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The Nerve Podcast
24. February 2021
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Writer Bernie McGill talks to Dr Jenny O’Connor at The Nerve podcast about what a typical day in her life is like, what it has meant to her to contribute to anthologies that highlight the work of women writers and how teaching keeps her awake at night. Listen here: https://www.wit.ie/news/humanities/podcast-the-nerve-ep-35-bernie-mcgill.
The Nerve is a podcast from the English Department of the Waterford Institute of Technology.
Bernie McGill’s novel The Watch House was nominated in 2019 for the Ireland/European Prize for Literature. Her first novel, The Butterfly Cabinet, was named by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes as his novel of the year in 2012.
Her short fiction has been nominated for several awards and in 2008, she won the Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Award in the United States. Sleepwalkers, her first collection of short stories, was shortlisted for the prestigious Edge Hill Prize in 2014. Bernie is a former Writing Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen’s University, Belfast and she is a mentor and workshop facilitator with the Irish Writers’ Centre.
Details
- Date:
- 24. February 2021
- Cost:
- Free
- Event Tags:
- author, award, Bernie McGill, book, Books, Edge Hill Prize, English Department, fiction, Historical fiction, interview, Ireland, Irish, Irish writing, Jenny O'Connor, Northern Ireland, Novel, podcast, short fiction, Short Stories, Sleepwalkers, The Butterfly Cabinet, The Nerve, The Watch House, Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT, Writer, Writers, writing
- Website:
- https://www.wit.ie/news/humanities/podcast-the-nerve-ep-35-bernie-mcgill
Venue
- Online
- United Kingdom
Organizer
- Waterford Institute of Technology
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