Spotlight On Writers – Sean O’Leary

Spotlight On Writers

Sean O’Leary

@SeanOl777

1. Where, do you hail from?

2. What is the greatest thing about the place you call home?

Currently, my football team, The Melbourne Demons (the oldest professional sporting team in the world) are going to play in the Grand Final. The Dees haven’t won the premiership since 1964. And Melbourne is a city of Literature too, so as a writer it’s great that I am back living here. The weather is amazing too. Love it.

3. What turns you on creatively?

4. What is your favorite word, and can you use it in a poetic sentence?

Sluiced.

The cars sluiced by on the road outside as they sat in the cafe talking and rain drizzled down on the whole city.

5. What is your pet peeve?

I don’t think I have one. Maybe people not wearing masks when they should and i find they seem to do it to get noticed, for attention if you like, like a small child.

6. What defines Sean O’Leary?

Oh, I’m a writer. That’s the number one thing. Life would be unbearable for me without writing. How else could I make sense of the world? I also love walking, urban or beach, tracks and trails and so on.

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Sean O'Leary

Sean O’Leary has published 5 short story collections, My Town, Walking, Wonderland, Tokyo Jazz and Other Stories and This is Not a Love Song. His novella Drifting was the winner of the ‘Great Novella Search 2016’ and published in 2017. He has published over 40 stories in literary and crime fiction journals. His crime novella The Heat was published in 2019. His interviews with crime writers appear in Crime Time magazine. His crime novel Going All the Way is out now and his crime series includes, City of Sin and City of Fear. The third book, City of Vice drops late 2023. He has worked in a variety of jobs including motel receptionist, rubbish removalist/tree lopper, farm hand and night manager in various hotels in Sydney’s notorious, Kings Cross. He has lived all over the bloody place but now resides in Melbourne, thinks that test cricket is the greatest game of all and supports Melbourne Football Club. He writes like a demon, loves travelling, is mad about photography, does some AI art and tries to walk everywhere.

Latest posts by Sean O'Leary (see all)

• Writing with Schiz - May 6, 2023
• Cigarettes - February 5, 2023
• American Diner - June 7, 2022

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