Lectures and other events

‘The Fragmentary Self: On Form and Identity’ sketches Alice Kinsella’s journey from writing poetry to her first book of prose, Milk: On Motherhood and Madness (2023). Alice’s talk will also draw from her interviews with writers Colm Keegan, William Keohane, and Rúairí Conneely to discuss other approaches to literary form, and how the writer’s experience intersects with class, gender identity and race.

This essay was commissioned by the Irish Writers Centre as the inaugural National Mentoring Programme Alumni Lecture and was delivered at Cúirt International Literature Festival in 2024.

Listen to the lecture via Soundcloud.

Read the lecture in text form here.

Follow Alice Kinsella on Substack here.