Discipline: Literature – fiction

Siobhán Mannion

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Dublin, IRELAND
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Siobhán Mannion is an Irish writer and radio producer. Her stories and essays have appeared in international publications including Granta, Winter Papers, Banshee, Eighteen Bridges, Stand, The Moth, The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers and Galway Stories: 2020. She has written drama, fiction and non-fiction pieces for radio and podcast, and her work has appeared in translation.

As well as a MacDowell fellowship, her honours include an Irish Arts Council Literature Bursary, two Hennessy Awards and two New York Festivals Radio Awards. She lives in Dublin, where she worked for many years in RTÉ, Ireland’s national broadcaster, and is now completing a collection of stories, which she worked on while at MacDowell in 2013.

Studios

Banks

Siobhán Mannion worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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