Category: Writing News

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

Writing Life, Writing News, Writing Workshops

Kildare Children’s Book Festival – Workshops

I’m delighted to be taking part in Kildare Libraries Children’s Book Festival this October. 

I will be facilitating two linked creative writing workshops on 29th and 30th October 2020 aimed at writers who are between 14 and 16 years of age. Join me for some fun creativity! 

Click here to book into my workshops and see here for more information on the festival which offers a wonderful variety of workshops for all ages – and which are free of charge thanks to Maynooth Library & Kildare Library Service. 

Exhibitions, Writing News

As the world slowly opens…so, too, do the art galleries

The Irish Times recently published Gemma Tipton’s guide to “The best artworks to see in Ireland’s reopened galleries”.

Margo and I are thrilled that Duality is deemed one of them:

Margo McNulty’s show, Duality, is a collaboration with writer Shauna Gilligan, and both are fascinated by the stories that wrap around, and soak into the land. Find prints, paintings and an artist’s book from an exhibition that has lain quietly, waiting for the world to open up again. Until July 31th, with Mark Garry’s An Lucht Siúil (The Walking People) opening on August 8th.
Roscommon Arts Centre, Circular Road, Roscommon. Open now. 

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Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/the-best-artworks-to-see-in-ireland-s-reopened-galleries-1.4288578 [Accessed 10 July 2020]

If you can’t make it to the exhibition in person you might like to take a look at this video which gives you insight into the process and also serves as a taster for the exhibition:

Roscommon Art Centre – Margo McNulty from puredesigns on Vimeo.