Helena Farrell is a writer based in West Cork, Ireland, where she lives with her husband and cats. She works as a healthcare teacher in adult education after a 20-year career as a nurse. She is the founder of the Millbrook Writers Group in Bandon.
Helena’s work is inspired by the landscape, her love of sea and nature. The inner rhythms of rural life in the valley she lives, very much informs her work, as does preserving traditions/stories of an older generation. An avid reader, Helena supports and enjoys Irish writers, counting Michael Harding, Kevin Barry, Donal Ryan and John McGahern as her favorite authors.
Helena is currently working on her first collection of short stories.
Writers Biography
Achievements
- Recipient of Writing Mentorship from Munster Literature Centre 2021
Winner of
- Quiet Man Maurice Walsh Award 2020 for the short story ‘The Unaccounted Hours’
- Sligo Feis Cheoil Short Story Competition 2019 for short story ‘Little Star’
- ‘Words by Water’ Kinsale Literary Festival Short Story Competition 2018,
- Write by the Sea Literary Festival Short Story Competition 2018
Shortlisted
- Third Prize Creative Bandon & Cork County Council 2021
- Runner up in Over The Edge 2019
- Kanturk Arts Festival Flash Fiction Competition 2019
- Write by the Sea ‘Memoir’ 2018
Published
Small Leaf Press Anthology July 2021 https://www.smallleafpress.co.uk/shop/
The Blue Nib Online ‘Tangled Knots’
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