Anamaría Crowe Serrano
Anamaría’s novel In The Dark was widely publicised in print, digital and radio media:
In this interview in the Irish Independent Anamaría discusses her family history, and how it influenced her writing of the novel.
She wrote this article for The Irish Times, reflecting on the nature of the historical novel.
Her article in Books Ireland Magazine explores the complexities of the Spanish Civil War as they were depicted in the novel.
Writer Shauna Gilligan discussed In The Dark with Anamaría as part of her Writer’s Chat blog.
Anamaría was interviewed about In The Dark by Miriam O’Callaghan on the flagship RTE Radio One Programme Sunday with Miriam.
In this video clip with Pinnocchio Magazine Anamaría discusses the novel in the context of her cultural background and reads from the novel.
Liz McSkeane
Liz’s article The Challenge and Charm of the Short Story, which was published on the writing.ie website in October 2022, reflects on the key elements of the genre, its strengths and challenges, and aspects of the dynamic which make the greatest impact on the reader.
This article, The Long and Winding Road of Independent Publishing was featured in Books Ireland in February, 2021. It discusses the journey of Turas Press as a vehicle for self-publishing, to publishing the work of other writers, as well as some of the pitfalls encountered along the way, and some strategies for navigating them.
In January 2021, writing.ie published an article by Liz about the first four years of Turas Press.
The Goethe Institut, Dublin, has partnered with community radio station Near FM to create Hiberno Goethe, a radio magazine programme exploring artistic and cultural connections between Germany and Ireland. In June, 2022, Liz chatted to Ciarán Murray about writing, language, Beckett’s connection with Germany, and other topics.
The vibrant Eat the Storms weekly poetry podcast, produced and hosted by Damien Donnelly, featured Liz as one of six poets reading from their work in August, 2022.
Liz was featured in a 2021 episode of the Words Lightly Spoken podcast, reading Fernweg Tango, one of the poems from her collection Learning to Tango (Turas Press, 2019).
In October 2018, Totally Dublin interviewed Liz about her writing and her new publishing company, Turas Press.
Lagan Online’s September 2017 issue included a feature on Turas Press.
In January 2021, writing.ie published an article by Liz about the first four years of Turas Press.
Fiona Perry
The Honest Ulsterman
Fiona discusses how and why she began writing in this 2024 interview in The Honest Ulsterman.
Writing.ie
In her 2020 article in writing.ie, Fiona explains how she came to write poetry
https://www.writing.ie/resources/writing-poetry-alchemy-by-fiona-perry/
Jo Burns
Rob McLennan’s interview with Jo (October 16th, 2018) gives interesting insights into Jo’s creative process. It is on Rob McLennan’s Blog
Christine Murray
Christine revised her collection Her Red Songs while recovering from a serious heart attach. This Irish Times article describes how the process contributed to her healing.
In this Irish Times article, Christine explains the creative process underpinning her writing Gold Friend (Turas Press, 2021)
The Irish Times (Friday, October 19th 2018) published an article by Christine about the development and creation of bind.
Darren Donohue
Darren in the Media
To hear Darren discussing his poetry and playwriting work, check out this interview with Nickey Brennan on Community Radio, Kilkenny City, 18th December 2021: https://bit.ly/3MNl5tc
In April, the Kildare Nationalist did a feature in anticipation of the launch of Secret Poets
https://kildare-nationalist.ie/2022/04/06/newbridge-man-to-launch-debut-poetry-collection/
Emma McKervey