Gráinne Murphy

Reader, writer, rain fan. Greener (2024), Winter People (2022), The Ghostlights (2021) Where the Edge Is (2020) (all @Legend_Times_)

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

Helen, Annie & Laura drifted apart at 18 & are now drawn back together, but can old friends ever let us become new people?
If stories of friendship & regret, with added family tangles, are your thing, you can preorder #Greener from your local bookshop or online 🫶
Out 18/4/24 🍃

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

@amymariacoleman @ItsWalterEgo Thanks, Amy! Always happy to see this one get a mention.
Love the whole thread too - it really is astonishing how nothing is still known about him.

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

@farhanashaikh That’s so lovely to hear, thank you 💛

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

Delighted and grateful to be on the shortlist for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize for Good Woman Yourself, a story about the humour and anger in trying to control an uncontrollable world 🤗

#RSL #VSPritchettShortStoryPrize #ALCSAwards

[Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature]

We're delighted to reveal the 2025 shortlist for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, supported by ALCS!

Congratulations to Lisa Blower, Christian Brinsden, Funmi Fetto, Edward Hogan, Gráinne Murphy and Rebecca Trick-Walker for this achievement.

#ALCSAwards #RSL #VSPritchett

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

@franhill123 @womenwritersnet Thanks a mill, Fran!
In addition to your Cuckoo in the Nest, I’ll add Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour, Catherine Newman’s Sandwich, and Maggie O’Farrell’s Instructions for a Heatwave 💛

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

@BKinsale66576 Thank you lovely Bookstór team 💛

[TheBookSocial @TheBookSocial]

We are so proud of @GraMurphy who is shortlisted for the @RSLiterature The V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2025! Her recent novel GREENER is out now https://t.co/n8w0PGRSS6 #books #booktwitter #publishing

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@NiamhMacCabe Thanks Niamh x

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@fionaemckayryan @RSLiterature Congrats to you too 🥂

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

Delighted that Good Woman Yourself is longlisted for the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2025 🤗
Sylvanian Families, emotional labour, and Santa’s grave… I am very fond of this one and glad to see it here.
Thanks @RSLiterature and congrats to everyone on the longlist 🫶

[Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature]

Let's hear it for our 2025 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize longlist! 👏

Congratulations to our 13 writers, selected by judges Tash Aw, Tania Hershman and Fiona Mozley.

Stay tuned for our shortlist announcement on 27 January @ALCS_UK #ALCSAwards #RSL #VSPritchett

[ALCS @ALCS_UK]

Congratulations to the 13 storytellers who have made the 2025 longlist for the @RSLiterature V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, which will be presented at the #ALCSAwards for the 2nd year running 📚

Read more: https://t.co/miD5GTy0cK

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

@annecater Hope you have an abundance of blankets and tea. Feel better soon x

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

@BexBookaholic @franhill123 Completely agree! Absolutely loved it too - higher stakes & deeper feelings, all with such heart and humour 💛

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@franhill123 Thanks so much, Fran!
Shawn’s Friday Reads are always time well spent 😊

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Tremendous excitement here at #CNA HQ as we prepare for tomorrow's @caledoniaaward longlist announcement!! We can't wait to share it with you 📚📚📚!! @AliceLutyens @iamciarafinan #writingcommunity

[An Post Irish Book Awards @IrishBookAward]

The WINNER of the New Irish Writing Best Short Story in association with the @Independent_ie is...

Kathleen Macadam for “Valentine's Day”

#APIBA #ReadersWanted #StoriesMakeUs

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

@JackieLynam @shawnmooney @YouTube Thanks, Jackie 💛

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

@aelfsige22 That's lovely to hear, Patricia! Glad you enjoyed it too😊

[Gráinne Murphy @GraMurphy]

Thoroughly enjoyable chat with Shawn about Greener & some books I've loved recently, via optimism, fear, friendship, and meandering. This and more of Shawn's excellent Friday reads series available at https://t.co/UI9J7eKfWc
I'm off to pick up The Deluge 🤩
#Greener #FridayReads

[Shawn Breathes Books @shawnmooney]

Friday Reads: My book of the year - and other lovely bookish topics https://t.co/CK9meHDM5w via @YouTube

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@shawnmooney @YouTube Thanks a million for the invitation and the lively chat, Shawn - lovely bookish topics indeed 💛

[Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize @LCFictionPrize]

There is still time to register for tonight's FREE event at 6:30pm BT!
Join the wonderful @WMEBooksUK team and find out what makes a submission stand out ✒️
https://t.co/7wuxqZIfiu