A Girl's Writing Is Never Done (c) Shauna Gilligan 2025
How wonderful to find a review in the Irish Times (6th April) of the Arlen House Anthology Tearing Stripes off Zebras edited by Nessa O’Mahony. The review highlights the quality and variety of the work, and I’m delighted to have a short story in it. The anthology is dedicated to the memory of Eavan Boland.
Tearing Stripes off Zebras is an anthology of new literary writing by thirty-three women who, at one time or another, have participated in the WEB writers’ group, which grew out of a series of creative writing workshops facilitated by Eavan Boland in the 1980s. The workshops were the brainchild of Arlen House founder Catherine Rose, who appointed Eavan Boland as Creative Director.
This anthology of new poetry, prose and drama, edited by Nessa O’Mahony, is dedicated to the memory of Eavan Boland.
I am delighted to have writing in the anthology which includes poetry, prose and drama by Ivy Bannister, Sheila Barrett, Louise C. Callaghan, Susan Connolly, Colette Connor, Mary Rose Callaghan, Celia de Fréine, Catherine Dunne, Philomena Feighan, Shauna Gilligan, Antonia Hart, Phyl Herbert, Pat Hickey, Joan Leech, Antoinette McCarthy, Ann McKay, Marilyn McLaughlin, Liz McManus, Lia Mills, Sara Mullen, Patsy J. Murphy, Helena Nolan, Clairr O’Connor, Mary O’Donnell, Beth O’Halloran, Nessa O’Mahony, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Anne Roper, Susan Schreibman, Monica Strina, Dolores Walshe, Breda Wall Ryan, Máiríde Woods
Please consider ordering it from your local bookshop or you can pre-order it from Waterstones here!
9781851323005 paperback
9781851323104 limited edition hardback
The anthology, which will be launched on 16th September 2023 in dlr Lexicon, has been funded and supported by Creative Ireland and by dlr Libraries.
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