NEWS

The Observer Best New Novelists 2025

‘Weanling’, shortlisted for the Scratch Books A4 Competition, Winter 2024. Read here.

‘At Times I Hear You Calling’, awarded second prize in the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition 2024, judged by Camilla Grudova

‘Carrier’, published in The Stinging Fly Issue 51/Volume Two, Winter 2024-25

‘Horns’, published in Unquiet Slumbers: An Anthology of Folk Horror Tales, Nēpenthé Press, 2024

Canongate wins five-way auction for Irvin’s debut novel

‘To the Dogs’, published in Prototype 5

‘The Root of the Tongue is Buried Deep in the Earth’, shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Award 2023

‘Quiver’, an artist’s book collaboration with painter Georg Wilson

‘Goatskin’, shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize 2022