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The reality of residency

Residencies are the stuff of dreams but when you actually get there the practicalities of a different environment cut in.

13 May 2015 12:00

Nicole Smith

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Writing and Publishing

Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Image via Clinton Kirkpatrick

Late last year I travelled to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre located at Annaghmakerrig, a place in Ireland that is hard to spell but easier to pronounce, which is a residential workplace for artists to find peace and quiet to concentrate on their work with the stimulation of living alongside artists from other disciplines.

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Nicole Smith

About the Author

Nicole was first published when she was twelve in the Courier Mail for a science fiction short story called Just Another Day In Space. Since then she has realised that there are no days in space. Nicole just returned from a month-long residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland where she began her second book, Songs from the Singing Ship. Nicole Smith is the author of Sideshow, which won the 2014 Viva La Novella Prize and is published by Xoum Publishing. Sideshow is currently longlisted for the Dobbie Award.