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Events in Early 2025
My upcoming events for the year (so far) – updates as time goes on: 19th January: Online book club event with Irish Cultural Centre, Massachusetts. 5pm GMT. 29th January: The Word on Wednesday, Sligo Central Library, 6.30pm. Moderator: Niamh McCabe. In-person and livestream. More here. 19th February: Online interview about writing, at Canadian writer Rob…
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DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD nomination
My Anne Bonny novel, Seaborne, is nominated for the Dublin Literary Award! Thanks to the fab crew at Bruges Library for the nomination. Congrats to all my fellow listees, which includes books by Irish writers Colm Tóibín, Paul Lynch, Colin Barrett, John Boyne, Sinéad Gleeson, and Orla Owen. The Dublin Literary Award honours excellence in…
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MENAGERIE – new poetry collection
Arlen House is celebrating 50 Years in 2025, and I have a new poetry collection, Menagerie – my first since 2011! – forthcoming in March. I’ve had many beautiful blurbs from favourite poets, including Paula Meehan who says the poetry is ‘as wild as it gets: a kaleidoscopic collection of beautiful forms and patternings.’ The…
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WIRED OUR OWN WAY – autism anthology
Wired Our Own Way, out 28th March 2025, from New Island Books Pre-order now available. I’m honoured to have an essay about friendship (eek!) in this fab anthology of essays by autistic Irish adults, edited by Niamh Garvey. Description: Wired Our Own Way: An Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices is the first collection of personal…
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NOVEL OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST
Thrilled sideways that Seaborne is shortlisted for Eason Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards alongside books by Sally Rooney, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Colin Barrett, Christine Dwyer-Hickey, & Kevin Barry. Congrats to all shortlisted writers in the APIBAS & thanks humungously to all New Island Books.
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EVENTS – AUTUMN 2024
A roundup of upcoming events: KINSALE, 5th October, 2.45pm: Join me and Sinead Gleeson with Tara Flynn at Words By Water Literary Festival in Kinsale, Co. Cork. More here. DUBLIN, 10th October, 6pm: I am taking part in the ISLA Festival at the Cervantes Institute in Dublin in an event called Fascinating Lives, with Fernando Beltrán (Spain), and Irene…
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CERVANTES INSTITUTE EVENT – Seaborne
Round table discussion: “Fascinating lives” JOIN ME AND OTHERS ON the 10th October at the Cervantes Institute in Dublin for this event, Fascinating Lives: Delve into the life of adventurous and creative minds through the more recent books of three authors from Spain, Argentina and Ireland In a contemporary world where autobiography is very present,…