Tag Archives: essays

Switzerland, alcohol, autism, & me

Meiringen vintage poster

I have a new essay ‘Cailín Deas, Cailín Dána’ published in Trasna today. The essay is about many things, including Switzerland, sibling loss, autism, giving up alcohol, Maria Edgeworth, and photographs…it’s a braided/hybrid piece, a mixumgatherum. You can read the essay here. Hope you enjoy it!

Perimenopause essay

Emily Dickinson collage
by Juno McLoughlin

Nuala has a new essay about perimenopause (and hope!) in the new non-fiction journal from Bay Path University, Multiplicity Magazine. In ‘The Hope Cure – Negotiations with the Peri-fog’, she touches on everything from ee cummings to ‘The Shawshank Redemption’. You can read the essay here.

UPCOMING EVENTS 2020

Women of Yore Limerick

Nuala will take part in the Women of Yore Afternoon Tea in Limerick on 2nd February at One Pery Square. Music, literature, costume and cakes! Also appearing: Niamh Boyce, Rose Servitova, Melissa Shiels and more.

Nuala will read a new essay at an International Women’s Day event in Carrick-on-Shannon on the 8th March at 2.30pm. Dock Arts Centre.

Nuala will be taking part in a Historical Fiction event at Hodges Figgis, Dublin, on the 4th April. This is a free event. More details here.

Nuala is teaching a pre-festival Historical Flash Fiction workshop at Flash Fiction Festival UK on Friday 19th June. Book here.

She will also, as Editor of Splonk, take part in a panel at Flash Fiction Festival, on editing a flash journal, with Meg Pokrass.