Tag: Short story collection

Collaboration, Writer Interview, Writers Read

New Publication at Compulsive Reader

I'm delighted that my interview with Maya Sonenberg about her latest short story collection Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters has been published over on Compulsive Reader run by Magdalena Ball. Maya and I talk sensory writing, naming our characters, the importance of objects, how stories in a collection can echo each other - and more! Read … Continue reading New Publication at Compulsive Reader

Writer Interview, Writers Chat, Writing Life

Writers Chat 51: Bernie McGill on “This Train is For”(No Alibis Press: Belfast, 2022)

Bernie, You are very welcome to my WRITERS CHAT series. Congratulations on This Train is For (No Alibis Press: Belfast, 2022) – a fantastic short story collection with, as Jan Carson has said, “not a word wasted or misplaced.” Cover of "This Train is For" by Bernie McGill showing interior of a train carriage with … Continue reading Writers Chat 51: Bernie McGill on “This Train is For”(No Alibis Press: Belfast, 2022)

Writer Interview, Writers Chat

Writers Chat 41: Philip Ó Ceallaigh on “Trouble” (Stinging Fly: Dublin, 2021)

You’re very welcome to my Writers Chat series. We’re going to chat about Trouble (Stinging Fly: Dublin, 2021), your new short story collection which, in John Banville’s words, shows you as “a wonderful writer…a master in full control of his material.” I have to agree – the prose is tight and illuminating, the stories gritty … Continue reading Writers Chat 41: Philip Ó Ceallaigh on “Trouble” (Stinging Fly: Dublin, 2021)