Irish Women Short Story Writers
With Jan Carson , Mary Morrissy , Roisīn O ’ Donnell & Rosemary Jenkinson
Crescent Arts Centre Tuesday 14 June – 8pm Tickets : £ 6 /£ 4
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts development officer based in Belfast . Malcolm Orange Disappears was published by Liberties Press , in 2014 . Her short stories have appeared in many journals and in 2014 she received an Arts Council NI Artist ’ s Career Enhancement Bursary . Her short story collection , Children ’ s Children was published in 2016 .
Mary Morrissy has published three novels – Mother of Pearl , The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey – and a collection of short stories , A Lazy Eye ( 1993 ). She has won a Hennessy Award and a Lannan Literary Foundation Award and currently teaches at University College Cork .
Rosemary Jenkinson is from Belfast . Her plays include The Bonefire ( Stewart Parker BBC Radio Award ), Basra Boy , White Star of the North , Ghosts of Drumglass , Planet Belfast , Stitched Up and Here Comes the Night . Writing for radio includes Castlereagh to Kandahar ( BBC Radio 3 ) and The Blackthorn Tree ( BBC Radio 4 ). Aphrodite ’ s Kiss , was published by Whittrick Press in 2016 .
Roisīn O ’ Donnell ’ s work has been published in journals and anthologies internationally , featuring in Young Irelanders ( 2015 ), and in the award-winning anthology The Long Gaze Back ( 2015 ). Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Forward Prize , she has been shortlisted for several international writing awards , including the Cúirt New Writing Prize , the Brighton Prize , the Wasafiri New Writing Prize and the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award 2016 . belfastbookfestival . com 33