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MFA in Creative Writing Program Carlow University

June 2017 Ireland Residency Program Guide

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland June 4 – 17, 2017

JUNE 2017 IRELAND RESIDENCY SCHEDULE

(Locations and times may be subject to change)

Sunday, June 4, 2017 All day Students arrive independently throughout the day

2:00 p.m. to midnight

Check in to Accommodation Office

Evening free

Monday, June 5, 2017

7:30-9:00 a.m. Breakfast Location: The Buttery, Trinity College

10:00-11:00 a.m. Registration and Introduction Seona MacRéamoinn, Alessandra Nania Local program coordinators

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Walking tour of Trinity College and visit to The Book of Kells in the Old Library

12:00-12:30 p.m. Plenary student meeting with Interim Director, Jan Beatty, and Dr. Lou Boyle, Carlow English Department Chair

12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch Location: The Buttery, Trinity College

1:30-2:15 p.m. Mentor and Director Meeting Jan Beatty, Lou Boyle, and all MFA mentors

2:30-5:00 p.m.

Genre Workshops 1 • Carlo Gébler (fiction) • Brian Leyden (nonfiction) • Jean O’Brien (poetry) Location: The Atrium

6:00 p.m. Welcome Dinner including Mentor Readings Location: 1592 Restaurant, Trinity College

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

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9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Genre Workshops 2 • Carlo Gébler (fiction) • Brian Leyden (nonfiction) • Jean O’Brien (poetry) Location: The Atrium • Coffee break at 10:30


1:15-2:15 p.m.

“Crossing the Water: Submitting and Publishing Your Work Overseas” Tess Barry’s presentation will explore the numerous overseas publication opportunities available to American writers. There are thousands of in print and online journals and contests in England, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Scotland, and Wales publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written in English. We will discuss the advantages of submitting your work in Europe, look at a detailed list of journals and contests, and review the dos and don’ts of submitting overseas. Location: The Atrium

2:30 -3:30 p.m. Reading and discussion by Colette Bryce Introduction by Jean O'Brien Location: The Atrium

5:00-6:00 p.m. Jen Reed closed MFA defense, mentors only

6:15-7:15 p.m. Elizabeth Kavitsky closed MFA defense, mentors only

7:30 p.m. Evening and dinner on own Dublin Literary Pub Crawl—meeting point tbc

Wednesday, June 7, 2017


9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Genre Workshops 3

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• Carlo Gébler (fiction) • Brian Leyden (nonfiction) • Jean O’Brien (poetry) Location: The Atrium • Coffee break at 10:30

12:30-3:00 p.m.

Lunch Location: Café Joly, National Library of Ireland Early afternoon visit to The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats exhibit Location: National Library of Ireland

3:30-4:30 p.m. Reading by Kevin Barry Introduction by Brian Leyden Location: The Atrium

5:00-6:00 p.m. Readings by Jen Reed and Elizabeth Kavitsky 6:15 p.m. Wine and Cheese Reception

Thursday, June 8, 2017


9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.



2:30-3:30 p.m. Reading by Sean O’Reilly Introduction by Carlo Gébler Location: The Atrium

4:00-4:30 p.m. “Being Present and Paying Attention” Rachel Walton craft talk Location: The Atrium

Dinner on own

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7:00 p.m.

Evening reading by Paula Meehan Introduction by Jean O'Brien Location: Books Upstairs, Central Dublin Meeting point tbc

Friday, June 9, 2017


9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.



2:30-3:30 p.m. Reading by Katie Donovan Introduction by Jean O'Brien Location: The Atrium

4:00-5:00 p.m.

“Telling It Like It Is (and isn't): Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800)” James Heaney talks about how this seminal Irish novel blurs the line (in a very Irish way) between fact and fiction. It's useful to writers thinking about voice and perspective, and how to write about Big History in a disarming and engaging, and extremely clever way. Location: The Atrium Free evening, dinner on own

Saturday, June 10, 2017


9:00 a.m.

Depart for all-day trip to The Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas, County Carlow • Lunch included

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Return to Dublin, evening free

Sunday, June 11, 2017


Day free

Monday, June 12, 2017


9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Genre Workshops 6 • Evelyn Conlon (fiction) • Brian Leyden (nonfiction) • Jean O’Brien (poetry) Location: The Atrium • Coffee break at 10:30


2:30-4:00 p.m. Reading by Jan Carson and Roisín O'Donnell Introduction by Evelyn Conlon Location: The Atrium

4:30-5:30 p.m.

“Obliteration: On the Nature of Memory, Time, and Loss” Brian Leyden talks about the origins and inspiration for his memoir, The Home Place, and what connects an Irish hill farm, National Geographic magazine, and the Martin Scorsese movie, Goodfellas. Location: The Atrium

Dinner on own Evening Traditional Irish music, song, and dance session

with Fintan Vallely and Friends

Tuesday, June 13, 2017


9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Genre Workshops 7

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• Evelyn Conlon (fiction) • Brian Leyden (nonfiction) • Jean O’Brien (poetry) Location: The Atrium • Coffee break at 10:30


2:30-3:30 p.m. Reading by Siobhán Parkinson Introduction by Evelyn Conlon Location: The Atrium

5:45 p.m. Pre-theatre dinner Location: The Peacock Theatre

7:30 p.m.

Evening theatre performance, No’s Knife. Based on Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett. Conceived and performed by Lisa Dwan. Location: The Abbey Theatre

Wednesday, June 14, 2017


9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.



1:15-2:15 p.m. “The Projectionist” A craft talk by Carlo Gébler. Location: The Atrium

3:00 p.m.

Tour and discussion of art exhibition. Carlo Gébler will lead students either to the summer exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy or the National Gallery for a tour and discussion of art, perspective, and the writing process.

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Free evening, dinner on own

Thursday, June 15, 2017


9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.



2:00-3:00 p.m. Reading by Claire Keegan Introduction by Brian Leyden Location: The Atrium

3:30-4:30 p.m. A presentation by James Heaney on Joyce, Bloom, and Dubliners Location: The Atrium

Dinner on own

7:00 p.m. Student Readings and Reception Location: The Rathgar Bookshop, South Dublin Details tbc

Friday, June 16, 2017


10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Genre Workshops 10 • Evelyn Conlon (fiction) • Brian Leyden (nonfiction) • Jean O’Brien (poetry) Location: The Atrium Individual consultations

12:00 p.m. Bloomsday activities Location: Davy Byrnes Dublin Pub

Afternoon Mentor Contracts, final wrap-up

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Details to be advised

8:00 p.m. Farewell Dinner and Graduating Student Readings Location: The Ely Wine Bar, Dublin City Centre

Saturday, June 17, 2017 Check-out and depart

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VISITING WRITERS, PANELISTS, AND FACULTY KEVIN BARRY is the author of the novel City of Bohane and two short story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize in 2012. For City of Bohane, he was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author's Club First Novel Prize, The European Prize for Literature, and the IMPAC Prize, and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature in 2007. Barry has an original screenplay, The Gee Gees, in development with Element, with David Kerr attached to direct. Another screenplay, based on stories from Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms, is in development with Michael Garland at Grand Pictures. Kevin’s latest novel, Beatlebone, was published in 2015 and won the Goldsmith’s Prize 2015. TESS BARRY was shortlisted for the 2015 Manchester Poetry Prize (UK). Twice a finalist for North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize and Aesthetica Magazine’s (UK) Poetry Award, she also was shortlisted for the 2014 Bridport Poetry Prize (UK). Most recently, her poems appeared or are forthcoming in And Other Poems (UK), The Compass Magazine (UK), Mudfish, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and The Stinging Fly (Ireland). She teaches literature and creative writing at Robert Morris University. JAN BEATTY’s fifth book, Jackknife: New and Selected Poems, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2017. Her last book, The Switching/Yard, was named by Library Journal as one of ...30 New Books That Will Help You Rediscover Poetry. The Huffington Post called her one of ten “advanced women poets for required reading.” Her poem, “Shooter,” was featured in a paper delivered in Paris by scholar Mary Kate Azcuy: “Jan Beatty’s ‘Shooter,’ A Controversy For Feminist & Gender Politics.” Books include Red Sugar, Boneshaker, and Mad River, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, published by University of Pittsburgh Press. Awards include the $15,000 Creative Achievement Award in Literature from the Heinz Foundation, a $10,000 Artists Grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation, Discovery/ The Nation Prize finalist, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Beatty's work has been published in Poetry and Best American Poetry, and she was featured at the Split This Rock Poetry Festival and the Geraldine R. Dodge Festival. Beatty hosts and produces Prosody, a public radio show on NPR affiliate WESA-FM featuring national writers. She worked as a welfare caseworker, in maximum security prisons, and as a waitress for fifteen years. She directs the creative writing program at Carlow University, where she runs the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops and is Interim Director of the MFA program. LOUIS J. BOYLE, PhD is chair and professor of English at Carlow University. He is the author of T.H. White’s Reinterpretation of Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur,” and has authored articles and presented papers on the Arthurian legend. His most recent articles are

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“‘Ruled by Merlin’: Counseling Patterns, Mirrors for Princes, and Malory’s ‘Tale of King Arthur,’” published in the international journal Arthuriana, the journal of the North American branch of the International Arthurian Society, and "T. H. White's Representation of Malory's Camelot" published in Arthurian Literature XXXIII. He has presented papers on Arthurian topics at the International Congress on Medieval Studies for the past ten years, and also at the 23rd Triennial Arthurian Congress at the University of Bristol, and at the 24th Triennial Arthurian Congress at the University of Bucharest. In July he will present a paper at the University of Werzburg at the 25th Triennial Arthurian Congress. COLETTE BRYCE was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, and lived in London for many years before moving to Scotland in 2002, where she held a fellowship in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee. Bryce's first published work was included in Anvil New Poets, (1995, ed. Carol Ann Duffy), which also introduced the work of Kate Clanchy and Alice Oswald. Her first collection, The Heel of Bernadette (2000), won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and the Strong Award for new Irish poets; the title poem of her second book, The Full Indian Rope Trick (2004), won the National Poetry Competition in 2003. Her other collections are Self-Portrait in the Dark (2008), and The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (2014, all Picador). The Observations of Aleksandr Svetlov, a pamphlet, appeared from Donut Press in 2007. She has also received an Eric Gregory Award, a Cholomondeley Award, and was winner of the 2007 Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition. Bryce has taught for various organizations including the Arvon Foundation, The Poetry School, and the University of Newcastle. From 2009 to 2013, she was the editor of Poetry London. Part of a new succession of Northern Irish poets whose presence has continued to predominate poetry in the United Kingdom, Bryce's at-times virtuosic engagement with traditional forms has contributed to her becoming one of the most praised and recognized poets of her generation. JAN CARSON is a writer based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published by Liberties Press in 2014, followed by a short story collection, Children’s Children in 2016. Her flash fiction anthology, Postcard Stories, is forthcoming from the Emma Press in 2017. Her stories have appeared in journals such as Storm Cellar, Banshee, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Honest Ulsterman. In 2014 she was a recipient of the Arts Council NI Artist’s Career Enhancement Bursary. She was longlisted for the Sean O’Faolain short story prize in 2015 and shortlisted in 2016, won the Harper’s Bazaar short story competition in 2016, and was shortlisted for a Sabotage Award for best short story collection 2015/16. EVELYN CONLON is a novelist, short story writer, editor, and anthologist, from Co. Monaghan, Ireland. She travelled extensively in Australia and Asia before returning to Ireland and National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where, as well as getting her degree and diploma in education, she started its crèche in 1976. Conlon has published four novels: Stars in the Daytime (1989), A Glassful of Letters (1998), Skin of Dreams (2003)

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and Not the Same Sky (2013). She has also published three collections of short stories: My Head is Opening (1987), Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour (1993), and Telling: New and Selected Short Stories (2001). Conlon has variously compiled and edited four books: An Cloigeann is a Luach (writings from Limerick), Cutting the Night in Two (an anthology of short stories by 20th century Irish women), Annaghmakerrig (an anthology of work from residents of Annaghmakerrig Artists’ Retreat in Co. Monaghan) and Later On (an anthology of fact, fiction and poetry as a memorial work thirty years after the Monaghan Bombing); the latter book has been used as a cornerstone of the series of lectures in the University of Bologna-Forli on The Languages of War. Her short stories have been anthologized and translated into several languages including Italian, Tamil, French and German. She has given readings throughout the world (Britain, the USA, Australia, Japan, and Indonesia among others) and has been a writer-in-residence at many literary and other seasonal schools in Ireland. Conlon is a regular broadcaster of her essays on national radio in Ireland and on the BBC and is a member of Aosdána. In May 2015, Wakefield Press announced the launch of Not the Same Sky in Ireland and the book was published in Australia and New Zealand in 2013 by Text Publishing. Two early works are being republished this summer by Books Upstairs Publishing. KATIE DONOVAN is a poet and winner of the 2017 Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award and shortlisted for the 2017 Irish Times/Poetry Now Prize. Her poetry collections are Watermelon Man (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Bloodaxe Books, 1993); Entering the Mare (Bloodaxe Books, 1997); Day of the Dead (Tarset, UK, Bloodaxe Books, 2002); Rootling: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2010), and Off Duty (Bloodaxe, 2016). She is the author of a pamphlet, Irish Women Writers: Marginalised by Whom? (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1988; 1991). With Brendan Kennelly and A.Norman Jeffares, she edited Ireland’s Women, Writings Past and Present (Dublin, Gill & MacMillan/1994; UK, Kyle Cathie 1994/New York, Norton & Norton, 1996). She is the co-editor, with Brendan Kennelly, of Dublines (Bloodaxe Books, 1995), an anthology of writings about Dublin. CARLO GÉBLER was born in Dublin in 1954 and brought up in London. He now lives outside Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He is the author of several novels including The Eleventh Summer, The Cure, How to Murder a Man, A Good Day for A Dog, and The Dead Eight (shortlisted for the Kerry Irish Fiction Prize); the short story collection W.9. & Other Lives; and several works of non-fiction, including the memoirs Father & I and Confessions of a Catastrophist and the narrative history, The Siege of Derry. Gébler has also written travel books, novels for children, and plays for both radio and the stage, including Dance of Death (1998), an adaptation of Strindberg's play cycle produced at the Tricycle Theatre, London; 10 Rounds (shortlisted for the Ewart-Biggs

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Prize); Henry & Harriet, a site-specific drama commissioned by Kabosh Theatre for the Belfast Cathedral Arts Festival; Charles & Mary, a play for BBC Radio 3 about the lives of the brother and sister who wrote the classic children's introduction to Shakespeare, Tales from Shakespeare; and Belfast by Moonlight, premiered at the Belfast Festival at Queen's in 2013. He has also written the text for several operas, wrote a weekly column for the Belfast Telegraph for several years, and reviews widely. Gébler’s most recent publication is the memoir, Confessions of a Catastrophist (Lagan Press, 2015). JAMES HEANEY is a lecturer in English and Irish studies at Carlow College, Ireland. His areas of interest include European drama, modern Irish writing, and comparative literature. Awards include the Pierce-Malone Scholarship for Mental and Moral Science from the National University of Ireland. He has published articles on modern Irish and Spanish literature in a range of books and journals, including: Irish University Review, New Voices in Irish Criticism, Faithful Companions: Collected Essays Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Kate O’Brien Weekend, The Bulletin of Spanish Studies, POST: A Review of Poetry Studies, and Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. In 2004, Heaney’s one-act play, Awimbawey, was produced at the Project Arts Theatre as part of the Fishamble Theatre company’s production, Shorts. His short film, Strandhill, has been commissioned by Zanzibar Films. His short story, “Whenever I Close My Eyes,” received an honorary mention in the Fish Short Story competition, and was published in the Fish Anthology 2014. His poem, “I can’t help it really,” was short-listed for the poetry prize in the same competition. CLAIRE KEEGAN grew up on the Wicklow/Wexford border in Ireland, studied literature and politics at Loyola University, New Orleans, and subsequently earned an MA at the University of Wales and an M.Phil at Trinity College, Dublin. Her debut collection of stories, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. The Observer called these stories: “Among the finest recently written in English.” In 2007, Walk the Blue Fields was published to huge critical acclaim and went on to win The Edge Hill Prize for the strongest collection published in The British Isles that year. Foster (2010) won The Davy Byrnes Award, judged by Richard Ford, who said: “Keegan is a rarity-someone I will always want to read.’’ The story was subsequently published by Faber, abridged for The New Yorker, shortlisted for the 2010 Kerry Fiction Prize and published in Best American Stories, 2010. Her stories have been translated into 14 languages. A member of Aosdána, Keegan now lives on the Wexford coast. “The best stories here are so textured and moving, so universal but utterly distinctive, that it’s easy to imagine readers savouring them many years from now and to imagine critics, far in the future, deploying lofty new terms to explain what it is that makes Keegan’s fiction work.” – The New York Times (Walk the Blue Fields review). “Every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion.” – Hilary Mantel.

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BRIAN LEYDEN is a novelist, short story writer, memoirist, screenwriter and editor. He was the Age & Opportunity Bealtaine Festival National Writer in Residence for 2016 and has recently finished touring his spoken word and music show Old Flames. His books include the bestselling memoir, The Home Place (New Island, 2002), the novel, Death and Plenty (Brandon Books, 1996), and the short story collection, Departures (Brandon Books, 1992). He has written extensively about his home area for the National Broadcaster RTÉ's Sunday Miscellany. His radio documentary work includes No Meadows in Manhattan, Even the Walls Were Sweatin’, The Closing of the Gaiety Cinema in Carrick-on-Shannon, and An Irish Station Mass. He is also co-writer of the feature film, Black Ice, which premiered at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013 and received an IFTA Best Actress nomination. He has been a guest performer at The Frank O’Connor Weekend, The Green Ink Festival in London, the Ireland and its Diaspora Writers and Musicians tour of Germany and The Newport Festival in Rhode Island. He also toured with the Irish Writers Centre’s Peregrine Readings—supported by The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon (2010). He was Ireland’s Age & Opportunity Bealtaine Festival National Writer in Residence (2016. Awards include the Francis McManus Short Story Award and The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon Travel and Education Award. He is a recipient of a Norman Mailer Writers Colony Scholarship (USA), Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, (BAI) Sound and Vision Award (2014), and an Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon “Literary Bursary” 2014. He is a recently contributor to: Winter Papers (ed. Kevin Barry & Olivia Smith, Curlew Editions, 2016) Fermata: writing & music (ed Vincent Woods and Eva Bourke, Artisan House, 2016) and Writing the Sky: essays on Dermot Healy (ed. Niall Murphy & Keith Hopper (Dalkey Archive Press, 2016). His most recent publications are Sweet Old World: New & Selected Stories (Lepus Print 2015) and the novel Summer of ’63 (Lepus Print 2016). PAULA MEEHAN was born in Dublin in 1955. Her poetry collections include Return and No Blame (Dublin, Beaver Row, 1984); Reading the Sky (Beaver Row, 1986); The Man Who Was Marked by Winter (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1991 – reprinted 1992, 1994 and 1999), which was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish Literature Prize for Poetry; Pillow Talk (Gallery, 1994 – reprinted 1997 and 2000), which was shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize for Poetry; Mysteries of the Home: A Selection of Poems (Newcastle Upon Tyne Bloodaxe Books, 1996); Dharmakaya (Manchester, Carcanet Press, 2000); and Music for Dogs (Dublin, Dedalus, 2008). In 2009, Painting Rain was published. She has written plays for children and adults, including Mrs Sweeney (Dublin, New Island Books, 1999); and Cell (New Island Books, 2000). Her work has been translated into several languages including Spanish, German, Galician, Greek, Estonian, and Japanese. She was elected to Aosdana in 1996 and appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry 2013-2016.

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JEAN O’BRIEN has had four collections of poetry published and two chapbooks. Her New & Selected, Fish on a Bicycle was published last autumn. She is an award-winning poet, having won the prestigious Arvon Internation Poetry Competition (judged by the British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy). She won the Fish International Award and was placed and listed in many others, her most recent being Highly Commended in the Forward Prize 2014. She has attended many festivals as a reader and judged many competitions including the Poetry Ireland Introductions. She teaches creative writing in a wide variety of places, including The Midlands High Security Prison, schools, libraries, travellers centres, community centres, and in the Irish Writers Centre for the past fifteen years. Her work has been most recently anthologized in If You Ever Go; Unesco One City One Book, edited by Pat Boran and Gerard Smyth; and in the Windharp Poems since 1916, edited by Niall McMonagle. She recently attended a Master Class with the prominent Polish poet Adam Zagajewsky. She holds a Masters in Philosophy in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin. ROISÍN O’DONNELL is a short story writer, living in Dublin. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the University of Ulster, her stories and poems have been published internationally, featuring in The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Structo Magazine, Popshot Magazine, Unthology, and elsewhere. Her short stories appear in Young Irelanders (2015), and in the award-winning anthologies of Irish women's writing, The Long Gaze Back (2015) and The Glass Shore (2016). Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Forward Prize, she has been shortlisted for many international awards, including the Cúirt New Writing Prize, the Brighton Prize, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, and the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award 2016. Her story, “Under the Jasmine Tree,” received an Honorary Mention in the Bath Short Story Award. Another story, “Him,” received an Honorary Mention in Fish Flash Fiction Prize. In 2015, O’Donnell was granted a Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. Her debut short story collection, Wild Quiet, was published in 2016 by New Island Books; it was listed as one of The Irish Times’ Favourite Books of 2016, shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award 2017, and longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2017. SEAN O’REILLY was born in Derry in 1969. He has published a collection of short stories, Curfew and Other Stories (London, Faber & Faber, 2000). His novels are Love And Sleep (Faber & Faber, 2002); The Swing of Things (Faber & Faber, 2004); and Watermark (Dublin, The Stinging Fly Press, 2005). He lives in Dublin. SIOBHÁN PARKINSON writes novels, mostly for children and young people. She says herself that she writes “to the imagination.” True, most of the imaginations who engage with her work are on the youthful side, but in her view, the best books are for everyone who enjoys them.

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She is also publisher with an independent publishing house called Little Island, which publishes for children and teenagers. Parkinson served as Ireland's first ever laureate for children's literature (Laureate na nÓg) from May 2010 to May 2012. She has also won the following awards; 2015 Gold Medal and Honorary Patronage of the Philosophical Society, Trinity College Dublin, 2014 Irish Tatler Woman of the Year Award in the Arts, 2014 Residency at the Irish Cultural Centre Paris, 2013 Trinity College Dublin Alumni Award, 2013 Children’s Books Ireland Award for Services to Children’s Literature, 2012 IBBY Honour for Translation (Over the Wall), 2011 CBI Honour for Fiction (Maitríóisce), 2008 Oireachtas prize (Dialann Sár-Rúnda Amy Ní Chonchúir), 2008 IBBY Honour for Fiction (Something Invisible), 2007 Bisto Honour (Something Invisible), 2007 White Raven (Kate), 2000 IBBY Honour for Fiction (The Moon King), 1999 Bisto Merit (The Moon King), 1998 Bisto Merit (Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe)), 1998 White Raven with special mention (Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe)), 1997 Bisto Book of the Year (Sisters – No Way!), 1995 White Raven (No Peace for Amelia).

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