Cork author William Wall: 'Bullying is one of the hardest problems for a school to solve'

The Whitegate writer tells Richard Fitzpatrick about his latest novel 

William Wall is from Whitegate, and was formerly a secondary school teacher in Cork. 

The spring of 2020 is a moment in time not easily forgotten. As the covid pandemic swept across the world, the norms of daily life – in particular work practices and social interactions – were put on hold. With societies in “lockdown”, a lot of people were left scratching around, wondering how to fill their time.

Jim, the protagonist in William Wall’s new novel, Writers Anonymous, is a novelist living in Ireland. When the pandemic hits, he decides to start an anonymous online workshop for unpublished writers, something to “keep the head occupied”.