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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Two Cities One Book (ii)
A lot of people ask about the Two Cities One Book experience and I thought I might write about it a little, in the blog. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before, it’s as new to me as it … Continue reading
Posted in Events, FALLEN, Two Cities One Book festival 2016, Uncategorized
Tagged Beth, Celia de Fréine, Dictionary of National Biography online, DLR LExicon, Emer Casey, Fallen, Great War centenary, Hot Press, Katie, Libraries NI, Oxford reference online, Two Cities One Book, Write Here Write Now competition
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WHAT A WAY TO GO! (JULIA FORSTER Blog Tour)
Hi Julia, thanks for taking the time to do this interview in the run up to publication. Harper, your protagonist in What a Way to Go! is a great character: likeable, believable and completely unsentimental. Where did she come from? … Continue reading
Posted in Interview, YA Fiction
Tagged Andy McSmith, Arvon, Cinnamon, Cynan Jones, Eluned Gramich, Firefly Press, Gladstone's Library, Gomer, Gwen Davies, Gwyneth Lewis, Here We Stand, Honno, Judy Blume, Julia Forster, Kate Hamer, Literature Wales, Mary Karr, mental health, New Welsh Review, New Welsh Writing Awards, Nigel Lawson, Paris Review, Parthian, Planet, Poetry Wales, post-natal depression, Rachel Trezise, Rack Press, Seren, single parenting, Tom Bullough, Ty Newydd, Wales Arts Review, Welsh Books Council, Welsh Women's Press Committee, What a Way to Go!, YA Fiction, Yemaya Wood
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ROOM (the film)
I was lucky enough to get to a special preview of Room (the film) yesterday at the Lighthouse, courtesy of Element Pictures. The film is, quite simply, brilliant: beautiful, unsettling and moving. During the Q & A afterwards it came up that … Continue reading
ALL ADVENTUROUS WOMEN: Nollaig na mBan @ the Irish Writers Centre*, 6th January 2016
Amy Herron introduced proceedings, telling us that the eight soap-boxers were given a brief to take: ‘All adventurous women do …” as a starting pont, and that each person would speak for four minutes, from a rather precarious and wobbly … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged 'The Opposite of a Thank You Letter', Amy Herron, Erin Fornoff, Evelyn Conlon, Irish Writers Centre (sic), Joanna Walsh, Lisa McInerney, Lisa O'Neill, Mary O'Donnell, Michelle Read, Nollaig na mBan, Not the Same Sky, Sally Rooney, Sinead Gleeson, The Book Show, The Lass of Aughrim, The Tunnel Club
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FARMLEIGH WORKSHOPS
I’ll be working at Farmleigh in the first half of 2016 as writer-in-residence, curating a series of events. First-off will be a pair of life-writing/memoir writing workshops, to be held on two consecutive Saturdays. Participants will be expected to work … Continue reading
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