Paddy O'Reilly

For the Irish footballer, see Paddy O'Reilly (footballer).

Paddy O'Reilly is a multiple award-winning Australian writer. Her first major short story prize was the Age Short Story Award in 2002 for her story, "Snapshots of Strangers".[1] She was an Asialink resident to Japan in 1997 [2] and has also won residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Varuna, The Writers' House, Bundanon Trust, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre and the Newcastle Lockup,[3] among others. She has won the Norma K Hemming Award[4] and been shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal,[5] the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards[6] and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.[7] Her novels and stories have been published and broadcast in Australia and New Zealand, China, the Caribbean, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. Heart of Pearl, a short film for which she wrote the screenplay, was nominated for an Australian Film Institute award.

  1. ^ "Writer's winning streak - theage.com.au". www.theage.com.au. 14 December 2002. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Home". Asialink. 27 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Artist in Residence".
  4. ^ "Previous Award Winners". The Norma K Hemming Award. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). asaliterature.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - Matilda". www.middlemiss.org. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  7. ^ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.