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D.P. Strickland
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Writer. Book worshipper. UEA CW Alum. Listed: Fish, CFA Award, Desperate Lit. Ex-fundamentalist. Neurodivergent.
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Liadan Ní Chuinn’s first collection, ‘Every One Still Here’, is writing of great potency and subtlety, sensitivity and resonance, which carries the burdens of truth as perhaps only fiction can. Published in Ireland March @stingingfly.bsky.social, UK July @grantabooks.bsky.social.
Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn. The flying ants are everywhere. At a certain time of the day, at a certain time of the year, they are there when he tries to open the van's door, there falling down onto the seat. Felix has a brother-in-law who has eaten such ants. The brother-in-law catches them with his hands and with a net and Felix has a text from him this morning: Tough day for you mate tough news. Felix hasn't replied. The text is from his sister, really. There are flying ants walking across the dashboard. It's that time of year. July 2025 From a stunning new voice in Irish literature, a searing and powerful debut collection of singularly brilliant and distinctive stories. A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine's bones. Bouquets are found all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect a human body. Brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope. In this bravura debut collection, Liadan Ní Chuinn delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political. 'It's a long time since I've read a short story collection where I've felt such an aching tenderness for the people within its pages... These stories are rich. They have heart and weight. This is singular, controlled, dextrous writing from someone who is now one of my favourite writers' Wendy Erskine 'Here's a writer who knows how to swerve gracefully from the expected... Truly exciting' Lisa McInerney 'A phenomenal writer, with such a striking, distinctive style... Something new and startling is happening in this work' Danny Denton 'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary author... Ni Chuinn's incantatory sentences quiver like seismographs, registering the quakes and ruptures that can crack a life in two' Thomas Morris LIADAN NI CHUINN was born in the north of Ireland in 1998. Every One Still Here is their first book.
February 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM