Author: Brendan Landers
Bio: Dublin-born Brendan Landers is a novelist/writer/journalist and has appeared as a commentator on the Ryan Tubridy Show (RTE Radio), Hearts and Minds (BBC TV), CBS News (USA) and the BBC World Service.
His first novel, Milo Devine, was published to critical acclaim by Poolbeg Press in 2001 and his short stories have been published in Whispers & Shouts (Ireland), The Sunday Tribune (Ireland), Ireland's Own (Ireland), Ireland's Eye (Canada), The Celtic Connection (Canada), The Toronto Star (Canada), The White Wall Review (Canada) and Storyteller Magazine (Canada).
He has won prizes in the Dunlavin Arts Festival Short Story Competition (2006), the James Plunkett Memorial Award (2004), the Sunday Tribune/Education Matters Short Story Competition (1996) and the Toronto Star Short Story Competition (1995). His other accolades include Canada's Off The Wall Award for Fiction (1993) and the Ontario Women's Press Club Award for Excellence in Writing (1989). His journalism has also been published in a wide variety of Irish, Canadian and US publications, including The Irish Times, The Globe and Mail (Canada), The Vancouver Sun, This Magazine, Compass Magazine and Emmy Magazine (USA).
He is the former Publisher/Managing Editor of Ireland's Eye, a magazine for Irish Canadians, and the former Editor of the Irish Canada News, a Toronto-based monthly newspaper.
He has written for a number of other publications that cater to the expatriate Irish community and people of Irish ancestry, including Irish America Magazine (New York), The Irish Post (Great Britain), The Irish Echo (Australia), The Celtic Connection (Vancouver) and The Toronto Irish News.
His website is at: www.brendanlanders.ie