A free online reading and in conversation with fellow Northern Irish writers Rosemary Jenkinson and Malachi O’Doherty as part of this year’s Bray Literary Festival.

Rosemary Jenkinson is a playwright and short story writer from Belfast. She was 2017 Artist-in- Residence at the Lyric Theatre and received a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 2019. She was a recent WriterInTheirResidence with Irish Writers Centre. Her previous short story collections are Contemporary Problems Nos. 53 & 54 (Lagan Press), Aphrodite’s Kiss (Whittrick Press) and Catholic Boy (Doire Press). Lifestyle Choice 10mg was published by Doire Press in March, 2020.

Malachi O’Doherty is a Belfast author. He has nine published books, mostly non-fiction. His first novel, Terry Brankin Has a Gun, was released by Merrion this year. His non-fiction work centres largely on the Northern Ireland Troubles. His response to cultural change in Northern Ireland, Fifty Years On, has been published in paperback by Atlantic. Malachi lived in India for four years as the disciple of a Hindu Swami and is working on a memoir of that experience.

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