Award-winning SF Author David Murphy reading from his Maurice Walsh award-winning short story "Lost Notes" and an extract from my American-published science fiction novella "Arkon Chronicles".

Join us at the Centre for Creative Practices to meet this exiting author of SF literature in Ireland.

Cork-born David Murphy has lived north of Dublin for the past thirty years. His latest novella Bird of Prey is due for publication in the USA later in 2010. A previous novella Arkon Chronicles appeared in paperback from Silver Lake Publishing (a small press) in 2003. His novel Longevity City was published in hardback by Five Star, and well received, in 2005. His award-winning short fiction has been published and translated worldwide, including two chapbooks and a short story collection brought out in 2004. The title story of that collection, Lost Notes, won the inaugural Maurice Walsh Award for short stories.

He has given readings and talks (on the history of ‘imaginative’ fiction in the Irish tradition) at bookshops, writers’ centres, arts festivals and other events, including the Frank O’Connor Festival in Cork, Greystones & Waterford Arts Festivals, Eurocon in Copenhagen, Worldcon in Montreal and the Chapter’s Lunchtime Series. He is part of the group that brings you Albedo One magazine, Aeon Press and the Aeon Award.