Shapechangers: 1960s Irish Women Reflect on their Writing Lives

In Shapechangers, editor Nessa O'Mahony has compiled a truly comprehensive and representative collection of women writers born in the 1960s, in this sister collection to the critically-acclaimed bestseller Look! It's a Woman Writer!

This anthology contains over 25 authors who write as Gaeilge agus as Bearla, from the whole island and the wider diaspora, writers who practice in multiple forms of poetry and multiple forms of fiction, playwriting, literary criticism, songwriting, filmmaking, children's and young adult literature and creative non-fiction. These are all established, highly-respected and well-qualified writers.

Collectively, these vivid and original essays provide us with a fascinating picture of Ireland's literary landscape from multiple female points of view. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in how Ireland finally began to value the voices of women.

Here is, in their own words, the story of the women who are the way-pavers of modern and post-modern Irish literature.