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writing novels & short stories This Is How It Happens @newyorkermag BRIGHT I BURN~RSL Encore Prize Shortlist THE ISLAND CHILD @aaknopf @canongatebooks

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www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/this-is-how-it-happens-fiction-molly-aitken buythebook.online/bright-i-burn www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programmes/programme/29541-social-media-for-writers substack.com/@mollyaitken?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=18p56q forms.gle/cjXu76WLBxC7ygJ66

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When I first published my short story, 'This Is How It Happens' in @newyorkermag I did not make a post to sing about it. I felt I should only post if I could offer something of value to other writers. I forgot that the writing can be enough. Many of you have already told me this so thank you. I really must thank my first readers @ma.apostrophe.suma.amiri for her invaluable first notes. @lucyrosecreates for telling me this story is about male affection. And of course the close reading extraordinaire @jennymustard who also sent me these gorgeous photos when I could not buy a copy anywhere in mu city. Also thanks to @jonlemay for making the audio recording such a dream and @hachetteaudio for letting us use your Sheffield recording studio. The incredible photo, which was taken in Oregon, is by @willfujiomatsuda And my family for being so supportive and loving and providing me with so many stories (not least this one). 27 Jul 2026

I can hardly believe that I get to do an event in Kilkenny two years after publishing my novel about Alice Kyteler, and with one of my favourite writers @anyabergmanwriter November 1st 1.30pm Kilkenny Castle Parade Tower See Toil and Trouble Festival website for 🎟 Seven hundred years ago, a Kilkenny woman was condemned as a witch. The records that survive were written by the men who prosecuted her. Alice Kyteler's own voice is nowhere in them. Bright I Burn gives it back to her. Molly Aitken's novel, a New Yorker and BBC Best Book of 2024, and shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Prize, imagines Alice from the inside: an innkeeper's daughter who took over her father's trade and grew it, built a fortune in a city that had no place for a wealthy woman, married four times and outlived three husbands, and found that the gossip trailing her money could harden, in the end, into a charge that carried a death sentence. In this intimate reading and conversation in the Parade Tower at Kilkenny Castle, hosted by novelist Anya Bergman, Aitken brings medieval Kilkenny to life and opens up the questions underneath the story. How does a community decide that one of its own has become dangerous? What is the difference between a woman with power and a woman to be feared? And what does it take to recover a voice that history worked hard to erase? Aitken grew up on the south coast of Ireland. Her debut novel, The Island Child, was longlisted for the Authors' Club First Novel Award. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, where it won the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, Banshee and been dramatised for BBC Radio 4. She writes about Alice as both novelist and researcher, and she does it here in the city where Alice lived and traded. Anya Bergman is the Irish author of international bestsellers The Witches of Vardø - raising the lost voices of women accused in Norway's Finnmark witch trials - and The Tarot Reader of Versailles. She has been shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Anya comes to Alice's city as a reader of trial records herself. 06 Oct 2026

Week one of writing a novel in just under 3 months. As a discovery writer I am still not sure how doable this is. But I am keen to try. 24 Sep 2026

Social media for writers - online taster session with Molly Aitken and Anna Caig Monday 14 December at 7pm UK time - on Zoom Social media can feel daunting for many writers, but it doesn’t have to. Ahead of their gentle social media for writers weekend course at Hawkwood in January 2027, authors Molly Aitken and Anna Caig are running this informal taster session on Monday 14 December. They'll each share their top tips for writers in how to use social media to connect effectively with readers, whilst also prioritising your wellbeing and avoiding burnout. This quick, fun 45-minute session is for writers who want some practical suggestions to improve the way they use social media, or who are considering signing up for Molly and Anna's Hawkwood weekend and would like to get a sense of the tutors' approach. How to sign up: add your email to our sign up form in our bios and we'll send you the zoom link on December 14th. 06 Nov 2026

The full deep dive with @molly.aitken is now live. Leave a 💙 below and I’ll DM you the link to read it You’ll learn… 👇 • Why the right idea can sometimes take years to produce • What it’s like being edited by the iconic New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman • Why she stopped writing (and how she returned to it) • The framework that changed her approach to social media • How to keep your creative well from running dry ✍️ Women of Letters: follow for career advice you can’t get anywhere else, with the women leading our cultural landscape 04 Nov 2026

Novels are not cheap but luckily some lit mags share stories for free on their websites. Here are my free stories: 'This Is How It Happens' @newyorkermag (listen via the Writer's Voice on any podcast app) 'Thresholds' @psharesjournal 'Jellyfish' @bansheepress I am really proud of these stories but also proud of how my writing has improved through writing short fiction. I will link them all in my stories soon for any interested readers. 04 Nov 2026

Autumnal and also slightly spooky reads appropriate for scaredy cats. #horrorbookstagram #fallbookstagram 30 Oct 2026

It was such an inspiring conversation with @molly.aitken about all things writing, motherhood, and so much more. It’s full of great insights, so do give it a read 😊 The full interview is now available on Substack 💙 26 Oct 2026

In truth, it is not possible to develop your main character with just one writing prompt, and that's why I am running my 'Developing Characters' course over four Tuesday evenings this November. See @the.writersworkshop website for all the details. 23 Oct 2026

All of these books give me something I want to imbue my next book with. Sometimes it is a something technical anout the writing. But more often it is a texture, a mood, something hard to define. Having these books near me remind me what I am reaching for in my writing. Last week I wrote and made progress but I feel fragile, and do not want to talk about it online. Perhaps I will report more next week. It is nothing to do with the book itself which I love and is becoming wonderful (I think), but I did not realise how the visibility of sharing process in real time might make me feel....I am still not clear. But it is a curious thing to share as it happens and I will talk more about it next week (or at the end of 12 weeks). And despite how it might appear I am not writing a book that has anything to do with Virginia Woolf. 19 Oct 2026

I love @this_bookish_thing recommendations of sufjan stevens books. I love listening to them while I am writing. So I just wrote a chapter with this mood, and it made me very happy. 19 Oct 2026

November 1st 13.30 Kilkenny Castle Where Anya Bergman and I will be talking about witchcraft in Ireland, especially Alice Kyteler, and my novel Bright I Burn #witchlit #visitkilkenny 17 Oct 2026

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