Katherine Porter, of Channel 4’s The IT Crowd will read The Lost Weekend, a new story from the Galway writer Hugo Kelly on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday December 8 at 3.30pm.
The Lost Weekend is about a single woman who takes a chance to escape for a while, only to find reality waiting on her return.
Hugo Kelly works as a librarian in NUI Galway and lives in Knocknacarra. He has won a number of writing awards for his short fiction in Ireland and Britain including the 2009 Brian Moore Award, the Maria Edgeworth Award, the Writers and Artists Yearbook Children’s Story Award, The Irish Times/Anna Livia Award. He has twice being nominated for Hennessy Awards in Emerging Fiction and shortlisted also for the Francis McManus Short Story Competition on RTÉ Radio.
