tracy fahey
author
“A modern-day gothic whose Kafkaesque otherworldly stories are beautifully disturbing.”
Lol Tolhurst, musician and writer, on The Unheimlich Manoeuvre
Tracy Fahey is an award-winning Irish author of eight books principally concerned with reimagined folklore and female Gothic. Awards include the 2025 Rubery International Book Award and the 2024 Paul Cave Prize for Literature. Fahey has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017, 2022, and 2024. In 2023 she received a Saari Fellowship from the Kone Foundation for her writing.. Fahey's short fiction has appeared in more than sixty Irish, UK, US and Australian anthologies and been reprinted in the British Library Tales of the Weird series and Stephen Jones' Best New Horror. Her stories have been shortlisted for numerous awards including Fractured Lit, London Independent Story Prize, and Leicester Short Story Prize.She has been Guest of Honour at the UK Ghost Story Festival and Fantasticon, Denmark. Fahey's writing is supported by residencies in Ireland, Scotland, Greece, and Finland, and funded by Irish Grants Under The Arts and an Individual Arts Bursary. ​Fahey holds a PhD in the Gothic and lectures in creative writing, contemporary Gothic, and folk horror at the Limerick School of Art and Design.
In 2026 she has two books forthcoming, Queens Of The Crone Age with PS Publishing (pre-order the signed hardback here and the trade paperback here) and Down We Go Together (Black Shuck Books). World rights for her ninth book, Women Changing have been acquired by Fly On The Wall Press who will publish it in February 2027. You can already pre-order it here.
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SHORT STORIES: FREE TO READ
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- 'I Look Like You, I Speak Like You, I Walk Like You' (2014) in JU Lit-Zine Vol. 10 (ed. Nick Gerrard) can be read here This story has featured on several Best Short Story lists, and the film rights for it were acquired in 2021.
- 'An Chailleach Bhéarra' (2026) in Rejoinder Issue11: Spring 2026, Ritual, Healing and World-Making, Institute for Research on Women, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers, New Brunswick can be read here
- 'There Where I Am Not' (2026) published by Tractor Beam Vol 4: Thaw issue, illustrated by Julia Dufosse and annotated by Jeff Vandermeer, can be read here.
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIION
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Shortlisted, Fractured Literary, 2026.
Winner, Rubery International Book Award, 2025.
Longlisted, Mslexia Women's Fiction 2025
Winner. Best Novella. The Paul Cave Prize For Literature, 2024.
Shortlisted for British Fantasy Award for Best Novella, 2024.
Shortlisted for London Independent Story Prize, 2024.
Reading Ambassador for Clare County Library for Ireland Reads Campaign, February 2024.
Recipient of Cill Rialaig Writing Residency, Ireland. 2024.
Recipient of Saari Fellowship, the Kone Foundation, Finland, 2023.
Guest of Honour at Fantasticon, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2023.
Recipient of Cill Rialaig Writing Residency, Ireland. 2023.
Recipient of Clare Arts Grant, awarded by Clare County Council. 2023.
Honourable Mention, Ellen Datlow
Shortlisted for British Fantasy Award for Best Collection, 2022.
Recipient of Cill Rialaig Writing Residency, Ireland. 2022
Recipient of Individual Arts Bursary, awarded by Limerick City and County Council. 2022.
Guest of Honour at UK Ghost Story Festival, Derby, UK. 2021.
Shortlisted for Leicester Short Story Prize. 2021.
Recipient of Cill Rialaig Writing Residency, Ireland. 2021.
Honourable Mention, Ellen Datlow 2019.
Recipient of Limnisa Writing Residency, Methana, Greece. 2019.
Shortlisted for British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. 2017.