Cathy Sweeney

Cathy Sweeney is a short story writer and novelist and TBG+S Commissioned Writer 2026.

Cathy Sweeney is a short story writer and novelist. Her fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review and Granta, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2020, her collection of short stories, Modern Times, was published by The Stinging Fly Press, Dublin, and by W&N, London. Her debut novel Breakdown was published by W&N in January 2024.

In 2026, she works on a novel based on the months Oscar Wilde spent in Naples following his release from prison in 1897.

Written responses

'The Nature of Things' by Cathy Sweeney in response to 'Lunula' by Lucy Stein (pdf)

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