Writing from the Margins

Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi and Páraic Kerrigan join writer Aoife Martin in conversation about their own writing, and the challenges and obstacles faced by writers from minority groups when writing and publishing with mainstream press. Enyi-Amadi, a commissioned poet on the Poetry as Commemoration project, has also been published in The Art of the Glimpse, a short story anthology uniting classic works with neglected writers and marginalised voices. She also co-edited the Writing Home: The 'New Irish' Poets anthology. Kerrigan’s Reeling in the Queers (New Island) explores the lesser-known stories of the fight for LGBTQ rights since 1974. Illuminating fourteen distinct moments that map the changing social and cultural landscape of Ireland, the stories consider the gains, losses and devastations, and ultimately celebrate a strong community and its allies, speaking across the generations.

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