Aimée Walsh is a writer from Belfast.
Her debut novel Exile will be published by John Murray Press in May 2024. It has been listed as a highly anticipated release by The Irish Times, Dazed, and the Journal, amongst others.
In 2023, Walsh was longlisted for the London Magazine Short Story Prize.
Her short fiction, non-fiction, and book criticism has appeared in The Irish Times, The Observer, RTÉ Culture, Extra Teeth, Dazed, Refinery29 (US, Germany, Australia, and UK), and The Independent (UK, Spain, and Ireland).
In Spring 2022, she was a participant in the Faber Academy short story workshop ran by Lucy Caldwell. In 2021, she was the recipient of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Emerging Writers Bursary in conjunction with the Irish Writers’ Centre.
Walsh holds a PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in Irish Literature and Cultural History, with a focus on Irish women writers from the north of Ireland. In September 2024, this work will be published by Liverpool University Press in her first monograph, Writing Resistance in Northern Ireland.
She is working on her second novel.
Agent: Eleanor Birne