by NiallBourke | Jan 9, 2022 | Reviews
Michael McLaverty Short Story Award Winners Announced Niall Bourke from Kilkenny has won the prestigious Linen Hall Michael McLaverty Short Story Award for his story ‘The Catch’. The two runners-up are Sadhbh Moriarty for ‘Saint Caillín and The Carwash’ and Dawn...
by NiallBourke | Jul 7, 2021 | Reviews
Author Niall Bourke explores why we turn to books about disaster to find some solace in life. First pubished on thejournal.ie May 1st 2021, 2:30 PM 8,226 Views 10 Comments Niall Bourke IT MAY SEEM strange to seek solace by imaging the worst, yet that is often what...
by NiallBourke | Apr 17, 2021 | Reviews
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 down to my first book I didn’t know what I was doing. For some months previous I had been conducting...
by NiallBourke | Apr 17, 2021 | Reviews
Note about the Inspire conference and anthology ‘Inspire: Exciting Ways of Being Creative’ was a conference hosted online by Goldsmiths’ Centre for Language, Culture and Learning, on 15th and 16th April 2021, 9.30am-4.15pm. The conference explored...
by NiallBourke | Apr 6, 2021 | Reviews
‘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 live and die waiting. The author tells Niamh Donnelly about his own wait to get his debut published...
by NiallBourke | Mar 3, 2021 | Reviews
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 Press in April 2021. The publishers describe Niall’s new work as high concept speculative...