Live event at Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy

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HomePlace is delighted to welcome three of Sligo's best literary stars to celebrate their new publications, chaired by Jan Carson.

Alice Lyons's most recent book is Oona (Lilliput, 2020), a novel, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Kate O’Brien Award. Author of three collections of poetry, she is recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the inaugural Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary awarded by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. She is Lecturer in Writing + Literature, Yeats Academy of Arts, Design + Architecture at IT Sligo.

Louise Kennedy grew up in Holywood, Co. Down. Widely published in journals, she has written for The Guardian, Irish Times and BBC Radio 4. In 2019 and 2020, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Her critically acclaimed debut collection, The End of the World is a Cul de Sac, was published by Bloomsbury in April. She lives in Sligo, where she is completing a novel.  

Una Mannion is a poetry and prose writer who has won numerous prizes for her work including the Hennessy Emerging Poetry Award (2017), Doolin short story, Cuirt International short story, Ambit short story and others. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, Winter Papers, The Lonely Crowd, and was recently included in The Art of The Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories edited by Sinead Gleeson. She is the chair of the writing programme at IT Sligo and edits The Cormorant, a broadsheet of prose and poetry. Her debut novel, A Crooked Tree was released by Faber in January 2021