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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O Death, where is thy sting?
As I look South from Donegal, Knockarea in Sligo is just behind Ben Bulben. In the window, I watched a wasp die in the web of a much smaller spider with Knockarea in the distance, it gave me a much…
Writers XBorders
XBorders is a new cross-border project bringing together emerging writers to explore and write about borders through fiction or non-fiction. As part of the Irish Writers Centre’s Northern Irish programme, writers from across Ireland will work on the theme of…
Catch Up
I came back to my parents’ roots in Donegal in 2001. I brought with me work and connections from all over the place and many connections lost along the way. Were you there? Were you there in Northern Ireland in…
Self-definition
Lia Mills (libranwriter.com) article on why there are so many Irish writers. She blames the weather. Read her blog and read her novel, Fallen, if you haven’t already. I defy you to find a better literary representation of 1914-16 in Dublin.…
Second book syndrome
What makes a writer? Prompted by the Leipzig Book Fair in March, Suzanne Rippenberger’s article in the German newspaper, Taggespiegel explores „second book syndrome“. She claims the second book crisis it heightened by the writer’s consciousness of the time between…
From Berlin to Chorlton
Saturday 29th November between 2.30 and 4pm at Chorlton Library, Manchester M21 9PN. My novel, „Bone and Blood“ internationally available from 28th November will be celebrated at an event with proceeds to the Bhopal Medical Appeal. (see www.bhopal.org for the…