NEWS FROM THE BLOG

Today’s date tells me that there are exactly two months to go to the launch of the San Patrizio Livorno Festival in March 2019.

My thanks to Niamh Boyce, whose poetry collection ‘Inside the Wolf’, is the subject of this final post for 2018. Happy Christmas to all – and more than anything, happy reading.

On Friday, 16th November, the always excellent Dublin Book Festival held a standing-room-only event at the National Library. It was further proof, if such were needed, of Ireland’s ongoing love-affair with the short story.

I am delighted to welcome Martina Devlin to my website, to celebrate the publication of her latest work of fiction ‘Truth & Dare’.

Last Tuesday, 18th September, Arlen House launched three new books at the Irish Writers’ Centre. I was invited to send these new creations out into the world, and what a pleasurable task it was.

The window of the room where I write gives directly onto the narrow street outside. I like the comfort of seeing people walk past. It feels companionable, neighbourly.

Nuala’s fourth novel, Becoming Belle, has just been launched in both the US and Ireland.

What a summer it has been. And no, I don’t just mean the amazing weather that we’ve been having in Ireland for months now. The sort of weather that has made some of us long for a bit of rain, to remind us of who we really are…

I recently facilitated an eight-hour course in Creative Writing for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Libraries. Most of the participants had never written anything before. Some had, but had reached an impasse and were unable to work their way around it.

Easter has come and gone and it seems as though the winter is determined to hang on until it’s worn us all down to shreds. It’s just as well that this is Dublin’s One City One Book month – it means there are lots of indoor activities to dispel the gloom of grey skies and […]