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Irish Women Writers Panel
June 25 @ 19 h 00 min - 20 h 30 min
£10Three of the most exciting contemporary voices on the Irish literary scene come together to discuss their bold and lyrical latest works with fellow writer Rachel Connolly.
Irish Women Writers: Wendy Erskine, Gráinne O’Hare, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
Wendy Erskine is the author of two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move. She was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize and Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and she received the Butler Literary Award and the Edge Hill Readers’ Choice Award. She edited the art anthology, well I just kind of like it. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is a frequent broadcaster and interviewer, and works as a secondary school teacher in Belfast. The Benefactors is her debut novel.
Gráinne O’Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022. She has been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition, the Bridport Prize, the London Magazine Short Story Prize and the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and is currently completing a PhD on eighteenth-century women’s life-writing. Thirst Trap is her first novel.
Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin is a writer and communications officer who was the winner of the inaugural PFD Queer Fiction Prize and was also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Trust Discoveries Prize in 2022. Her debut literary novel is Ordinary Saints.
This event will be chaired by writer Rachel Connolly. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The FT Magazine and elsewhere and her first novel, Lazy City, was published in 2023 and won a Betty Trask Award.