Winter Papers Launch Naoise Dolan, Tim MacGabhann and Tenaya Steed in conversation with Kevin Barry

    Volume 12 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, photography, visual art, along with craft interviews and in-conversation pieces on writing, film, theatre, photography, music, and more. 

    ‘a treasure trove of soul fuel with deep roots in Irish soil’ – Irish Times

    Join us for the launch of Winter Papers 12 with readings and conversation from some of this year’s contributors, Naoise Dolan, Tim MacGabhann and Tenaya Steed, with the anthology’s co-editor, Kevin Barry.

     

    Naoise Dolan is the author of the novels Exciting Times (2020) and The Happy Couple (2023).

     

     

     

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    Tim MacGabhann is the author of the novels Call Him Mine and How to Be Nowhere, the memoir The Black Pool, the short story collection Saints, and the poetry collection Found in a Context of Destruction.

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    Tenaya Steed is a Dublin-based writer and artist. Her stories appear in The Stinging Fly and have won the Michael McLaverty Award and The Stinging Fly/FBA Fiction Prize. She is the 2027 recipient of the Harper Wood Creative Writing and Travel Award.

     

     

     

     

     

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    Kevin Barry is the author of four novels and three story collections. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. His novel, Night Boat to Tangier, was an Irish number one bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland.

     

     

     

     

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