WRITING – I write from necessity. If I’m not writing, I’m miserable. I’ve written lots of non-fiction over the years but I reached a turning point in 2009 when I was short listed for the Virginia [Woolf] prize for my novel, Bone and Blood, published in 2014. Now every day is a writing day wherever I am.
Gunther
Gunther will be my third novel. It is about writing and AI Das Buch erscheint im Herbst. Stay tuned!
Michel-Michelle
My second novel Michel-Michelle challenges fixed notions of gender and seeks to increase awareness of diversity in ourselves, our friends, our families, and others.
Bone and Blood
My first novel, Bone and Blood, was inspired by a visit to Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin where I found out some Irish women had been imprisoned during the Second World War.
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all out
„It seems unfair that on a day when everyone is coming out on strike to protest against Climate Change, writers need to be louder, wiser and more articulate than ever. But we do. Speak out on September 20th. Use your…
Othering
Death threats and attacks on writers for getting it wrong on gender identity or race (see below) is all part of what Toni Morrison described as „othering“. „Othering“ is about making the “other” less than me. It is choosing to build…
On borders
Toni Morrison speaks volumes in one paragraph on global migration which connects intimately to me as the territorial border through Ulster threatens to cut through my hybrid Irish-British-European identity. Encouraged by her words, I claim a cross-border culture of belonging…
Honoring Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison stretched my consciousness across continents of pain like no other writer. The recent gift of her essay, The Origin of Others, spells it out for us. We not born racist: racism is taught. She reminds us of how…
Imperial
@victorinapress launched a Spanish translation of My Beautiful Imperial, Rhiannon Lewis’s novel, in the Chilean embassy in London last week. It adds an extra dimension to #diversity in its depiction of how a seafaring Welshman is caught up in the Chilean…
Togo
Insight into Togo in Danielle Maisiano’s novel Ardent Witness, pub Victorina Press and launched tomorrow.