Seamus Sullivan I made just two visits to the Greystone Inn before it changed forever. One as a newlywed son-in-law in August 2008. The second in August 2014 to introduce our 5 year old son to his grand parents. It seemed to me even then, to be a place whose time was passing. The Greystone…
All photos were taken by Jo Mazelis, who also headlined the evening with a reading of her Lonely Crowd short story, ‘Whose Story is this Anyway?’ You can listen to Jo reading her piece from our Winter issue, ‘The Twice Pricked Heart’, here. Special thanks to Mozart’s, Swansea, for all their help setting up the…
In the new, Winter Issue of The Lonely Crowd, we published an extraordinary, multi-layered photo essay by Susan MaierMoul entitled Fountain. Here the writer Eamonn Sheehy discusses Fountain with MaierMoul, as well as his own forthcoming work, Summer in the City State. Eamonn Sheehy: I first came across the work of Susan MaierMoul when her short…
Many of the pieces presented here are bathed in a winter light, whether it be short stories that take place directly in the season, such as 2015 Jerwood Prize-winner Jo Mazelis’s 16th Century-set, ‘The Twice-Pricked Heart’, Fred Johnstone’s Joycean ‘The Beautiful Daylight Has Gone’, or Jamie Guiney’s delightfully gentle-hearted, festive tale ‘Christmas Eve’.
Here are some photos by Jo Mazelis from our event at The Coffi House last night. Jo also gave a reading of her Lonely Crowd short story ‘The Green Hour’, which can be read here. Special thanks to Robert Templar and The Coffi Shop for all…