Mike Donoghue

Mike Donoghue

About

Mike Donoghue grew up in a small fishing village on the East Coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, and now resides in Vancouver. Mike’s stories have appeared in anthologies, literary journals, sci-fi magazines, and online. He has been a James White Award runner-up, a Sunburst Award finalist, Pulp Literature Raven winner for best short story of the year, and a reader at the Vancouver Word Festival. Mike works in public health research, where he spends much of his time preoccupied with herding cats.

Coming next: Legion Revisited
The second novel. Read the opening premise.

Readings

Reader at Word Vancouver 2016 on the Eco-fiction stage for the short story “Double Double,” published in the Winds of Change anthology, a collection of short stories about our climate.

Interviews

Kathy Steinemann interviews Michael Donoghue, author of “The Demise of Great Expectations”

Author Showcase: Michael Donoghue, trapeze magazine

Awards and nominations

• Sunburst Award shortlist, 2016, for “Stuck in the Past”

The story originally appeared in Issue 54 of Abyss & Apex. The judges described Michael as “a prolific speculative fiction writer who’s writing has inventive plot twists, convincing scientific jargon, is outlandish, clever, and completely hilarious.”

• Pulp Literature Hummingbird Flash Fiction shortlist, 2015 and 2019

Shortlisted in 2015 for “The Demise of Great Expectations” and in 2019 for “The Decline of the Human Race.”

• James White Award, second place, 2019, for “Property Crime”

“In 2019, the judges awarded a special commendation to runner up Property Crime by Michael Donoghue – who missed out by the narrowest margin in the Award’s history.”

• Pulp Literature Raven Short Story Contest, winner, 2019, for “Life4Sale”

Judge JJ Lee: “‘Life4Sale’ showed in its epistolary structure a great command of character voice. The world building and the weird factor are efficiently established without ever forgetting that character motive and conflict are what make a short story tick. It never bogs down in the spec fic mechanics. I appreciated how it is the kind of story you may find on Black Mirror or, if you’re old enough, classic Twilight Zone.”