M.J Hyland News and Events

Here you can find the latest news from M.J Hyland, including links to newly published stories, essays and articles, as well as details of upcoming fiction classes and events.

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MJ Hyland at the Dublin Writers Festival (June 6th)

MJ Hyland will be appearing, alongside novelist Steve Toltz, at this year’s Dublin Writers Festival on June 6th. [To buy tickets for the event - click here] The theme of the event will be ‘What does it take to trip a man up – to send him on a crash course with his own inevitable [...]

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MJ Hyland at the Hay Festival (Sunday 31st May)

For details of the festival, and to book a seat for the event check here. MJ Hyland will be appearing, alongside DBC Pierre and Paolo Giordano, for an event at this year’s Hay Festival on Sunday 31st of May. Maria will be reading from her new novel ‘This is How‘, described by the festival organisers [...]

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Selling Fakes

from The Manchester Review My first rented room was a converted walk-in wardrobe on the third floor of an old house. I slept on foam cushions pushed together on the floor. It was summer, I was seventeen, and I needed money for rent. About a week after taking the room, I saw this ad in [...]

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MJ Hyland interviews Colm Toíbín

MJ’s Interview with Colm Toibin in the latest issue of The Manchester Review Colm Toíbín is the multi-award winning author of five novels and more than 10 works of non-fiction. His awards include the Encore award (for The Heather Blazing), the E.M. Forster award, and the International IMPAC Dublin award (for The Master). I’ve been [...]

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Carry Me Down - MJ Hyland interviewed in Three Monkeys Online

Three Monkeys Online has a lengthy interview with MJ Hyland, to discuss Carry Me Down in particular, and her work in general. Some sample quotes: “On the first reading it should be superficially simple, but engaging, with a strong narrative pull. I intend to give the reader a reason to turn the page, so a [...]

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Carry Me Down Observer Review by Geraldine Bedell

Here’s an extract from the review of Carry Me Down published in the English Newspaper The Observer. Geraldine Bedell, a regular reviewer and contributor to The Guardian and The Observer is also the author of a novel, The Gulf Between Us John Egan is huge, gangling and vulnerable, a 12-year-old child-man on the cusp of [...]

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How the Light Gets In Interview with Sinead Gleeson

Here’s part of an old interview Maria did with Irish journalist Sinead Gleeson, around the time that How the light gets in was published in the UK and Ireland Why did you pick a teenage girl as the protagonist in this novel? I didn’t set out to write about a teenage girl, it was mostly [...]

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