On Wednesday 12 June at 5 p.m., you are welcome at the Irish College Leuven for a reading and Q&A with two exciting Irish writers: Lisa McInerney and Eimear Ryan. Lisa McInerney is a novelist and literary editor, best known for a trilogy of novels that started with The Glorious Heresies, which won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2016. Eimear Ryan is the author of the novel Holding her Breath and the memoir The Grass Ceiling. On Being a Woman in Sport. She is also a founding editor of Banshee press & magazine.
Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a mother, writer and grower. Her work currently explores ideas of emergency, interconnectedness and ecologies of care. Her first book, Thin Places, was published by Canongate in Spring 2021, for which she was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022, highly commended for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021, and shortlisted for the Ireland Francophonie Ambassador's Literary Award in 2024. It was longlisted for the Prix Nicolas Bouvier.
Scott McKendry is a poet-critic from Belfast. He’s currently a Lecturer of Practice at Queen’s University Belfast, where he’s writing a monograph on lesser-known northern poetry – both recently-published work and that of critically neglected twentieth-century figures – exploring aesthetic discourse, literary networking and factionalism, canon-building, and the politics of cultural exclusivity.
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