Csilla Toldy

Csilla Toldy was born in Budapest. She escaped from socialist Hungary as a teenager in 1981. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous UK and Irish literary magazines and anthologies, such as Southword, The Black Mountain Review and anthology, The Incubator and Ink Sweat and Tears. Her poetry collection Red Roots - Orange Sky was published by Lapwing Publications Belfast in 2013, followed by an anthology of short fiction, poetry and memoir in 2015. Most recently, Csilla’s poetry was anthologised in “Mothers and Sons” by Demeter Press, Canada.

Her film scripts won the Katapult Prize and the Special Prize of the Motion Pictures Association of America as the Hungarian entry to the Hartley-Merrill Prize and they were placed as Drama (Foreign Film) Genre Finalist in the APMFF Screenplay Competition 2015 in New Jersey. “The Bloom Mystery” her documentary based on Joyce’s Ulysses was screened internationally

Her poems were short listed for the Bridport Prize and long listed for the Oxford Brookes Prize, Fish poetry prize.

Her short stories were short listed for the Strictly Writing Award and long listed for the Fish Short Story Prize.

Her narrative non-fiction was short listed for the Kingston University Biography Prize and the Fish Memoir Prize.

Csilla lives in Rostrevor, Co. Down. www.csillatoldy.co.uk