"I scribbled it in the radiotherapy waiting room."

Writer Emily Devane was inspired to write her flash fiction piece The Hand That Wields The Priest while looking at another patient's angling magazine in hospital. The story has won several prizes and is quiet story with dark undertones about a child and their father as they go for a fishing expedition that changes everything. 

In an honest and warm piece for the 100 voices for 100 years project, Emily talks about the time of writing it and how the story's success has helped chart her progress into recovery.