Bayveen O'Connell

Writer

Bayveen is inspired by dark, macabre ideas, mythology and voices silenced by history.

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Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods is a creative non-fiction collection of poems and prose themed around surviving Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in Ireland the 1980s, and its impact on Bayveen's life in the aftermath. Bayveen gives voice to her infant, teenage, and adult selves, processing the physical and psychological trauma stage by stage. Always direct and honest, darkly funny at times, but never pity-seeking.

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Life Blood, Ghost Breath

Life Blood, Ghost Breath is a collection of Flash Fiction on themes of life, death, daughters, and love. It's dark and bitter sweet, but not without tiny sparks of hope. Many of the stories are inspired by works of art, and historical events. Peter Pan featured in the National Flash Fiction Anthology 2020, Lyrics for a Life at Sea is a prize-winning piece, and many other pieces in the volume have been nominated for Best Mircofiction and the Pushcart prize. Bayveen's flash will take you gravedigging, to a ritual sacrifice, seeking the voice of selective mute teenage daughter, on an adventure in Florence, and to a quiet moment in Dublin's Botanic Gardens amongst other times of places.

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About

Bayveen O'Connell, originally from Sligo, is a Dublin-based writer whose fiction and creative nonfiction pieces have been published online and in print anthologies since 2017.She won 3rd prize in the Janus Literary Spring Story Anthology Competition 2021, and more recently, a story of hers was Highly Commended in The Allingham Arts Festival Flash Fiction Competition 2023.Her flash fiction pieces have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction awards.Since 2018, Bayveen has facilitated regular generative and skills-based writing workshops both in person and online. She is also available for feedback and writing advice.She is a member of the Bics 'n Brunch writing group which meets monthly in Kevin St. Library, Dublin.Contact:
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