The Better Life by Bairbre Flood

Bairbre Flood (The Better Life) is an Irish writer and journalist. Her story Fejira // to cross (also set in the Jungle camp in Calais) won first prize in the Fish Memoir Competition 2019. Judge Chrissie Gittins described it as ‘a vivid, clear-eyed account which witnesses the facts of these precarious ‘blown-apart lives struggling to start again’ and makes them plain to see.’ @bairbreflood

Bairbre's work appears in Issue 4 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.