ART OF THE SHORT STORY - BELFAST BOOK FESTIVAL

The Art of the Short Story, Thurs 8 June, 6.30pm – £7 | £5 Crescent Arts Centre at Belfast Book Festival with me, Jan Carson, June Caldwell & Oisín Ó Fágáin.

SMOKELONG GUEST EDITING & IT IN PRAISE OF...

Belfast was a blast - it was brilliant to read with Henrietta McKervey, super stylish and clever writer that she is. Also to meet up with old friend and fantastic writer/editor Mary-Jane Holmes. I'm flat out since I got back writing promo articles. Lovely things have been happening PR wise for Miss Emily - my PR teams in Penguin Canada and Penguin USA have been generating lots of reviews and features for publication time (5 weeks!).

Two nice things happened while I was away. I began my week of guest editing with Smokelong Quarterly and they published an interview with me which is here. You can sub through their site here.

Also Cathy Dillon in the Irish Times did an In Praise Of... piece on me which I was thrilled about. You may remember I did one on Anne Enright a while back.

So, all is busy-ness and organised chaos. Which, if I'm honest, I love. Better that than chewing my fingernails and watching telly.

IRISH NEWS Q&A

Brian Campbell interviewed me for today's Irish News ahead of my appearance, with Henrietta McKervey at next week's Belfast Book Festival. It's not available online, so I took a couple of (cruddy) pics of the piece. Click to enlarge and read  :)