Writing methods with Eimear McBride

A conversation with the award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians and Strange Hotel

This week on The Writing Life podcast – Eimear McBride shares her writing method with advice on characters, how to finish a book and what makes someone a writer.

Eimear McBride is the award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (Women’s Prize for Fiction, Irish Novel of the Year, the Goldsmiths Prize and others) and The Lesser Bohemians (James Tait Black Memorial Prize). Her third novel Strange Hotel was published earlier this year.

This interview was originally broadcast on YouTube in March part of our Early Career Writers’ Resources pack Dialogue, made possible by Arts Council England. Discover more here →


Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.

Music by Bennet Maples

Image (c) Sophie Bassouls


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