Factory Girls shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award

Factory Girls has been shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award, which honours outstanding achievements in second novels. The list of previous winners reads like a who’s who of literature. Irish winners include Caolinn Hughes, Sally Rooney, Anne Enright and Colm Tóibín, so I’m absolutely blown away to be shortlisted alongside:

Milk Teeth, Jessica Andrews (Hodder)

Emergency, Daisy Hildyard (Fitzcarraldo Editions)

Complicit, Winnie M Li (Orion Books)

Here Again Now, Okechukwu Nzelu (Little Brown)

Another wee trip to London is looming. This time there’s going to be more eating before the awards, and less drinking…*

*See CWIP awards entry for lessons learned…