Unfortunately, Bret Anthony Johnston is unable to attend the Cork International Short Story Festival as previously advertised. However, we are happy to say that John Patrick McHugh will now be reading alongside Marie-Helene Bertino on 16th October at 9.00pm in the Cork Arts Theatre.
John Patrick McHugh is from Galway. His work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, Banshee, The Tangerine, Tolka and Granta and been broadcast on BBC Radio3. He is the Fiction Editor for Banshee. He is the author of a collection of short stories, Pure Gold (4th Estate, 2021), and a novel, Fun and Games (4th Estate, 2025), which was shortlisted for Irish Book of the Year 2025, selected as an Observer Best Debut Novel, and chosen as a Book of the Year in The Irish Times, Vogue, The iPaper and the Observer.