LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEK INTERVIEW
I'm directing the Short Story Workshop at Listowel Writers' Week this year. They did a Q&A with me in advance. The first questions went as follows and the rest is here.
Q. Did you know from a young age that you would be a writer?
A. I was writing from a young age but I thought that writers were hallowed people with some inside knowledge of how to be a writer and get published and that I didn’t have that. I wanted to be a writer but didn’t think it was possible for ordinary people like me. My love of writing grew from my love of reading. I was reading from the age of three; my parents are book-lovers. Books were more important to me than anything as a kid. Coming second in a national poetry competition at the age of nine (with a poem in Irish about Travellers) gave me the confidence to keep writing. But I was in my late twenties before I knuckled down and got very serious about it all.
Q. Did you know from a young age that you would be a writer?
A. I was writing from a young age but I thought that writers were hallowed people with some inside knowledge of how to be a writer and get published and that I didn’t have that. I wanted to be a writer but didn’t think it was possible for ordinary people like me. My love of writing grew from my love of reading. I was reading from the age of three; my parents are book-lovers. Books were more important to me than anything as a kid. Coming second in a national poetry competition at the age of nine (with a poem in Irish about Travellers) gave me the confidence to keep writing. But I was in my late twenties before I knuckled down and got very serious about it all.
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