To celebrate the publication of Dance Move, Wendy has invited a brilliant panel of guests to read alongside her:

Scottish Book Trust Award recipient Ryan O’Connor who will read from his forthcoming debut novel, The Voids.

Graeme Armstrong, whose debut novel The Young Team, inspired by his own experiences of growing up in Glasgow, won the Somerset Maugham Award & Betty Trask Award.

Author, critic and musician David Keenan, who will read from his latest critically acclaimed novel Monument Maker.

About Wendy Erskine

Wendy Erskine lives in Belfast. Her work has been published in The Stinging Fly, Stinging Fly Stories and Female Lines: New Writing by Women from Northern Ireland. She also features in Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber and Faber), Winter Papers and on BBC Radio 4. Her debut short story collection, Sweet Home, was published in 2019.

In her new short story collection, Dance Move, Wendy Erskine once again offers revealing snapshots into the domestic lives and chance encounters of ordinary people – laying bare all the joy, humour, tragedy and farce that lie therein.

While one of the stories has been published previously (‘Secrets Bonita Beach Krystal Cancun’ – released in a limited edition pamphlet by Tangerine Press), the other stories are completely new.

As with her debut collection, Sweet Home, Wendy Erskine once again shows her fantastic ear for dialogue, brilliant dark humour and ability to land an emotional punch that the reader doesn’t see coming..