Felicity McCall

A BBC staff journalist for twenty years based in Northern Ireland during the conflict, Felicity McCall is a writer and broadcaster. She has more than twenty published titles, thirteen plays staged professionally and four screenplay credits. Genres include young adult fiction, literary fiction, short stories and memoir for Little Island, Guildhall Press, Penguin and Blackstaff. Her theatre life saw her founding and running three professional touring companies and acting for stage and film, as well as co-founding the multi-disciplinary group, Literary Ladies. Career awards include the Tyrone Guthrie award for stage and screenplay, eight Arts Council individual awards, two Meyer-Whitworth nominations, and two Irish theatre awards. A professional member of the Irish Writers Centre, she mentors and facilitates individuals and groups. A lifelong trade unionist, she is a member of the Irish executive of the National Union of Journalists, and a governor of Oakgrove Integrated College in Derry. Defining herself as an artist/activist, she has been privileged to work with miscarriages of justice, trauma and abuse survivors and aspires through her writing to give a voice to the voiceless. Most recently she has been working as a ghost writer, and with the Ambassadors for Peace project based at Derry’s Playhouse. Her next publication will be a second volume of short stories. Felicity is based in Derry and Donegal, where she walks and writes by the shore, aims to become increasingly fluent in Irish, to live a healthy and sustainable lifestyle and enjoys being an Irish Mammy and Mamo (Granny).