Category: Writers Read

On Reading, Writers Chat, Writers Read, Writing Life

Reading, Reading, Reading

Photograph of two books: In The Dark by Anamaría Crowe Serrano and The Garden by Paul Perry

Three photographs of the new literary journal Seed
Photograph of the book Look It’s A Woman Writer! Irish Literary Feminisms 1970 – 2020
Photograph of the book Love Stories for Hectic People by Catherine McNamara

Yes! I’ve been readings LOADS and have some very exciting new Writers Chats coming up soon – from the page-turning The Garden to the wonderfully written In The Dark to the exquisite collectively created and produced Seed and the intriguing Love Stories for Hectic People.

If you haven’t been to your local bookshop or library, now is the time to go to catch up on new readings, new ideas and you’re in for layers of treats and generous stories of writing lives with the latest from Arlen House edited by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Look! It’s a Woman Writer!

Go forth, and read, read, read.

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

Contemplation, Writers Read, Writing Life

Reading & Staying Put

Image of candle burning and eight books.

  • Magda Szabó The Door
  • Grace Wilentz The Limit of Light
  • Raymond Carter Cathedral
  • Margaret Atwood On Writers and Writing
  • Eva Baltasar Permafrost
  • Deborah Levy The Man Who Saw Everything
  • Edith Eger The Gift
  • the Paris Review Winter 2020 235

And this is my current reading pile, some of which I am reading for the second or third time, others which I have yet to start, and one which I am in gloriously lost inside. By tomorrow this stack of books will have changed again, grown, shrunk, and have been re-considered. Such is the reading life. So deeply connected to that of the writing life.

Wishing all readers, lurkers, viewers, writers and observers safe and happy reading, listening, writing…and being.