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Brian Leyden
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Born1960 (age 63–64)
Arigna, County Roscommon, Ireland
OccupationNovelist, short story writer, screenwriter, documentarian, editor, mentor
LanguageEnglish
Nationality Irish
EducationFine Arts, Creative Writing
Notable workThe Home Place, Love These Days

Brian Leyden (born 1960) is an Irish writer. He has published three novels, two short story collections and a best selling memoir. He has co-written a script for a feature film, made radio documentaries and is a regular contributor to Sunday Miscellany on RTE Radio 1. In 2021 Brian Leyden was one of the founders of the independent regional imprint Lepus Print. https://www.lepusprint.com/

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Biography

Brian Leyden is from the coal mining valley of  Arigna, County Roscommon, [1] a place and a way of life memorialised in the author's work. He writes fiction and non-fiction in which he holds a Masters in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, (2022) [2] and a PG Diploma in Fine Art (NCEA) (1983). [3] Leyden has been a creative non-fiction mentor with the MFA in Creative Writing at Carlow University Pittsburgh for twenty years. [4] He has worked continuously in the arts, including the positions of Writer in Residence with Leitrim and Sligo Libraries. He has mentored for the NUI Galway BA in Creative Writing program. [5] Reading tours he participated in include Ireland and its Diaspora Writers & Musician's Tour of Germany (1996), Newport Festival Rhode Island, and The Irish Writers' Centre Peregrine Readings (2010) [6] and New York in (2019). Leyden as a writer is very engaged with the relationship between place and the creative calling. He lives on the Atlantic coast of North Sligo with his wife.

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Editorial Highlights

Radio Documentaries

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Essays and Anthologies

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