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Saw A RAISIN IN THE SUN last night. What an absolute gem! And such a glorious audience experience. Beg borrow or steal* to catch the last couple of shows ☀️🍇 *not literally, of course, but also…

Rencontre avec Ruth Gilligan à L'Avant-Scène Cognac le 16 nov à 10h à Cognac #prixdeslecteurs #Irlande Programmation litteratures-europeennes.com

New online! An interview with Colin Barrett (Colin Barrett), discussing his debut novel, Wild Houses, with Tolka editor Liam Harrison. tolkajournal.org/read-online/co…

There they are - the big six! Always my fav evening Southbank Centre, and Ella Wakatama hosted with aplomb! #twasthenightbeforebooker

Come work with us! Cannot rave about my colleagues - or students - enough. V happy to chat about the role / department if helpful. Deadline 2 December Film&CreativeWriting 💫🙏🏻 jobs.ac.uk/job/DKN571/ass…

Students! Brilliant free online event TONIGHT about careers in literature, featuring our very own alumna superstar Lily Blacksell! Register here: rsliterature.org/whats-on/caree… 💫💫 Film&CreativeWriting College of Arts+Law Royal Society of Literature

Currently in Cognac for the Littératures Européennes Cognac which so far has meant chatting with lovely local library groups and dusting off my decidedly ropey Leaving Cert French 🇮🇪🇫🇷📚 #butchersontour Éditions du Seuil

Update from Cognac: living in a chateau with Louise Kennedy, Jan Carson and Billy O’Callaghan is excellent craic, apart from the entirely terrifying mannequin on the first floor landing…! Littératures Européennes Cognac #booktour 🇫🇷👻

Huge congratulations to the brilliant and lovely Ruth Gilligan who’s just won the Readers’ Prize at the LEC literature festival here in Cognac for the French translation of her novel, The Butchers

🌟 Toutes nos félicitations à Ruth Gilligan, lauréate du prix des lecteurs de littératures européennes de Cognac 2024 pour son roman “Les Champs brisés” ! En savoir plus : seuil.com/ouvrage/les-ch…

What a week! Bloody delighted to have won the Readers’ Prize at the Festival of European Literature. And bloody loved drinking aaaall the cognac with my fellow authors. Merci beaucoup à tous! 🥃🇫🇷🇮🇪

Oh Jaysus there’s me looking trés emosh in the French Sunday papers 🥹🇫🇷 Littératures Européennes Cognac Sud Ouest Éditions du Seuil

Had the absolute honour of presenting my work on ‘Storytelling & Empathy’ to our new Chancellor Sandie Okoro OBE OBE this morning. What a woman! And what an exciting moment for Uni of Birmingham 💪🏻💫

We are now accepting submissions to our 2025 Poetry Workshop run by Annemarie Ní Churreáin. Deadline: 5pm Monday 9th December. This new workshop will help poets working on developing a project or manuscript over a four-month period (Jan-May 2025). More info: stingingfly.org/poetry-worksho…

I’m judging a prize! And the first batch of books has just been delivered. Taking all my willpower not to just drop everything and rip it open like a child on Christmas morning… 👀📚

One week left to apply! Please share w any writers who might be interested; also, very happy to chat about the role / department if helpful (in short, we’re delightful…) Film&CreativeWriting Uni of Birmingham jobs.ac.uk/job/DKN571/ass…

In which I recommend Isabella Hammad’s ENTER GHOST, Ferdia Lennon’s GLORIOUS EXPLOITS and Evie Wyld’s THE ECHOES as my books to gift this Christmas… Irish Independent 🎄📚 m.independent.ie/entertainment/…

Apparently, this one of the most-read pieces of the year on Granta 🤙🏾 Wheeling it up again in honour.