A Little Unsteadily Into Light: New Dementia-Inspired Fiction

Newly commissioned short stories that explore and represent the lives of those living with dementia. While the vast majority of dementia narratives feature very specific types of the disease and a narrowly defined type of character, A Little Unsteadily into Light embraces and interrogates the depths and breadth of the dementia experience across ethnicity, age, class and gender, sex and consent. These new stories by some of the best writers from Ireland and the UK will provoke conversations and provide an honest and diverse insight into this important topic which impacts so many people.

Contributors:

Suad Aldarra

Caleb Azumeh Nelson

Jan Carson

Elaine Feeney

Oona Frawley

Sinad Gleeson

Anna Jean Hughes

Caleb Klaces

Naomi Kruger

Henrietta McKervey

Paul McVeigh

Mary Morrissey

Nuala O'Connor

Chris Wright

Find out more about the AHRC-funded research project based at Queen's University Belfast, from which this anthology has emerged: www.blogs.qub.ac.uk/dementiafiction/