49 min
FICTION AT THE FRIARY Part 8 FICTION AT THE FRIARY AND ON CAMPUS
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This programme features Danielle McLaughlin on campus, in the Observatory. Danielle is the author of the short story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets. She was UCC Writer-in-Residence from 2018 to 2019. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Irish Times, The Stinging Fly and various anthologies. She has won the Windham Campbell Prize, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition, the Willesden Short Story Prize, the Merriman Short Story Competition and the Dromineer Literary Festival short story competition. Her debut novel, The Art of Falling, will be published in January 2021.
The guest author at Fiction at the Friary is Neil Hegarty. Neil was born in Derry, Northern Ireland. His debut novel, Inch Levels, published in 2016, was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award. Here he reads from his most recent novel, The Jewel, published in 2019. Other books by Neil include: Frost, The Life That Was (WH Allen), the authorised biography of Sir David Frost. He also writes essays and short stories.
The open mic readers are Niamh Bagnell, John Mee and Lourdes Mackey.
This programme features Danielle McLaughlin on campus, in the Observatory. Danielle is the author of the short story collection Dinosaurs on Other Planets. She was UCC Writer-in-Residence from 2018 to 2019. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Irish Times, The Stinging Fly and various anthologies. She has won the Windham Campbell Prize, the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition, the Willesden Short Story Prize, the Merriman Short Story Competition and the Dromineer Literary Festival short story competition. Her debut novel, The Art of Falling, will be published in January 2021.
The guest author at Fiction at the Friary is Neil Hegarty. Neil was born in Derry, Northern Ireland. His debut novel, Inch Levels, published in 2016, was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award. Here he reads from his most recent novel, The Jewel, published in 2019. Other books by Neil include: Frost, The Life That Was (WH Allen), the authorised biography of Sir David Frost. He also writes essays and short stories.
The open mic readers are Niamh Bagnell, John Mee and Lourdes Mackey.
49 min