Bernie McGill’s short stories featured in two celebrated recent anthologies of women writers edited by Sinéad Gleeson, The Long Gaze Back (New Island Books, 2015) and The Glass Shore –Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland (New Island Books, 2016). Her story collection Sleepwalkers (Whittrick Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, and, beside numerous other awards, she won the Zoetrope: All-Story Award in 2008. She is also a novelist and has written for theatre. Her acclaimed historical novel The Butterfly Cabinet (first published in 2010; re-published in 2016) is based on the mysterious events surrounding the death of a young girl in 1890s’ Portstewart, the Northern coastal town the author has lived in for many years. McGill’s new novel, The Watch House, set on Rathlin Island, will appear in August 2017 with Tinder Press.