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Award winning writer Jaki McCarrick

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Jaki McCarrick is an award-winning writer of plays, poetry and fiction. Her debut short story collection The Scattering was published by Seren Books and was shortlisted for the 2014 Edge Hill Prize. The collection includes her story The Visit, which won the 2010 Wasafiri Short Fiction Prize and was included in Best British Short Stories (published by Salt), 2012. On the basis of her debut collection, Jaki was longlisted in 2014 for the inaugural Irish Fiction Laureate. Her play LEOPOLDVILLE won the 2010 Papatango Prize for New Writing, and her play THE NATURALISTS premiered in 2018 in New York to rave reviews: “Impeccable, a gift to its actors” New York Times; “Beautifully performed” The New Yorker. Her play BELFAST GIRLS, developed at the National Theatre Studio, London, was shortlisted for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the 2014 BBC Tony Doyle Award. It premiered in the US in Chicago in 2015 to much critical acclaim and has since been staged widely internationally with recent premieres in Australia and Sweden. In 2016, Jaki was selected for Screen Ireland’s Talent Development Initiative and has recently completed the screen adaptation of BELFAST GIRLS. She is currently working on her second collection of short fiction and her first novel, The Family Wolves. Jaki also writes critical pieces for the Times Literary Supplement, Irish Examiner, Poetry Ireland Review and other publications

SPEAKERS CORNER

  • Mags Wade Dark Matter video
  • Seán Lysaght reads for Speakeasy
  • Jack Grady reads
  • Andy Howden reads from his novel
  • Eileen Sheehan reads for Speakeasy
  • Audrey Molloy Reads for Speakeasy
  • Acclaimed novelist Nicola Pierce
  • C. Lee McKenzie young adult novelist
  • Poet Mary J. Oliver reads for Speakeasy
  • Novelist and filmmaker Caroline Farrell

PREVIOUS SESSIONS

  • Mags Wade Dark Matter video
  • Seán Lysaght reads for Speakeasy
  • Jack Grady reads
  • Andy Howden reads from his novel
  • Audrey Molloy Reads for Speakeasy
  • Estelle BirdyEstelle Birdy – Speakeasy October 29th 8.00pm

TEN-PAST-TEN THEATRE

  • Frank Connolly Conspiracy of LiesFrank Connolly reads from A Conspiracy of Lies
  • Three Men in a Boat: Minnow Productions 29/10/19

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