Bernie McGill
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Sleepwalkers by Bernie McGill back in print, republished by No Alibis Press
No Alibis Bookshop 83 Botanic Avenue, BELFAST, United KingdomBernie McGill's first short story collection, Sleepwalkers, originally published by Whittrick Press and shortlisted for the prestigious Edge Hill Prize in 2014, has been republished by Belfast's No Alibis Press. This republication includes the short story 'Waiting for Joseph', originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Short Works series. Bernie's second short story collection, This Train is For, also published by No Alibis Press, won the Edge Hill Prize in 2023. Reviews for Sleepwalkers: 'Bernie McGill is one of Ireland's great storytellers.' Ian Sansom 'These stories are bursting with emotional life, whether the dark swirl of grief to the most potent sensuality. Women deftly navigate their self-definition against the violent past and the hopeful future.' Caroline Magennis in the Irish Times ‘McGill’s plotting is masterful. These are “killer-blow” stories but carefully guards against sensationalism. Her talent for combining keen observation with a kind of symbolic import is evident. Everything is very precisely described, and yet, more unusually, there is a lyric quality to the description. McGill herself brings not only an awareness of literature, but a poetic sensibility to how she layers her short stories as a poet would layer an image – conscious that meaning is ambiguous, contradictory, polyvalent.’ Tess […]
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Mary Beckett: A Belfast Woman at Look North! Festival at the Linen Hall Library
Linen Hall Library, Belfast 17 Donegall Square North, Belfast, United KingdomBorn in 1926, Mary Beckett is regarded as one of Belfast's finest writers. Widely acclaimed for her novels and short stories, especially A Belfast Woman, A Literary Woman and Give Them Stones, her work did much to capture and explore the lives and experiences of women, especially working-class women. To mark the centenary of her birth, The Linen Hall Library in partnership with Look North!, brings together two acclaimed Belfast writers, Anne Devlin and Wendy Erskine, to talk about Beckett’s work and her enduring legacy. This session will be chaired by award-winning novelist and short story writer, Bernie McGill. Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. This event will be hosted by The Linen Hall Library, Belfast on 25th February at 1pm. Tickets £5. Booking details here.
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Writing Workshop at Ballyscullion Park, Bellaghy with Bernie McGill
Ballyscullion Park 61 Ballyscullion Road, Bellaghy, Derry, United KingdomWriting Workshop: Setting and Place with Bernie McGill at Ballyscullion Park, Bellaghy Saturday, 28th February 2026 10.30am – 3.30pm with a break for lunch* Join writer Bernie McGill for a one-day workshop at Ballyscullion Park on the beautiful shores of Lough Beg. The workshop will focus on writing about setting and place. This will be a practical and participative workshop with the aim of developing existing work or sparking new ideas. Prompts and exercises will take inspiration from the garden and surrounds. All levels of experience are welcome from published writers to first-timers, poets and fiction writers alike. Participants will have the option to find a spot outdoors in the walled garden, weather permitting, and to write indoors in the historic 18th century stable block. Come with writing materials, prepared to write. Bernie McGill is a novelist and short story writer and the winner of the 2023 Edge Hill Prize for her short story collection This Train is For. She is a Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund and an Honorary member of the Linen Hall Library in which building her writing archive is held. Her work has been widely anthologised and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 […]
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