
Interview with Niamh Donnelly, Sunday Business Post – “Her details are perfectly plucked, her images crystalline”

Interview: Stephen Glennon, Connaught Tribune
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Interview: Colette Sheridan, Cork Echo
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Interview: Paul Nolan, Hot Press Magazine
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Cork writer on her heralded debut novel, self-doubt and writing with autism, Interview with Martin Doyle
Such was the brilliance of Danielle McLaughlin’s 2015 debut short story collection, Dinosaurs on Other Planets, that expectation levels for her first novel were extremely high. Its long gestation – the novel’s conception dates back to a writing workshop with Nuala O’Connor in 2012 – must have added to the anxiety.
We need not have feared. The Art of Falling is exceptional, and critics are already falling over themselves to praise it. The text has such depth, it could have been sent to a 3D printer.
The novel is firmly anchored in the author’s native county. Her protagonist Nessa’s description of the light by the sea in west Cork as not soft but “glorious, razor-sharp and unsparing” is a perfect description of McLaughlin’s own writing.
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Writer in Residence UCC
The New Yorker ¦ This Week in Fiction: Danielle McLaughlin
Irish Times ¦ Dissecting Danielle McLaughlin: the inside story of her writers’ group
Marie Gethins has been in a writers’ group with Danielle McLaughlin for four years. She reveals its methods and secrets: ‘a stellar combination of brutal honesty and kindness’
It began with worms.
In the spring of 2011 I joined Lory Manrique-Hyland’s writing workshop held at the Munster Literature Centre. Over the following weeks I was impressed by the standard and diversity of pieces we workshopped, but one stood out. It featured worms. Yes, dead ones, but live ones as well. Their lifecycle skilfully underscored the dynamics between human characters, made a betrayal story fresh. The author was Danielle McLaughlin.
Interview by Short Fiction

Interview by Marie Gethins
