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Writer in Residence UCC

21st October 2018

motley-transparent-580x214Delighted to speak to Liz Hession of Motley about the position of UCC Writer in Residence 2018-2019 Read the piece in full here: newspaper-311272_960_720

The New Yorker ¦ This Week in Fiction: Danielle McLaughlin

29th November 2016

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By Cressida Leyshon

August 31, 2015

This week’s story, “In the Act of Falling,” is told from the perspective of a woman whose life is fraying. Her husband has lost his job; her nine-year-old son has been suspended from school; her house is too big and too expensive for the family’s reduced circumstances. Did you always know the point in her life at which the story would start?

No. In the earliest versions of the story, she didn’t exist at all. The story began as an urban apocalyptic one, and in place of the tennis net I had nets hanging above the streets of the Dublin city center to protect shoppers from birds that were falling from the sky in the thousands. There was a younger couple in that early version, but no child. The ducks were part of the story from the start; dead, of course—birds, animals, and insects tend not to fare too well in my fiction.

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Irish Times ¦ Dissecting Danielle McLaughlin: the inside story of her writers’ group

29th November 2016

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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.

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Interview by Short Fiction

22nd September 2016

capture-3 Danielle McLaughlin’s debut collection of short stories, Dinosaurs On Other Planets, was published in Ireland in 2015 by The Stinging Fly Press, in the UK in January 2016 by John Murray, and will be published in the US and Canada by Random House in August. She lives in County Cork with her husband and three young children. Read More

Interview by Marie Gethins

22nd September 2016

tss           Danielle McLaughlin’s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Irish Times, Southword, The Penny Dreadful, Long Story Short and The Stinging Fly and have also been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4. Her debut collection of short stories, Dinosaurs on Other Planets, was published in Ireland by The Stinging Fly Press in 2015 and in the UK by John Murrays in January 2016. Random House will publish it in the US in August 2016. Read More

Interview by Susanne Stich

22nd September 2016

Failures of Understanding and the Management of Time

Danielle McLaughlin’s debut short story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets (Stinging Fly Press, 2015) has been eagerly awaited. At the book’s Dublin launch earlier this month, acclaimed writer and Laureate for Irish Fiction Anne Enright remarked on ‘the intelligence rising in McLaughlin’s sentences like sap’, and called attention to the ‘completely realized worlds’ in these stories, which are ‘generous with both their pleasure and their pain’. When I met with Danielle McLaughlin on a beautiful autumn morning just before the launch she spoke to me in depth about her meticulous approach to craft, her ideas on time, the challenges of communication and her characters’ relationships. I even got a chance to ask her about her experiences with the prestigious New Yorker magazine.

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Through her acute and thoughtful take on issues of truth-telling, McLaughlin reminds us that the novel remains a good mode to investigate our relationship to truth, in part because as a made-up form it remains flexible in its idea of truth. The opening sentence of the novel is the motto from Jennifer’s school: “To be […]

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