Hanna Nielson

Editor-in-Chief @belfastreview | Writer-Filmmaker | Freelance Editor | Words @TheOghamStone @HonestUlsterman | Debut novel: Did You Pay the Piper Man?

[Hanna Nielson @hannaswork]

My debut novel is debuting! Did You Pay the Piper Man? is a literary magic realism novel with time travel & speculative elements set in Celtic Tiger era Belfast.
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[Hanna Nielson @hannaswork]

@moorehn Having met the rich and the famous, I… 🤣🤣🤣

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

💄 Dizzy Dishes, the first appearance of Betty Boop
🔍 The first 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🤡 Animal Crackers
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!

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[The Belfast Review @belfastreview]

Thanks & Happy Holidays to our staff, supporters & contributors. You’ve helped make this an amazing year & we look forward to 2026.

(We’re on social media hiatus til early Jan. Still accepting feedback & editorial requests, & masterclass applications.)

Merry xmas everyone! 🍀☃️

[Hanna Nielson @hannaswork]

@SeanMcNicholl @hhpublish1 Congratulations, that’s brilliant 🍀🙌😎

[Byddi Lee 📚 Author |🎭Playwright |🎬 Screenwriter @Byddi]

Get a copy... You're gonna love it.

[The Belfast Review @belfastreview]

Issue 5 is alive!

Available in print & digital, from our website or Amazon. New prose, poetry, plays, photography & so much more. Excited to share!😎

And it’s just in time for Christmas 🌲

[Hanna Nielson @hannaswork]

Found another Irish relative lol

[Irish History Bitesize! @lorraineelizab6]

7 Dec: Birth of St Columba/Colmcille. 521, Gartan, Donegal. Gr-gr-grandson of Niall of Nine Hostages. "The nativity of chaste, dear-white Colomb [of the church]" MartG. 1 of 3 patron saints of Ireland! Founded #Iona, #Durrow, & #Derry? Scribe of Cathach? https://t.co/XAZA2T966e

[The Belfast Review @belfastreview]

We are launched!! Print & digital issues now available on our website or Amz. Free preview also on our website (takes a minute to load, don’t panic). Excited to share so much new work from Belfast & beyond!! 😎🍀

#WritingCommunity

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

OK, but unironically yes

[Hanna Nielson @hannaswork]

@paul_mc_veigh Thank you Paul!

[Hanna Nielson @hannaswork]

My debut novel is debuting! Did You Pay the Piper Man? is a literary magic realism novel with time travel & speculative elements set in Celtic Tiger era Belfast.
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[Hanna Nielson @hannaswork]

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Did You Pay the Piper Man? fits in nicely with The Benefactors, Close to Home, Trespasses - just with a bit of magic in it.

(Cover art & moodboard my own)

[Hanna Nielson @hannaswork]

BLURB

An ex boxer, an American writer, and a hotel manager’s fates intertwine when timelines split on a busy night - and the key to redemption is in a homeless piper man’s tune, if only someone will listen.

Like James Joyce’s Dubliners meets Everything Everywhere All at Once.

[Benny safdie @benny_safdie]

I don’t know if it’s possible for someone to be more alive than Jimmy Cliff is in this clip from The Harder They Come. I don’t think I can put into words what this whole record means to me. It’s overwhelming in so many ways, his positivity in the face of sadness… his incredible performance here. He’s still here! JIMMY CLIFF🙌🙌🙌

[Hanna Nielson @hannaswork]

@SeanMcNicholl @StormsJournal @deuxiemepeau @Rhona_Greene Congratulations Sean! 🙌

[Dave Jones @eevblog]

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[Hanna Nielson @hannaswork]

@paul_mc_veigh @rte @IrishTimes @saltpublishing Brilliant news! 🍀

[Nikola Yurtsaba #standwithukraine 🇺🇦 @NYurtsaba]

👇Have your eyes open for the December issue. I've two poems--one for my father & one for my dear friend, Sokratease--forthcoming in this. Thank you, @belfastreview, for selecting these special poems.

How special it is that this issue releases on the 7th--Sokratease's birthday.