Mich Maroney, 61, moved to West Cork and launched Swerve, a literary and arts magazine, in 2022. Now her cottage in Skibbereen has become a creative hub
ich Maroney has always known what she wanted. As a little girl, she loved painting and told her family she was going to be an artist. “I was so young that I didn’t even know what it meant,” she says. “But my dad had this huge book on art and suddenly I knew, yes, this is what I’m going to do.”. When she was eight, the family moved to London, where she later worked as a visual artist and supported herself with administrative jobs.
In lockdown, she turned to creative writing for the first time. “I had written about my own work before for funding applications, but had always wanted to write more creatively,” she says. “I got on to a Cork County Libraries course for writers who hadn’t written before.” After falling in love with it, she joined the Cork Prose Collective, a group of writers who meet regularly to discuss their latest ideas.
Swerve magazine was born in 2022. It was formally launched at the West Cork literary festival, where the contributors held a roundtable discussion and an exhibition of images., was inspired by a publication that Maroney had picked up from a shop in London many years earlier. “It was the last edition of a beautiful magazine which came out of Paris in 1940, full of amazing illustrations and a celebration of French culture in the face of totalitarianism.
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