Shane Tivenan from Athlone, County Roscommon, was recently named as the winner of the 2024 John McGahern Award for Literature during this year’s Iron Mountain Literature Festival.
The Roscommon author is already an award-winning writer, notably having won the RTÉ Short Story Competition in 2020.
Writers Kevin Barry, Neil Jordan, Nelofer Pazira-Fisk, and poet Mary O’Malley were among the guests at this year’s festival, which took place in the Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon, over the weekend of October 4th to 6th.
For more information about the Iron Mountain Literature Festival, visit ironmountainfestival.ie.
