Join us for a summer Sunday afternoon of readings by poet Eoin Devereux, historical novelist Sheila Killian, and Conor Clohessy of the AdNibs Collective.
Gardening Leave delivers new and collected poetry from Eoin Devereux that is bold, moving, challenging and in places subversive. In Something Bigger, Sheila Killian writes the true story, set in America’s deep South, of an Irishman who fought against prejudice and hate that strongly resonates today. The Decades is a themed short story collection featuring six writers from around Ireland. In a dramatic and deftly wrought tale, Conor Clohessy of AdNibs presents a stark dystopia.
Attendance is free, but booking is essential.
ABOUT THE READERS
EOIN DEVEREUX is a Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Limerick and leads the Creative Writers in The Community modules on UL’s MA in Creative Writing. His academic work includes co-edited books on David Bowie, Morrissey, Joy Division and The Fall. Eoin is one half of the Post Punk duo Dopamine Fix and his poetry has been broadly broadcast and anthologised.
SHEILA KILLIAN is an award-winning author and teacher. Her short stories have been variously long-listed and short-listed in competitions in Ireland and the UK. She has published two non-fiction books on the topic of business sustainability. This is the second, European edition of her debut novel, originally published in the United States.
CONOR CLOHESSY of the AdNibs Collective is a writer and playwright, who joins Sharon Guard ( Assembling Ailish ), Máirín Stronge, Seán Coffey, Gio and Sarah Lou Ryan as one of the authors of The Decades . The group emerged from the graduate cohort of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.