Alan Murrin

Alan Murrin is an Irish fiction writer. His debut novel, The Coast Road, will be published in May 2024 by Bloomsbury (UK) and June 2024 by Harper Collins (US). The book will also be published in Germany (DTV), Italy (Mondadori), and France (Calmann-Lévy). The Coast Road was shortlisted for the Peters Fraser Dunlop Queer Fiction Prize and was long-listed for the Caledonia New Novel Award 2022. In 2021 he was the winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for his short story “The Wake”, which went on to be shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards and was published in the collection Waves of Change (Fresher Publishing, Bournemouth 2021). In 2023 he was awarded an Irish Arts Council Next Generation Award. He is a graduate of the prose fiction masters at the University of East Anglia. His work was featured as part of the New Irish Writing series in the Irish Independent. His fiction has appeared in The Cardiff Review, and has been anthologised in Literally Speaking Berlin (2019), The Sacred Exists to be Found (Aleph Press, London 2019) and the UEA Prose Fiction Anthology (2017). His work has been short-listed for the Irish Arts and Writers Festival short story prize, the New Irish Writing in Germany Prize, and he was long-listed for the 2021 University of Essex International short story prize. He writes for The Irish Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator. His writing on art and photography has appeared in Art Review and The White Review.