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Tag: Short Stories

‘Three Wise Women’ by Irenosen Okojie

25th May 202022nd October 2020  Irenosen Okojie

In her latest work of creative non-fiction, award-winning author Irenosen Okojie explores the rich legacy of hope and life handed down through her mother and grandmother. In hauntingly beautiful prose, Okojie reflects on how past events can offer light and healing in present times of difficulty.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Butterfly Fish, Caine Prize for African Writing, creative non-fiction, Dialogue Books, Elitsa Dermendzhiyska, essay, Irenosen Okojie, Jacaranda Books, Nudibranch, Short Stories, Speak Gigantular, Three Wise Women, Unbound

‘The Go-Get-Gone’ by Judy Darley

1st May 202017th May 2020  Judy Darley

Amanda is out for the night with her new school mate, Lea. But when her so-called friends – an assortment of symptoms from her Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) – turn up, she finds it hard to determine who and what is real.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fiction, Judy Darley, Night / Shift, nightclub culture, Nightclubs, Short Stories, Short Story, Teenagers, The Go-Get-Gone

Stories to Stockpile: Books to soothe, inspire & entertain during self-isolation

26th March 202029th April 2020  Lucy Writers

In these difficult, uncertain times, we’re turning to books for consolation, comfort and creative inspiration. Here are our writers’ suggestions for reading during self-isolation.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Annabel Banks, Becky Chambers, Books, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Cygnet, Dialogue Books, Dialogue Books Lounge, Edith Pattou, Edward carey, Eimear McBride, Elizabeth Goudge, Exercises in Control, Faber, Fantasy, Irenosen Okojie, JD Salinger, Little, Millie Seaward, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Nudibranch, Patsy, Philip Pulman, Season Butler, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Stories to Stockpile, Ursula K Le Guin, Yukiko Motoya

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

13th November 201929th January 2020  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, Night / Shift, 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 201922nd May 2020  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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