Felicity McCall
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Felicity McCall who lives in Derry is an award winning novelist, dramatist, writer of screenplays, and a miscarriage of justice activist. The former BBC journalist has written several novels, plays and films. Originally from South Armagh, she graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1979 and began work as a journalist with the Ulster Gazette in Armagh and the Portadown Herald. For twenty years she worked for BBC news and current affairs programmes in Belfast & London. Her first novel Reckoning was published in 2006. The same year she won the Tyrone Guthrie Award for script/play writing. She is also a campaigner for miscarriages of justice and in 2010 published Justice for John, the story of a former RUC officer from Co.Tyrone, John Torney, who died in prison. Her first collection of short stories has just appeared and she is also working on her first novel for teenagers to be published next year.