United Kingdom
I am a writer of essays, stories, and journalism.
My features and opinion columns have appeared in publications like The New York Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, The i, The Guardian, The Village Voice, The Baffler, VICE, i-D, Huck Magazine, and many others.
My creative non-fiction has been published by Winter Papers 3, The Tangerine, and commissioned by South London Gallery, The V&A, Cubitt Gallery, Goldsmiths Lit Live, Kunstraum Gallery, and Wysing Arts Centre.
I have taught courses in the Irish Writers Centre, and given guest lectures at Durham University's MA in Creative Writing and at the Fine Art department of The University of Reading.
Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland and is currently based in London. Her writing includes essays, fiction and reviews which have been published widely including in E.R.O.S. Journal and The Guardian. Readings and performances commissioned across the U.K.
In which an Irish woman discovers how little the people who shaped her country's fate know or care. By Megan Nolan Ms. Nolan is an Irish writer based in London. LONDON - Last month, some video footage went viral in Ireland of a group of English men verbally abusing young women at a Dublin housing crisis protest.
I can trace the roots of my own anxiety to my final year of school and the exams it entailed. Yet I only became aware of the tic symphony that my body silently conducts when I moved in with a...
In a gallery in East London, in the summer of 2016, something strange was taking place. LD50 was about a year old by then, run by Lucia Diego, and had hosted shows by prominent artists at varying stages of their careers-Dinos and Jake Chapman, John Russell and Joey Holder, Deanna Havas, and Jesse Darling to name a few.
Megan Nolan (First published in Winter Papers Volume 3 in October 2017) 'My eyes! I think I'm blind. My eyes! Oh, the light hurts so bad.'- from Bonnie And Clyde. 'Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.'- from Les Miserables. When we do not know what to draw, we draw the eye.
It is commonly agreed that desire is a self-perpetuating rather than substantive thing. Everyone from George Bernard Shaw to Nietzsche to the Buddha himself has commented on the dissatisfaction inherent in obtaining what we want. Desire is, we are told, an endlessly hungry beast, and to feed it is o
Photo: Mandoga Media/DPA/PA Images On Saturday, in the wake of a still-growing number of women going public with their accusations of assault and rape at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, the hashtag #MeToo started trending.
Noel Edmonds in his new show 'Cheap Cheap Cheap' (Photo via Channel 4) Noel Edmonds returned to television last week with Cheap Cheap Cheap, a delirious gameshow-cum-sitcom fever-dream in which contestants have to guess which of three similar items is the cheapest and... that's it.
First delivered as a talk at the London Salon: Emotion, part of the City Now City Future season at the Museum of London. Megan Nolan is a writer born in Ireland and living in London. She is a columnist for the Sunday Times Style magazine.
The enormously popular Series of Unfortunate Events books begin with the quintessential nightmare of childhood: the sudden death of your parents. The Baudelaire children - Violet, Klaus, and the infant Sunny - are shipped from relative to relative after their mother and father perish in a mysterious fire, pursued relentlessly by Count Olaf, a vain two-bit actor determined to appropriate the Baudelaires' inherited fortune.