“This is a book about motherhood and sisterhood. It’s about falling in love with a God who doesn’t love you back, and trying not to fall in love with your cousin.”
My work-in-progress is a novel inspired by my Irish roots – examining the legacies of poverty, religion, and living folklore within a culture famous for its tenacity and playful, wry humour. I write in the gaps between work and daily life, and I’m currently being mentored by the incredible novelist Yvette Edwards as part of the Escalator New Writing Fellowship programme, run by the National Centre for Writing in Norwich.
“It is a testament to the quality and potential of Liv Hewkin’s writing that she was shortlisted from hundreds of applicants and then selected by me from that shortlist to become one of the ten successful writers to make it onto the eight-month programme and one of my two mentees….”
Yvette Edwards, author of The Mother and A Cupboard Full of Coats
Liv Hewkin 