Category: Collaboration

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KRF 2021: MANTLES Webinar

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This year I was awarded a Creative Ireland Bursary (Kildare County Council) with Margo McNulty (Roscommon County Council), to work on our collaboration Mantles which explored Brigid through place, symbols, artefacts and heritage.

On Tuesday October 5th at 2pm, Margo and I talk with Clodagh Doyle (Keeper, Irish Folklife Division, National Museum of Ireland), about our extensive research including the use of public archives and artefacts, and our image and word making. Margo will discuss some of her images in detail and I will give two short readings from my writing on Brigid.

Please join us – sign up for this FREE event: Kildare Readers Festival Eventbrite

Collaboration, Writing News

Creative Ireland Bursary Award 2021 (Kildare)

I was delighted to hear the great news that Mantles, a collaborative project between myself and artist Margo McNulty has been awarded a Government of Ireland Creative Ireland Bursary and funding – with gratitude! – from Kildare County Council and Roscommon County Council.


Photograph by Margo McNulty (c) 2021 – Close up of green oak leaves

Mantles explores the themes of heritage and sense of place symbolising Brigid. Through archival artefacts and site visits it aims to create through words and images new representations of Brigid as an archetype of the sacred feminine. We will update our progress on the project page Mantles.

Collaboration, Writer Interview, Writers Read, Writing News

New Publication in Lit Journal Heavy Feather Review

I’m delighted to have my interview with Jeannine Ouellette about her stunning memoir The Part That Burns (Spilt Lip Press: 2021) featured in the latest issue (Vol 11) of Heavy Feather Review, with thanks to editor Jason Teal.

The Part That Burns (Split/Lip Press, 2021), was included on The Rumpus’s Most Anticipated for the first half of 2021. It is a beautiful reflection on the complexities of daughterhood and motherhood. Moving through childhood, the teenage years and adulthood, it explores what it means to be female with a body through which desire ebbs and flows, is given, denied, and, at times, forced. READ THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE.

Photograph of The Part That Burns and author Jeannine Oullettee