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Tag: Short Stories

Women’s Weird – Stunning short stories that fright (& fight) with their social commentary

13th November 201913th November 2019  Gabriela Frost

Melissa Edmundson’s short story collection, Women’s Weird, is full of literary greats such as Edith Wharton, May Sinclair and Edith Nesbit. Their stories are packed with ghosts, ghouls and weird occurrences, but, says Gabriela Frost, the most chilling aspect is the social treatment of women.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Allison Devers, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Handheld Press, horror, Kate Mcdonald, Kerfol, Mary Butts, May Sinclair, Melissa Edmundson, Richard Redgrave, Second Shelf, Short Stories, The Second Shelf, Women's Weird

Speaking from the Body: Trauma, Pregnancy and the Eighth Amendment in Contemporary Irish Writing

15th September 201915th September 2019  Laura Hackett

For women in Northern Ireland and a post-Repeal Republic telling stories which speak from the body and its traumas remains a powerful tool, argues Laura Hackett when considering the work of Sally Rooney, Lucy Caldwell, Sinéad Gleeson and others.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Abortion, Anna Burns, Being Various, Constellations, Conversations with Friends, Eimear McBride, Fiction, Ireland, Irish Literature, Lucy Caldwell, Milkman, Normal People, Novel, Pan Macmillan, Rebecca O'Connor, Sally Rooney, Savita Halappanavar, Short Stories, Short Story, Sinéad Gleeson, The Eighth Amendment, The Lesser Bohemians
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