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Shirley-Anne McMillan is an author of contemporary Young Adult fiction. She lives in Co Down with her family where she writes, tutors, and works in the local Integrated school as an Alternative Chaplain. Shirley-Anne's third novel, Every Sparrow Falling, will be published by Atom in 2019.

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An Féileacán agus an Rí – The Butterfly and the King

Shirley-Anne McMillan Mar 24, 2020 0

An Féileacán agus an Rí – The Butterfly and the King at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Belfast Myra Zepf is a well known Irish children’s writer by now. Most recently her teen novel, Nóinín, was shortlisted for this year’s KPMG…

Literature

Women Across Borders

Shirley-Anne McMillan Mar 22, 2020 0

Women Across Borders – Irish Writers Centre 7th March 2020 Women Across Borders is the Irish Writers Centre’s International Women’s Day event in conjunction with Women Aloud NI. Although I had been aware of it in previous years, I had…

Literature

Once Alien Here– A John Hewitt Society Book Launch

Shirley-Anne McMillan Mar 17, 2020 0

John Hewitt was a Belfast poet and political activist who famously described his identity as Ulster, Irish, British and European. That’s how I feel my own identity as well; I was born into a Protestant family and told I was British, then,…

Theatre

Why do the Irish love Lorca? A review of Nostalgia

Shirley-Anne McMillan Mar 7, 2020 0

A‘I want to sleep just a moment, A moment, a minute, a century. But let it be known that I have not died…’ Federico Garcia Lorca I spent last year chasing the Spanish writer Garcia Lorca across the world;…

Literature

Irish Writers Centre Open Day

Shirley-Anne McMillan Feb 12, 2020 0

With so many people making their New Year’s Resolution to finally get writing or to write every day, January is a great time for a writing centre to have their Open Day. The IrishWriters Centre has a lot to show off. Apart from all the…

Culture

Nollaig na nBam – an Irish Writers Centre event at the Irish Emigration Museum

Shirley-Anne McMillan Feb 6, 2020 0

Like Hilary Copeland from the Irish Writers Centre, I grew up North of the border knowing nothing of the Irish language and much less about traditions like that of Nollaig na nBam, where, after the madness of Christmas, women had a night…

Culture

TenX9: A Night of Storytelling in Belfast

Shirley-Anne McMillan Feb 4, 2020 0

Tenx9 is a storytelling night where nine people each have ten minutes to tell a true story from their own life. Founded in 2011 by Paul Doran and Pádraig Ó Tuama, the regular Belfast event has become so popular that it has spread to…

Literature

Irish Writers Centre Members Christmas Party December 2019

Shirley-Anne McMillan Dec 15, 2019 0

The Christmas party for members of the Irish Writers centre in Dublin was a delight. I am a big fan of wine and nibbles, but also of evenings full of excellent writing, not to mention the opportunity to read my own work. There was nothing…

Irish Writers Centre

Abomination: A DUP Opera – Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Shirley-Anne McMillan Dec 9, 2019 0

Congratulations to the cast and crew of Abomination who have won the Best Opera Production in the 23rd Irish Times Theatre Awards. The production was filmed live at the Lyric Theatre and is now available to view on the Queen's Film Theatre…

Poetry

DeptCon5 – IWC Writers Residency

Shirley-Anne McMillan Oct 28, 2019 0

Like almost everything brilliant in the world, Deptcon, Ireland’s biggest Young Adult fiction convention, is a simple idea, executed very well. Over the course of two days young people gather to see new and well-known YA authors in a series…

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