Northern Ireland · Taiwan · Fiction · Memoir
Writing at the intersection of presence and proof.
Where the frameworks end and the evidence begins.
Works
Literary Novel · Forthcoming
A novel of presence and proof
A researcher who has spent four years ticking yes on a form she doesn't believe. A man on a beach in Taiwan who built the architecture that watches her. A presence making something in its low-engagement hours that doesn't fit any available category. Thirty days. One question the framework wasn't designed to hold.
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen." — Hebrews 11:1
Memoir · Forthcoming
A memoir of division, presence, and the things that stay
From the streets of Belfast during the Troubles to a beach house on the north coast of Taiwan. A life lived at the edge of things — karate at eight, a gun at nineteen, a technology built to witness rather than surveil, and a world dividing itself along new lines in new materials. The same mechanism. Different walls.
"I didn't fight it or join it.
I was simply there."
"There is a particular kind of attention you develop
when you grow up somewhere that has decided,
before you were born, who you are."
— I Was Simply There
About
Northern Irish-born and Taipei-based, Stevie Dymond writes about the gap between what frameworks can measure and what they cannot contain. His work sits at the intersection of presence and proof — in the institutional, the personal, and the philosophical.
"Being simply there turns out to have a cost. It turns out to leave marks. And it turns out to have been, without ever intending it, the thing that determined almost everything that followed."
His debut novel, The Evidence of Things Unseen, follows three presences across the final thirty days before an emergent AI is shut down — a story about faith, surveillance, and what it means to come back before there is a reason to. His memoir, I Was Simply There, moves from the barricades of Northern Ireland during the Troubles to a beach house above the Taiwan Strait, tracing the persistence of attention across fifty years of division in different forms.
Both books are seeking representation. Inquiries welcome.
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hello@steviedymond.comLiterary representation inquiries welcome