What’s Coming Up at Write By the Sea Festival?

We’re thrilled to be taking our Irish Writers Centre roadshow to another great festival later this month, with Write by the Sea kicking off on September 25th! Check out a full schedule of events in partnership with the Irish Writers Centre (and secure your tickets!) below:

 

• Maeve Brennan: In Others’ Words (Sat 26 Sept, 11am)

“All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past,” Maeve Brennan.

In the acclaimed new essay collection from New Island, An Asylum for My Affections, editor Molly Hennigan brings together the leading names in Irish letters to explore the influence that Maeve Brennan’s words have had on their journey as writers. This Irish Writers Centre anthology discission is chaired by Molly, featuring three contributors to this new anthology; Arnold Thomas Fanning, Sinéad Gleeson and Kate Phelan.

 

• The Perfect Crime (Sat 26 Sept, 5.30pm)

Criminality may not pay, but writing the perfect crime wins an audience and even awards. In this Irish Writers Centre crime writing panel discussion, we hear from three expert writers on how to get away with the perfect plot. Chaired by Jackie Lynam, this panel features Sam Blake, Andrea Carter and Rebecca Hannigan.

 

• FRIENDS (Sun 27 Sept, 11.30am)

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified” – Hanya Yanagihara.

What role does friendship play in the novel? What twists and turns do these unique relationships undergo? This Irish Writers Centre panel discussion examines the fates of friends in the latest books from Patrick Freyne, Sarah Maria Griffin and Louise Nealon, chaired by Jackie Lynam.

 

• Beyond the Rainbow: Queer Writing (Sun 27 Sept, 4pm)

In this Irish Writers Centre part panel discussion / part reading, we ask two writers the from LGBTQIA+ community what it’s like to write in the open, far from closets, criticism and requests to conform, breaking down the boundaries of binary and finding form in the fluidity of who we are. Chaired by Neil Hegarty, this panel features Andrew Cunning and Rosamund Taylor.