On this month’s episode Nicole is joined by Niamh Boyce to read from and discuss her story ‘We Can’t Have Artists Losing Their Tempers’ published in Issue 54 Volume Two of The Stinging Fly magazine.
In their conversation Nicole and Niamh talk about séances, the limitations, restrictions, and freedoms of writing historical fiction, and how individual voices and stories can sometimes splinter off from larger writing projects.
Niamh Boyce writes poetry, short fiction and novels. In her novels, she has fictionalized real-life criminal trials. The Herbalist, set in her home town, won Debut of the Year at The Irish Book Awards and was long listed for an IMPAC. It was also an inaugural Irish Writers Center Novel Fair winner. Her Kind was based on the Kilkenny Witchcraft Trial and nominated for the EU Prize for Literature. An award-winning poet, Niamh Boyce was Hennessy XO New Irish Writer Of The Year. Her poetry collection was highly commended in The Patrick Kavanagh Award. She was a 2024 Writer in Residence in the Centre Cultural in Paris. She lives in the Irish midlands where she is working on a new novel, and a short story collection.
Nicole Flattery is a writer and critic. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time, was published by The Stinging Fly and Bloomsbury in 2019. Her novel, Nothing Special, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023. Her new novel Everything is Nice, Everything is Lovely will be published by Jonathan Cape in May 2027.
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