Masterclass with Mike McCormack
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Date: November 1, 2025
Time: 1.00pm - 3.00pm
Duration: 2 hours
Level: Intermediate | Beginner |
Cost: €50 (€45 Members)
This session will take place in-person at the Irish Writers Centre on Saturday 1 Nov, 2025 (one session in total).
We are delighted to offer a masterclass with Rooney Prize winner, Mike McCormack, to be held at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin.
The author Solar Bones, McCormack’s 2016 novel which was awarded the Goldsmiths Prize, the Bord Gais Energy Irish Novel of the Year and the International Dublin Literary Award, will focus on the generation of narrative content through character, dialogue and dramatic circumstance.
This one-off event will take place in-person, running for 2 hours with a Q&A at the end.
Mike McCormack is one of the 22 writers featured in our video series Dublin, One City, Many Stories, produced in association with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. With one video dropping each month until the end of the year, you can watch them on our YouTube Channel.
Mike McCormack comes from the west of Ireland and is the author of two collections of short stories, Getting it in the Head and Forensic Songs, and four novels: Crowe’s Requiem, Notes from a Coma, Solar Bones and This Plague of Souls.
In 1996, he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature and Getting it in the Head was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In 2006, Notes from a Coma was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award. In 2016, Solar Bones was awarded the Goldsmiths Prize and the Bord Gais Energy Irish Novel of the Year and Book of the Year; it was also long-listed for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. In 2018 it was awarded the International Dublin Literary Award. He is a member of Aosdána.
