Carrie Walsh

Bio

Carrie Walsh is a London Irish writer. Her writing focuses on power dynamics within relationships, within work places, and in particular within the arts. She also explores the decay and desperation between people and between their own artistic practice. How far will an artist go to make art? How far will someone go for love? For fame? For sex? Carrie also writes heavily about class, particularly the working class experience in the arts. Carrie also writes about the Irish diaspora and immigrant experience.

Carrie Walsh is a graduate of the University of Oxford [Diploma in Creative Writing], Wimbledon College of Art [BA hons Theatre: Design for Performance] and Camberwell College of Art [Art & Design Foundation specialising in Fashion].

In 2020 she was longlisted for the London Writers Prize in 2020 and in 2021 was a winner for the Thames Lens prize for Photography. Carrie has had her fiction and poetry published by Dear Damsels and The Royal Society of Literature. She has performed her poetry at Oxford University and the St Leonard’s Festival. She has also had her plays performed at Southwark Playhouse, Pleasance Theatre, The Vaults Theatre and the Tristan Bates Theatre.