Hollie McNish

Hollie McNish in St Andrews

One of the true highlights of our Autumn Literary Festival was hosting Hollie McNish for an evening of poetry, storytelling, and lots of laughter at St Andrews Episcopal.

We are beyond thrilled to announce that Hollie will be returning in October on her next book tour!

The new collection from Sunday Times bestseller and Ted Hughes Award-winner, Hollie McNish. 

The belief in the concept of virginity loss, as well as causing us much gossip in the school playground, has led to unimaginable atrocities now and for centuries past. The concept has been used to justify exclusion, ostracisation, forced marriage, torture, imprisonment, rape and murder. 

Virgin is a word that holds incredible power – when we’re not using it to describe clean white snow, olive oil and non-alcoholic drinks. In this exciting new collection of poems Hollie McNish dissects the concept of virginity: its history, social impact, problematic nature and need to dismantle it.

Hollie McNish is an award-winning poet based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers, Slug and Lobster, the Ted Hughes Award-winning Nobody Told Me and poetry collections Plum, Cherry Pie and Papers. She has also adapted Greek tragedy Antigone, and co-wrote Offside, a play, with fellow poet Sabrina Mahfouz. She loves writing.