Beginner’s pluck: Dublin-based writer Estelle Birdy

'Ravelling' follows five friends from the Liberties as, in Leaving Cert year they negotiate life, facing racism, poverty, danger from drug gangs, and garda harassment

Estelle Birdy: 'In 2017, realising I was procrastinating, I took my MA in creative writing, and everything changed. My short stories were published and shortlisted.' Picture: Bryan Meade

Estelle has always written stories.

“I won an essay competition in school, and in primary school, I wrote and edited a school newspaper.”