Shane Tivenan’s work has been published in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, The Bridport Prize Anthology 2023, and elsewhere. In 2020, he won the RTÉ Short Story Award in honour of Francis MacManus for his story about Violet Gibson, the Irish woman who shot Mussolini in the nose.

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