Category: Writing News

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.

On Reading, Writing Life, Writing News

Life Stories: Non-Fiction

Photograph of the cover of Deborah Levy’s Real Estate and Joan Didion’s Let me tell you what I mean – both covers use shades of red and I am wearing red runners

I have been immersed in fiction and writing but for the next few weeks I am turning my attention to reading about the lives of others in a fab non-fiction selection – I’m almost finished with Solnit’s brilliant memoir.

I will also start into a wonderful collaborative research project with a trip to the archives of the National Library of Ireland. But more on this project later….

Happy Reading to you all!

Photograph of my writing notebook, Rebecca Solnit’s Recollections of my non-existence, Sophie White’s Corpsing, Rachel Kushner’s The Hard Crowd. All non-fiction titles by female authors.

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