Mary Wilkinson is a writer living on the west coast of Ireland.

About Me
 

Mary Wilkinson is published in Poetry Ireland Review, Trasna, Crannóg, HOWL, The Irish Times, Books Ireland, West 47, The Dublin Quarterly International Lit. Review, Writing the Mother Memoir (Tell Tale Souls), Listowel Writers’ Week Winners Anthologies, Lyric FM’s Quiet Quarter and RTE’s A Living Word Anthologies, The Galway Review and The Waxed Lemon (artwork). Mary has read her work on RTE radio 1 and Lyric FM. She is a Pushcart Prize Nominee 2020 and winner of Listowel Writer’s Week. Her novella, Quotidian, was published with Reflex Press September, 2023. She is a member of the Galway Writers’ Workshop, the Irish Writers’ Union, and a professional member of the Irish Writers Centre.

 

Most Recent Work

Quotidian

Reflex Press 2022 Novella Award Winner

Read More

October 2023

I Told You Everything

Pushcart Prize Nominee

Published by Crannog Magazine

2020

 

Miscellaneous Publications

Find them here

Praise for Quotidian

  • An original, scrolling mosaic of a novel in which the beautiful and dangerous details of a lived life are carefully laid before the reader.

    Mike McCormack, author of Solar Bones

  • Intriguing, textured and imaginative, with sentences as beautiful as strings of polished beads.

    Martina Devlin, author of Edith: A Novel

  • The rooms the woman narrator of Quotidian occupies are varied: menacing, lonely, melancholic, and sensuous. In stark, tender, concise, and beautiful prose, we witness an originally told, gripping self-excavation.

    Nuala O’Connor, author of Nora: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce

  • The pages, line by line, push out to the edges or reach from the centre, with confidence or resignation or simply understanding, to an ending that is a beginning. A book you will not forget.

    Mark Dwyer

  • Quotidian is an intriguing, inventive and original novella about a woman revisiting the rooms of her past as she comes to terms with disappointments and frustrations in her life. Some beautiful writing here and the cadences put me in mind of some of Eimear McBride’s work.

    Edel Coffey, author of Breaking Point

 

“With brilliantly astute writing, Wilkinson shines a light on the mundanity of the homemaker narrator and keeps the reader on their toes with the occasional piece that plays with structure or repetition, creating a varied reading experience.”

Reflex Press June 2022

Read the Synopsis of Quotidian