A New Chapter: Women Writing Northern Ireland Now Book Tour
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31 October 2023A NEW CHAPTER: Women Writing Northern Ireland Now
To commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the Consulate General of Ireland in New York is delighted to present 'A New Chapter: Women Writing Northern Ireland Now’, a week-long tour in partnership with Columbia University, Georgetown University, New York University, and Villanova University. This ambitious, three-city program, presented in partnership with Northern Ireland Bureau will welcome Northern Ireland authors Lucy Caldwell, Jan Carson, and Michelle Gallen to three cities on the East Coast November 26 to 30.
DATES AND VENUES
November 27: Columbia University’s Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities will be hosting the 3 authors for a conversation from 6:15 to 8 pm.
November 28: The Villanova Center for Irish Studies will be running a literary panel discussion and readings about women’s rights and sectarian division in Northern Ireland with Lucy Caldwell, Jan Carson, and Michelle Gallen at 6 pm. This event is co-sponsored by the Anne Welsh McNulty Institute for Women’s Leadership and supported by various departments within Villanova and St. Joseph University’s Irish Studies program.
About the Authors:
Lucy Caldwell, who was born in Belfast, is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, two collections of short stories, Multitudes and Intimacies, with a third, Openings, forthcoming in 2024, and is the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber, 2019). Her most recent novel, These Days, won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 followed by a short-story collection, Children's Children (2016), and two Postcard Stories anthologies. Her other novels include Fire Starters (2019), and The Raptures (2022) and has an upcoming short story collection being published in Spring 2024.
Michelle Gallen’s debut novel, Big Girl, Small Town was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and is currently being adapted for TV by the BBC production company, Lookout Point. Her critically acclaimed second novel, Factory Girls, won the Comedy Women in Print award and is currently being adapted for television by Deadpan Pictures.
Further details and all sign up links will follow.