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Without Warning

& Only Sometimes

​Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood

A childhood memoir set to become a classic.

'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read.' - Marian Keyes

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Issue 20:  Beginnings And Endings

Featuring: Kit de Waal  – discussing the power of diverse voices with  Iole Dexter, Insight – Writers Helping Writers, with experts Elen Sentier and Davon and Greene and in The Big Debate Hema Macherla explores Mother Tongue vs Chosen Tongue.

 

Write On! 21 is out on 26 June.

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SEE Write On! Issue 20 HERE

LATEST UPLOADS

Kit is now represented by Peter Strauss at London-based literary

agency RCW.  Contact details are on the contact page and in the footer.

Interview for WriteOn! Audio Weekly

AQA YouTube Channel  - RUN TIME: 6:64

AQA YouTube Channel. AUDIO ONLY  - RUN TIME: 3:52

National Centre for Writing You Tube channel. AUDIO ONLY  - RUN TIME: 47:51

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In Dubai

February 2023

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With the wonderful @wonder_woman_73

December 2022

From
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2022

Pay what you can to watch online.
Available to watch any time.

INTERVIEWS, CONVERSATIONS & MORE

Making Dad's Fruitcake with
Dean O'Loughlin. For Headline Books

Masterclass by Kit de Waal

The Art of Trespass. From The National Creative Writing Graduate Fair

In conversation with Lisa Blower
Bridport Literary Festival 2022
In conversation with Russell Kane
Kit de Waal chats to Holly Newson
for Audible UK

​READ -  The Business Post (Ireland) interview

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​READ - The Independent, Ireland memoir review

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READ - The Times Literary Supplement, Twenty Questions with Kit de Waal

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READ - Toast Magazine Book Club, memoir

READ - The Irish Times ‘Never swear, kiss a boy or moan’ 

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WATCH - Munster Literary Centre, In conversation with Paul Mcveigh and Niahm Campbell

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READ - The Sunday Independent memoir extract

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READ - The Aesthetic Memoir/Lily Dunn Interview

PODCAST APPEARANCES
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​Running time: 34 min.

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THE BETTER MAN

with Alex Myers

Episode #14

Running time: 1hr

Episode #44

Running time: 1hr 24 min.

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with Damian Barr

Running time: 44 min

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​Running time: 1hr

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with Elizabeth Day

Running time: 58 min

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​Running time: 35 min

QUICK,
ONLINE
READS
written by Kit

My Irish grandmother...

Article from The Irish Times

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Article:  My Favourite   

Books Ireland Magazine

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Exterior Paint  

A short story  Resistance.

 

I Am the Painter's Daughter  

​Flash Fiction.

OTHER PUBLISHED WORK

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Supporting Cast

Capturing the extraordinary moments in our ordinary lives.

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My Name Is Leon

Best selling debut novel.

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The Trick to Time

"Heroically ordinary."

- Financial Times

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Common People

A valuable anthology of working-class writers. 

COLLABORATIONS & OTHER WORK

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Co-founder

Primadonna Festival

FIND OUT MORE

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Member

The Black Writers' Guild

FIND OUT MORE

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Writer in Residence

University of Leicester

“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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