Maria Kenny

Maria won the 2020 Bray Literary Festival and the 2019 Maria Edgeworth Short Story Competition.
Her short stories and flash fiction have appeared in the journals Crannóg and Boyne Berries, also online internationally. She was longlisted for the WoW award 2016 and was shortlisted for the Kanturk Flash Fiction Competition2019. She also got a notable mention in Cúirt 2020 and was a semi-finalist in the LISP flash fiction competition 2020. She is also a featured writer for the online journal The Casket of Fictional Delights.

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  • The Client List

    Lena sat on the edge of the bed clutching the phone. She felt fine, a bit run down, but that was nothing unusual, she kept strange hours. She stood up and took a pen and paper from the top drawer of her dressing table. She examined her reflection in the mirror. She looked okay, a…

  • Bitterness

    Tonight I found out my husband is having an affair. Tonight all the pieces I had never seen, attached. I’m conscious that I should feel something. Jealousy. Anger. But nothing seems to penetrate. Wait; there is certain sympathy for the ‘other woman’. The object of her desire is at present downstairs sipping on his second…

  • Unbreakable Bonds

    This was the fourth time this week. Her finger slipped in and out of the ring in her pocket, her thumbnail running along the curve. She felt the familiar lurch in her stomach. Her eyes filled with tears blurring the scene in front of her. She moved to the bench beside the bus stop. Once…

  • Alone, naturally

    We moved in perfect union until our satisfying end. Your calloused fingertips caressed my face. I opened my mouth to speak but you placed a finger on my lips and shook your head. Instead I moved until my head lay on your shoulder. Gazing at the window, my legs rubbed against yours. I twisted under…