Spotlight on Irish Fiction withGavin Corbett, Claire Louise Bennett and Colin Barrett

Hosted by CBC’s Sandra Abma

In Person Fiction

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Thursday

Oct , 2015

8:30pm

Eastern

Christ Church Cathedral

414 Sparks St. • Ottawa

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Spotlight on Irish Fiction withGavin Corbett, Claire Louise Bennett and Colin Barrett

Magnificent...A stunning debut... The timeless nature of each story means this collection can – and will – be read many years from now.

Sunday Times (Ireland) on Colin Barrett

Join us for a special spotlight on amazing talent from the Emerald Isle.

Don’t miss your first chance to meet Gavin Corbett, winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, with his latest novel, Green Glowing Skull; Claire Louise Bennett, winner of the The White Review’s inaugural short fiction prize, with her acclaimed first collection, Pond; and Colin Barrett, winner of The Guardian First Book Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for his collection Young Skins.

Presented with Support from

Ireland Literature Exchange:

Promoting Irish Literature Abroad

With the support of the Embassy of Ireland

The Authors

Claire-Louise Bennett

Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire in the southwest of England. After studying literature and drama at the University of Roehampton in London, she settled in Galway. Her short fiction and essays have been published in The Stinging Fly, The Penny Dreadful, The Moth, Colony, The Irish Times, The White Review and gorse. She was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize in 2013 and has received bursaries from the Arts Council and Galway City Council. This is her first collection of stories.

Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett was born in 1982 and grew up in County Mayo. In 2009 he completed his MA in Creative Writing at University College Dublin and was awarded the Penguin Ireland Prize. His work has been published in The Stinging Fly magazine and in the anthologies, Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails (Stinging Fly Press, 2010) and Town and Country (Faber and Faber, 2013).

Gavin Corbett

Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland and grew up in Dublin, where he studied History at Trinity College. His second novel, This is the Way, was published in 2013, and was named the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year in 2013. He lives in New York.