discovery Archives - Helen Walsh

Want To Join Me In Dublin’s Fair City?

By Helen WalshPosted on June 24, 2022Posted in LetterboxTagged city, discovery, Dublin, events, Film Festival, helen walsh, Hodges Figgis, Ireland, publishing, pull focus, thrillers, travel

The Dublin book launch of Pull Focus, postponed last fall due to Ireland’s strict Covid lockdowns, has been rescheduled for July 12th. I’m entirely delighted. As readers of this newsletter know, I hold dual Canadian and Irish citizenship, and have spent a lot of time in Ireland over the years, visiting friends and family (and my father’s grave, who’s buried in his hometown of Mallow alongside my grandparents). I also partially wrote Pull Focus during two residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie at Annaghmakerrig, […]

Toronto International Festival of Authors – Oct 22nd, 3:30-4:30pm

By Helen WalshPosted on October 22, 2021Posted in EventsTagged city, discovery, helen walsh, publishing, pull focus, thrillers

Toxic Truths: Lola Akinmade Åkerström & Helen Walsh Join us for this free, virtual event October 22 at 3:30pm. Registration HERE. Tune in to an engaging talk with authors Lola Akinmade Åkerström and Helen Walsh about their powerful debut novels, exploring important social issues, from racism, classism and fetishization; to contemporary feminism and toxic masculinity in the #MeToo age. In Nigerian-American writer and photographer Lola Akinmade Åkerström’s In Every Mirror She’s Black, three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build new lives in the most open society run by […]

My Own Private Edinburgh. Here’s My Journey of Discovery.

By Helen WalshPosted on July 25, 2021Posted in LetterboxTagged discovery, journey

In a normal year, mid-July would find me busily preparing for my journey to Edinburgh. I’d be readying to get up at 3:15 am (8:15 am BT) to buy my Book Festival tickets as soon as the box office opened. Scour @lyngardner’s Twitter feed for Fringe Festival suggestions. Pour over the International Festival catalogue for opera and theatre choices. This year, for the second time, I’ll join some events by Zoom. But I long for the journey of personal discovery that my days wandering that […]