Alan McCormick lives in Wicklow. He’s a trustee of the stroke charity InterAct Stroke Support, who employ actors to read fiction and poetry to stroke patients.
As well as The Lonely Crowd, his writing has featured in many publications, including Best British Short Stories, The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Southword, Exacting Clam, Confingo, Popshot, Poetry Bus and Sonder; and online at Dead Drunk Dublin, Époque Press, Books Ireland, 3:AM Magazine, Fictive Dream, Trasna and Words for the Wild. His story ‘Fire Starter’ came second in 2022’s RTÉ Francis MacManus Story Competition, and ‘Boys on Film’ was runner up in 2023’s Plaza Sudden Fiction Prize. His story collection, Dogsbodies and Scumsters, which included flash pieces illustrated by the artist Jonny Voss, was longlisted in the Edge Hill Prize. He’s recently completed his second story collection and a book of memoir essays with the assistance of an Irish Arts Council Literature Award.











