Valerie O’Riordan reads her story ‘Good People’ from Issue 7 of The Lonely Crowd.

Valerie O’Riordan received her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester in 2016. She is a former editor of The Manchester Review, and current editor at The Forge Literary Magazine. Her work has won and been shortlisted for various awards, including both the Bristol and Bridport Short Story Prizes, and has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Mechanics Institute Review, Unthology, LitMag, Fugue, Sou’wester and For Books’ Sake’s Weekend Read.

‘Good People’ is featured in Issue Seven of The Lonely Crowd. See the site tomorrow to read how Valerie wrote ‘Good People’.

© Valerie O’Riordan, 2017. Image © Jo Mazelis, 2017.