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July 2018
Mike McCormack at the Yeats International Summer School
Goldsmiths-award winner Mike McCormack will be reading from his critically acclaimed novel Solar Bones at the 59th Yeats International Summer School in Sligo from 19-27 July 2018. Check out http://www.yeatssociety.com/ for more
Find out more »October 2018
Emilie Pine speaking in Edinburgh
LightHouse Book Shop, Edinburgh - Friday October 5th, 7.30pm Emilie Pine will be speaking at the wonderful LightHouse Book Shop about her best-selling debut essay collection Notes to Self. The LightHouse is Edinburgh's radical book centre – no better place for Emilie's ground-breaking work! The LightHouse BookShop has 15 free places available for this event which will be given out on a first come first served basis. For more information, and for tickets, please check out this link: http://lighthousebookshop.com/event/notes-to-self-feminist-essays-from-the-next-generation/
Find out more »Sara Baume to Exhibit at the Morley Gallery
Devotions, Keepsakes and Talismans Multi prize-winning author Sara Baume will be showing her visual art work at the renowned Morley Gallery in London from next month, so if you happen to be in the UK do check it out! 'The three projects – Devotions, Keepsakes, and Talismans – which make up this exhibition are composed of many small, handmade, singular yet similar objects. Each project borrows from the aesthetic principles and symbolism of the souvenir; each arose out of superstition and solicitude.'…
Find out more »Mike McCormack at the Iron Mountain Festival
Solar Bones author Mike McCormack will be featured at the Iron Mountain Festival in October. The Iron Mountain Festival says of this year's exciting programme: 'Migration, displacement, farming, forestry and the power of language in translation are themes at the heart of this year’s Iron Mountain Literature Festival in Co. Leitrim which features the 2018 Dublin Literary prize winner Mike McCormack, author of Solar Bones, renowned US poet Tess Gallagher, the Irish language publishing sensation Darach Ó Séaghdha, The Cow…
Find out more »Notes to Self at the Red Line Book Festival
Emilie Pine will be featured at the Red Line Book Festival in October! Emilie joins actor and comedian, our favourite Tara Flynn to discuss her writing. Check out the link for more details, we hope to see you there!
Find out more »Emilie Pine to speak at ISLA – the Irish Spanish Latin American Festival
Emilie Pine will be speaking at ISLA in October, on the evening of Thursday 18th. The them for this year's festival is 'Love and Live. Love and Laugh', and Emilie will be taking part in an inaugural roundtable discussion together with Spanish and a Chilean writers. The discussion will be moderated by the Irish Hispanist Bill Richardson. The event will take place at the Instituto Cervantes in Dublin. For the full programme, and more details here: https://dublin.cervantes.es/imagenes/File/cultura/2018-2019/programa_online_v2.0.pdf There's also a feature…
Find out more »November 2018
Emilie Pine at the Dublin Book Festival
Emilie Pine will be talking all things Notes to Self at the Dublin Book Festival in November! The Dublin Book Festival is a real highlight of the literary calendar – check out their programme for more details of exciting upcoming events, and for ticket information. Emilie will be taking part in a non-fiction panel on Saturday afternoon – we hope to see you there! Apart from the event itself you'll find us hanging out in the Winter Garden, very likely…
Find out more »BOOK LAUNCH A Brilliant Void, edited and introduced by Jack Fennell
For all you sci-fi fans! An astronomer challenges an emperor. A hunter pursues the last dinosaur through a remote rainforest. A young Kerryman emigrates to the Moon to seek his fortune. We're so delighted to be presenting our third and final title for 2018, A Brilliant Void: A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction. These fifteen darkly funny stories illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the winds of change…
Find out more »Jack Fennell and A Brilliant Void at Waterstones Belfast!
Join Jack Fennell, Sarah Maria Griffin, Jo Zebedee and Peadar Ó Guilín at Waterstones Belfast to talk about A Brilliant Void and Irish science fiction more generally. Dr Jack Fennell is editor (and translator!) for our most recent release, A Brilliant Void, which collects fifteen darkly funny stories to illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked. Sarah Maria Griffin is a Dublin-based writer. Her novel Spare and Found Parts is an evocative and eloquent story about love and loss in a…
Find out more »December 2018
Jack Fennell’s A Brilliant Void featured at Hodges Figgis!
Join Jack Fennell, author of Irish Science Fiction and editor of our latest Recovered Voice book A Brilliant Void, at Hodges Figgis where he'll chat to Dee Sullivan, Ruth Frances Long and Dave Rudden about Irish science fiction, monsters and more! Jack Fennell is a writer, editor, translator and researcher whose academic publications include pieces on science fiction, utopian and dystopian literature, monsters, Irish literature, and the legal philosophy of comic books. He is the author of Irish Science…
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