Out There, By William Keohane

How do you make a life in an unliveable present, when the path to change is impossibly slow?

Gender transition doesn’t happen in a clinic, nor does it unfold in a straight line. For William Keohane, it is a journey mapped across words, names, and the Irish landscape. As Will navigates the endless waiting for referrals, appointments, hormones, and surgery, he compassionately charts the many people and places that have shaped his life—both with their love and their willingness to change alongside him. At once sparkling and meditative, with prose of undeniable eddying force, Out There is a universal reflection on transformation and becoming, which asks just how much has to change before we’re seen as who we are.

William Keohane is a writer from Limerick. His essays have been published in The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review, among others. Boxing Day, a poetry performance, has toured internationally. William is currently completing a PhD in Poetry at Queen's University Belfast. 'Out There' is his first book.

Manuela Moser is Festival Director of Cúirt International Festival of Literature, and a founding editor of The Lifeboat Press. Her poetry has appeared The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review and Banshee, and her debut pamphlet was published by Bad Betty Press.

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