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Bernie McGill is the author of two novels: The Watch House (nominated for the Ireland European Union Prize for Literature in 2019) and The Butterfly Cabinet (2010). Her collection of short stories, Sleepwalkers, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2014. Her work has been published in the UK, the US and in translation in Italy and the Netherlands. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies Belfast Stories, The Long Gaze Back, The Glass Shore and Female Lines. Her work has been placed in the Seán Ó Faoláin, the Bridport, and the Michael McLaverty Short Story Prizes and she won the Zoetrope:All-Story Award in the US in 2008.
Bernie was Writing Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund at Queen’s University, Belfast from 2018-2020. She is a Professional Mentor with the Irish Writers Centre and works as a Writer in Schools with Poetry Ireland. www.berniemcgill.com
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Jane McComb
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