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In Ireland, we are due to vote on Friday on whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. This piece of text was introduced in 1983 by secretive, right-wing, Catholic pressure groups who exerted all the leverage they could on the government and the people in an attempt to copperfasten the Constitution against any […]

 I do not generally consider myself a blind man, rather one with full sensory function who is hampered by living in an invisible universe which keeps banging into him and reminding him of its irritating reality as he goes about his day to day life. – “Sight Reading” I just learned – through the time honoured […]

Re: This sniggering article by Patrick McCabe comparing our struggle to better women’s bodily autonomy, health and life by removing the 8th Amendment to Brexit, Trump et. al. Patrick McCabe, if you are reading this, be aware that you do NOT represent the majority of novelists in Ireland. You speak for yourself alone. You are […]

(for anyone who is interested.) A few people might be occasionally wondering, “whatever happened to Susan Lanigan? She wrote that book way back in 2014, then ranted a lot on twitter about stuff and then…nothing. Must have given up on the writing.” They might, if they are charitable, add, “Good read, that book. Pity she […]

Hello friends, I know it’s been a while. I wrote a short story I’d love to share with you all for Christmas. It’s a piece of historical fiction but with relevance for today. I hope it provides some comfort and peace of mind, particularly to American readers but really for everyone. Please share far and […]

Elizabeth Murray has come up with this Twitter hashtag as a way of checking in with other authors working on first drafts. I have some time at the moment to work away on my own first draft so am making use of the hashtag on Twitter. I will try to blog bits about it, but this […]

Greetings all, Have you got a desire to write and want to take it further? Interested in a one-day writing course run by a novelist and short story writer shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year and the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award? If so I will be running an intensive writing workshop in […]

I’ve just had a wonderful Friday night and Saturday down in Enniscorthy at the Wexford Literary Festival, at the invitation of its organiser, novelist Carmel Harrington. I can heartily recommend it for aspiring and working authors. I came down on the Friday by train and stayed in the most wonderful, peaceful guesthouse a short distance from […]

Tomorrow I hope to blog about the wonderful time I had at the Wexford Literary Festival. But tonight I want to make a quick note about an utter stuff-up I just made on Goodreads while browsing with my Kindle. There is some bug in Kindle Fire that makes the keypad jump around and type nonsense. […]

Hello all, here is where I make a foray into the world of science fiction! Pleased to announce that To Shape The Dark, an anthology of feminist science fiction compiled and edited by Athena Andreadis and featuring my Chekhovesque (well I can only hope!) story “Ward 7”, is being welcomed to the world on 1st […]