Kit de Waal
author
Filming has begun in Birmingham on BBC One’s adaptation of Kit de Waal’s lauded debut novel. Produced by Douglas Road Productions (a Banijay UK company) in association with Tiger Aspect Productions, Ringside Studios and Vicarious Productions.
15th August CHARLOTTE SQUARE GARDENS, Edinburgh
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Filming has begun in Birmingham on BBC One’s adaptation of Kit de Waal’s lauded debut novel. Produced by Douglas Road Productions (a Banijay UK company) in association with Tiger Aspect Productions, Ringside Studios and Vicarious Productions.
EVENTS
AUTUMN 2021
5th October
venue TBA
26th Sept.
SOUTHBANK CENTRE, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX.
23rd Sept.
Readings in Aid of Crisis Birmingham
venue TBA
QUICK, ONLINE READS
A short story taken from Protest: Stories of Resistance.
Don’t dip your pen in someone else’s blood: writers and ‘the other’
Article from The Irish Times
Second Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2014.
My Irish grandmother was mistress of the stretch
Article from The Irish Times
I wanted to write about a care system that didn’t care very much
Article from The Guardian
A BURNING TIDE - Fingal County Council & The Irish Writers Centre
New writings to commemorate the burning of the coastguard cottages in 1921.
Watch the whole video or skip to 43 minutes in to see Niamh McCann's performance of Kit's story The Piano (runtime is approximately 17 minutes).
As part of Fingal County Council’s Commemorative Programme 2021, the Irish Writers Centre, in celebration of its 30th anniversary, has partnered with Fingal Arts Office to develop a commissioned programme of new writing that reimagines a moment in Fingal’s History, the burning of the coastguard cottages in 1921. New writing by Dermot Bolger, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ciara Ní É, Stephen Walsh, Kit de Waal and Enda Coyle-Greene will be filmed and screened on the beach in Loughshinny Harbour on Culture Night 2021.
PUBLISHED WORK
Capturing the extraordinary moments in our ordinary lives.
Best selling debut novel.
A valuable anthology of working-class writers.
INTERVIEWS, CONVERSATIONS AND MORE
READ - The Times Literary Supplement, Twenty Questions with Kit de Waal
READ - The Guardian, ‘I read my first novel aged 22’
WATCH - The Edinburgh International Book Festival, Kit de Waal with Damian Barr
READ - The Guardian, 'As soon as you introduce a talking horse, I'm just not interested'
READ - The Guardian, Interview - ‘Writing’s very solitary – you do it because you want to find readers’
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