Gavin Eugene O'Toole

Stories . . . nothing less

Award-winning writer of short stories, novelist, journalist, and copywriter

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  • Longlisted: Fiction Factory

    I’m very proud to have been longlisted in the Fiction Factory First Chapter Competition 2025 for the beginning of my novel entitled ‘The Library of Unpublished Books’, a tale about the travails of an aspiring, but failed, writer . . .

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    May 26, 2025
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  • Shortlisted: Wenlock Olympian Society

    I’m very proud to have been shortlisted in the Wenlock Olympian Society’s Short Story Competition 2024/2025 for my tale ‘The moon of the Moon’. This uses a . . .

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    February 18, 2025
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  • Longlisted: Fiction Factory

    I’m very proud to have been longlisted in the Fiction Factory Short Story Competition 2024 for my tale ‘The Capo’s King’. This is a meditation on freedom . . .

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    October 31, 2024
    Competitions, Fiction, Short stories
  • Winner: New2thescene

    I’m very proud and grateful to win the New2thescene writing competition for my short story Church of Rage. This explores the cult of violence that has consumed our society . . .

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    September 30, 2024
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  • Land of Waves

    Land of Waves

    Pirates board a rusty boat carrying migrant children fleeing war and poverty in search of a new life across the sea . . . The new children’s story by Eugene O’Toole, to be published in March by Hawkwood Books, is a moving tale about the hazards faced by child migrants.

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    January 10, 2024
    Children, Fiction
    Children, human trafficking, literature, middle grade, migrants, migration, novel, refugees
  • Molly Path

    Molly Path

    Molly Path, a story for young adults and my debut novel, has been published by the great independent press Hawkwood Books. When retired teacher Eileen is asked to tutor Molly, a troubled teenager who refuses to attend school, a bond forms that helps both confront family demons—and learn to forgive. Molly Path is a moving

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    August 15, 2022
    Fiction, Young Adult

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