![]() ![]() Do read on as we discuss everything from writing habits, feminism, dystopian fiction and (of course) the need to eat more pizza… So, it was an extraordinary pleasure to be able to catch up with her as part of our ‘Creatives in Profile’ interview series. With her next book, Blue Ticket, scheduled for release in 2020 and already hotly anticipated by everyone involved with the literary scene, Mackintosh is, then, perhaps one of the most important writers to watch over the coming months and years – and she is widely regarded as “the name to drop” in literary circles. A graduate of the renown Warwick University creative writing programme, Mackintosh’s brand of beautifully written, yet often disquieting, prose and poetry had often drawn the attention and praise of readers – and she has had pieces published in Granta, The Stinging Fly, Stylist and The White Review. Yet despite it being her fiction debut, Mackintosh had been showing oodles of potential for many moons before The Water Cure really caught the attention of critics and publishers. Sophie Mackintosh (Photo credit for this, and featured image above, belongs to Sophie Davidson).įrom a small town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, Sophie Mackintosh truly set alight the literary scene with her blisteringly good debut novel, The Water Cure, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize (not long after being subject to a frenzied bidding war between competing book publishers). ![]()
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