Most of the stories were published previously, but I reworked them for the collection. The most recent one was written in 2017 – completely new, it hasn’t been published before – so it’s almost 30 years of work. I wrote the first one in 1989 and it was published the following year in the Sunday Tribune. So, it somehow covers a good stretch of your development. I suggest we focus on Shift, your most recent book, as I understand it is a collection of short stories, which has accompanied you from the moment you set out to write till last year. Hedwig Schwall: Thanks for taking time for this interview. Mia was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence with the Leuven Centre of Irish Studies in March 2019. In 2018, she was elected as a member of Aosdána, an affiliate of Irish artists recognised for their contribution to Irish culture and society. She has received several Literature Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland and is a contributing editor to The Stinging Fly. Mia has also worked as a theatre artist, touring nationally in Ireland and travelling to the Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, France and the UK. In 2019, she was invited to deliver the annual Bray Literary Lecture in partnership with The Stinging Fly. In 2020, she was commissioned by the Ennis Book Club Festival to curate an exhibition of artworks from the Arts Council of Ireland’s permanent collection and write a story, “Relict”, in response to the works. Mia’s reviews, articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Stinging Fly and Circa, and she reviews books regularly for Arena, RTE Radio’s arts show. Recent publications, published in 2020, include Kaleidoscope II (EFACIS), Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature (Cambridge Scholars), and fiction anthologies The Art of the Glimpse (Head of Zeus), The Music of What Happens (New Island) and The Globe and Scales (Marrowbone Books). In 2016 Mia guest-edited the Fear & Fantasy issue of The Stinging Fly. Mia’s stories have also appeared as chapbooks: Relict (Ennis Book Club Festival, 2020), Quasimodo (Spolia, 2014) and You First (South Tipperary Arts, 2005). Shift (New Island, 2018), a collection of her award-winning short fiction, was longlisted for the 2019 Edge Hill Prize and shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Book Awards.

Mia Gallagher is the critically acclaimed author of two novels, HellFire (Penguin, 2006), awarded the Irish Tatler Literature Award 2007, and Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland (New Island, 2016), longlisted for the 2016 Republic of Consciousness Award. I'm sorry I didn't post this sooner, as I know lots of kids have already started school, but.maybe this will still be helpful.Shift metamorfosis fluidez de género David Lynch lo siniestro olor y piel realismo mágico.

I thought I'd share the titles we have from the library right now. So, we've been reading books about starting school. I was really worried about how moving to a new home would affect her.but she totally surprised me and handled the change significantly better than both my husband and I did! A couple of weeks before we moved, I found a bunch of books about moving at the library and we read them often. She will only be going two half-days a week, but it will be her first time ever really being away from me (or Daddy or grandparents).and I'm a little nervous to see how it goes. The next big thing on my family's radar is Mia starting Preschool in a week. We moved in the first part of June and we are feeling like we are still getting settled. It's been over three months since my last blog post. She is the first author I suggest when library patrons ask for picture book recommendations. They are wonderful books for both children and adults. If you haven't Rosemary Wells' books, then I suggest you do so.immediately! The stories and illustrations in her books work perfectly together and are funny and sweet. She was impressed to meet a fan with some of her oldest books. I was able to hear Rosemary Wells speak at a children's literature conference several years ago and I was thrilled to meet her and have her autograph some of my mother's books from the early 1980's. I love reading books that I loved as a child to MY child. I was in heaven! I started collecting the titles that my mom didn't have and now I have quite a collection for Mia. I was introduced to her by my mother, who loved her work and read to me and my sister.ĭecades later, when I started working at the library, I discovered her other books that I hadn't known as a kid. I have loved Rosemary Wells' children's books for almost my entire life.

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