says’ – Commended
• Francis Ledwidge Creative Writing Award – ‘Polluted Sex’ – Shortlisted
• Hennessy New Irish Writing – ‘Hot Rocks’ – Shortlisted

2016

• @Writing.ie Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year – ‘K-K-K’ – Shortlisted
• Over the Edge New Writer of the Year – ‘I Don’t’ – Highly Commended
• Fish Flash Fiction Prize – ‘The 8th’ – Shortlisted
• Fish Flash Fiction Prize – ‘New Lightness’ – Longlisted
• Fish Short Memoir Prize – ‘You Try Not To’ – Longlisted

2015

• Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize – ‘K-K-K’ – First Place
• Fish Short Story Prize – ‘Molly & Jack at the Seaside’ – Shortlisted
• UCC Carried in Waves Short Story Competition – ‘Prayer for Himself’ – Longlisted
• Overland Story Wine Prize – ‘417-BVB-820’ – Shortlisted
• Over the Edge New Writer of the Year – ‘Molly & Jack at the Seaside’ – Shortlisted
• Fish Short Memoir – ‘Salad Dressing’ – Longlisted

2014

• Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction – ‘This One Time …’ – Highly Commended
• Over the Edge New Writer of the Year – ‘Salad Dressing’ – Longlisted
• Campbelltown Literary Awards – ‘Growing Up Baby’ – Commendation
• Margaret River Short Story Competition – ‘Squiggly Arse Crack’ – Shortlisted