Draft:Sam Fowley

Sam Fowley
Born (1985-06-08) 8 June 1985 (age 41)
Alma mater
Years active2012–present
Children2

Sam Fowley (born c. 1985) is an Irish author of speculative fiction. Fowley began their career with the young adult (YA) novels The Accident Season (2015), shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, Spellbook of the Lost and Found (2017) and All the Bad Apples (2019). More recently, their short story "Such a Pretty Face" won an Irish Book Award.

Early life

The eldest of four, Fowley was born to a French mother and an Irish father[1] and grew up in Clontarf, Dublin. They also spent summers in their mother's hometown between Bordeaux and Biarritz in the southwest of France.[2] Fowley attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School.[3] They studied English and French at University College Dublin and then pursued a Masters in Literature at Trinity College Dublin. They began but did not finish a PhD.[1]

Career

Fowley started writing their debut novel in 2012. Via Corgi Publishers and Kathy Dawson Books (imprints of Penguin Random House), Fowley's debut young adult (YA) magical realism novel The Accident Season was published in 2015 under the name Moïra Fowley-Doyle.[4][5] The Accident Season was a Waterstones Children's Book Prize finalist, nominated for the Carnegie Medal and won a Great Reads Award in the Junior category.

This was followed by Fowley's second and third YA novels Spellbook of the Lost and Found in 2017 and All the Bad Apples in 2019.[6][7] Both novels were shortlisted for the Irish Book Award for Teen / Young Adult Book of the Year, while the latter was also shortlisted for the Children's Books Ireland Awards. Fowley also contributed to Juno Dawson's 2019 Proud anthology.[8]

Via Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Orion Publishing), Fowley's short story collection and first work for adults titled Eyes Guts Throat Bones was published in 2023.[9][10] One of their short stories "Such a Pretty Face" won Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.

Personal life

As of 2019, Fowley lived in Santry and has two daughters with their ex-husband.[3] In 2023, Fowley wrote an article in The Irish Times about their journey coming to terms with their sexuality.[11]

Bibliography

YA novels

  • The Accident Season (2015)
  • Spellbook of the Lost and Found (2017)
  • All the Bad Apples (2019)

Adult novels

  • Oracle (TBA)

Short story collections

  • Eyes Guts Throat Bones (2023)

Contributions

  • "Love Poems to the City" in Proud (2019), edited by Juno Dawson

Accolades

Year Award Category Title Result Ref.
2016 Waterstones Children's Book Prize Older Fiction The Accident Season Shortlisted [12]
Carnegie Medal for Writing Nominated [13]
Great Reads Awards Junior Won [14]
2017 Irish Book Awards Teen / Young Adult Book of the Year Spellbook of the Lost and Found Shortlisted [15]
2019 All the Bad Apples Shortlisted [16]
2020 Children's Books Ireland Awards Shortlisted [17]
2023 Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year "Such a Pretty Face" Won [18]

References

  1. ^ a b Shortall, Eithne (28 May 2017). "Every little thing she does". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  2. ^ Grenham, Sophie (6 September 2019). "Writer's Block with Moïra Fowley-Doyle". The Gloss. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  3. ^ a b Hourican, Emily (4 August 2019). "'Take up space. Be a little wild. Don't be afraid'". Irish Independent. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  4. ^ Truitt, Brian (22 June 2015). "Exclusive excerpt: New YA 'Accident Season'". USA Today. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  5. ^ O'Doherty, Caroline (29 August 2015). "Book review: The Accident Season". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  6. ^ Gupta, Simran (7 February 2018). ""Spellbook of the Lost and Found" is a haunting book in the best way possible". The Simmons Voice. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  7. ^ Zatz, Sasha (19 August 2019). "Review: All The Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle". The Nerd Daily. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  8. ^ Gomez, Nick (7 March 2019). "Book Review: Proud by various authors, compiled by Juno Dawson". Culturefly. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  9. ^ Hayden, David (1 June 2023). "Eyes Guts Throat Bones by Moïra Fowley review – fairytale fun and gore". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  10. ^ "Moïra Fowley's EYES GUTS THROAT BONES: visceral stories about queer bodies and the end of the world". Buzz. 19 April 2023. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  11. ^ Fowley, Moïra (17 April 2023). "I 'couldn't possibly know' I was a lesbian at 17. Now I'm coming to terms with years of compulsory heterosexuality". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  12. ^ Pauli, Michelle (2016-02-11). "Waterstones children's book prize 2016 shortlists - in pictures". the Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  13. ^ "Nominations published for the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals 2016". The Carnegies. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  14. ^ "The Great Reads Award: 2016 Junior Shortlist" (PDF). School Libraries Ireland. June 2024. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  15. ^ "Shortlists announced for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017". The Irish Times. 2 November 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  16. ^ McShane, Jennifer (24 October 2019). "A wealth of Irish talent: An Post Irish Book Awards 2019 shortlist revealed". Image. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  17. ^ Holtz, Jill (9 March 2020). "The 10 Books on the 2020 CBI Children's Book of the Year Shortlist". My Kids Time. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  18. ^ "Murray, Walsh and O'Sullivan among winners at An Post Irish Book Awards". The Bookseller. 22 November 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.

Category:1985 births Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Category:Alumni of University College Dublin Category:Irish LGBTQ writers Category:Irish fantasy writers Category:Irish people of French descent Category:Irish horror writers Category:Irish novelists Category:Irish writers of young adult literature Category:People from Clontarf, Dublin Category:Writers from Dublin (city)

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