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Econo-fi: a new science-fiction Niall Bourke, author of Line, on why economics poses a threat to us all The Irish Times Thu, Apr 8, 2021, 12:12 Niall Bourke When I sat...

Note about the Inspire conference and anthology 'Inspire: Exciting Ways of Being Creative' was a conference hosted online by Goldsmiths' Centre for Language, Culture...

‘I’m not afraid to just write, experiment, have a bit of fun’ ‘Line’ is a novel with a premise that feels at once appalling and darkly familiar, where the characters...

Big thanks to Maeve Mulrennan for her interview, which you can read over at The Honest Ulsterman - or below. Niall Bourke’s début novel Line will be published by Tramp...

Panenka – Rónán Hession (Bluemoose Books, May 2021). A celebration of the things other novels often avoid – and all the better for it. A wise man recently told me there...

My story 'The Erection Specialists' was published in The Honest Ulsterman on 22nd September 2020 - and if you are interested you can read it here.   It is entirely...

Some of what I've been reading this year in no particular order: Tennis Lessons (Susannah Dickey - Doubleday): Equal parts funny and poignant, it chronicles a young...

With the U.K sitting in 18th position in the latest Pisa rankings, and the predictable furore about whether this is a justification or indictment of recent educational...

When Labour’s Angela Rayner announced she would scrap Ofsted, I was surprised she was met with such widespread opposition. I mean, I expected some dissenting voices...

One thing I’ve been asked regularly at readings and events (well, by ‘regularly’ I mean ‘more than once’) is how emerging poets can go about building up to getting...