The debut books and authors to look out for in 2019
We asked some writers to tell us about their debuts ahead of their publication
Blindboy Boatclub book: A mixed plastic bag of mad ideas
This debut collection is big on creativity but, overall, short on satisfaction
New fiction review: Room Little Darker by June Caldwell
It is fifty shades darker as submissive sex and rubber-clad gimps vie for attention
New fiction: Joanna Walsh’s short story collection
In ‘Vertigo’, the writer highlights familiar worlds as they are about to fracture
Giving voice to the short story in ‘a sad, twisted melancholy sort of night’
Anne Enright champions short-story writers at Galway International Arts Festival
Claire-Louise Bennett on writing Pond
‘I began to write – not to make sense of things, the opposite in fact. I wrote in order to keep rationality and purpose at bay, to prolong and bask in the rhythmic chaos of existence, and luxuriate in the magnificent mystery of everything’
Michael Longley shortlisted for $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize
Seven Irish authors longlisted for 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; Ruth Frances Long wins Best Creator of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy
Claire-Louise Bennett’s exquisite words and dark thoughts
Bennett’s form-twisting debut collection, Pond, is daring, intense and exhilarating
Sara Baume: ‘I actually hate writing. It’s really hard’
The winner of the 2014 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award gave herself two years to write her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither. But she remains torn between fiction and visual art
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