William Prendiville
William Prendiville is the author of the Fairlight Moderns novella Atlantic Winds, published on 11 July 2019.
Born in Ireland, William was raised in Canada, in Newfoundland and Ontario. He attended McGill University in Montreal, where he was awarded the Lionel Shapiro Award for Creative Writing. William has lived in Paris, France for the past eighteen years and works as a journalist there. In 2017, he spent a year in Myanmar teaching. In his spare time, he likes to hike.
A short Q&A with William Prendiville can be read below:
How did you start writing?
I always liked stories and poems, and started putting them to paper when I could. I also wrote for the school paper in high school. In Paris, I did corporate journalism for a while, which helps with fiction, because you really do have to try hard to keep things vivid.
Did you always want to be a writer?
Yes, at least after I stopped wanting to be a veterinarian.
You’ve work as a journalist and an editor. How does journalism writing differ from fiction writing?
In fiction, you struggle to be more objective. You can’t parody the people or ideas you don’t like. It makes for bad fiction, unless you’re Evelyn Waugh.
Atlantic Winds is his debut novella. Read our full interview with him about it here.
