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THE GLASS SHORE
SHORT STORIES BY WOMEN WRITERS
FROM THE NORTH OF IRELAND
Winner of Best Irish Published Book of the Year 2016, The Glass
Shore, edited by award-winning broadcaster, critic and editor Sinéad
Gleeson, is an intimate and illuminating insight into a previously
underappreciated literary canon. The event will be chaired by Sinéad
who will be joined by 3 leading authors to talk about short stories and
women’s voices.
Sinéad Gleeson is the editor of two previous anthologies, Silver
Threads of Hope and The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish
Women Writers, which won Best Irish Published Book at the 2015
Irish Book Awards. She presents The Book Show on RTÉ Radio 1.
Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast whose first novel, Malcolm
Orange Disappears was published in 2014. 2017 sees the publication of
her flash fiction anthology, Postcard Stories.
Rosemary Jenkinson was born in Belfast and studied Medieval
Literature at Durham University. Her first collection of short stories,
Contemporary Problems Nos. 53 & 54, was published in 2004, and a
second, Aphrodite’s Kiss, in 2016.
Bernie McGill is the author of Sleepwalkers, a collection of stories
shortlisted in 2014 for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her second
novel, The Watch House, will be published in August 2017.
5.30PM // £7 | £5 // CRESCENT ARTS
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