Panel Discussion: The Writing Community: are you a member?

Founded in 1991, theIrish Writers Centre's mission is tosupport and promote writers at all stages of their developmentby offering a diverse programme ofwriting courses and workshopsled by established writers across a range of genres includingmemoir, poetry, playwriting, short-stories and the novel. The Centre runsseminars, lectures and readingsrelated to the art of writing and welcomes writers, readers and international visitors.

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This panel discussion will explore what it means to be a member of Ireland's writing community.

<blockquote>“We support a vibrant and diverse community of writers of all types and talents to develop their craft, capacity and confidence to thrive as a writer in the world.” - The Irish Writers Centre Strategy 2022 - 2026.</blockquote> With novelist, playwright and poet Dermot Bolger, novelist and editor Mia Gallagher and writer, performer, and cultural consultant Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, this panel discussion will explore what it means to be - or to become - a member of Ireland's writing community.

Mia Gallagher was born in Dublin, where she still lives and works. She writes novels, short stories and essays and has also devised and written for theatre. Her most recent work is Great Beasts of Myth, a short story commission for RTÉ Radio. She is currently completing her third novel. Mia is a contributing editor with The Stinging Fly and a member of Aosdána. She was on the Board of the Writers Centre between 2012-2015.

Born in Dublin in 1959, the novelist, playwright and poet Dermot Bolger is one of Ireland’s best-known writers. His fourteen novels include The Journey Home, A Second Life, Tanglewood, The Lonely Sea and Sky and An Ark of Light. In 2020 he published his first collection of short stories, Secrets Never Told. His debut play, The Lament for Arthur Cleary, received the Samuel Beckett Award. His numerous other plays include The Ballymun Trilogy, charting forty years of life in a Dublin working-class suburb; and most recently, Last Orders at the Dockside and an adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, both staged by the Abbey Theatre. His ninth poetry collection, The Venice Suite: A Voyage Through Loss, appeared in 2012. He devised the best-selling collaborative novels Finbar’s Hotel and Ladies Night at Finbar’s Hotel, and edited numerous anthologies, including The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction.A former Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Bolger writes for Ireland’s leading newspapers, and in 2012 was named Commentator of the Year at the NNI Journalism Awards. In 2021 he received The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. His tenth poetry collection, Other People's Lives, was published by New Island in 2022.

Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan is a Dublin-based writer and performer and cultural consultant from India. Her work has been published by Dedalus Press, Lifeboat Press, Poetry Ireland, Banshee, and Stinging Fly amongst others. Chandrika was selected to participate in the Irish Writers Centre’s XBorders programme 2018 and 2020, Poetry Ireland’s Introductions 2021, and Science Gallery Dublin’s Rapid Residency 2021. Chandrika was editor of Poetry Ireland’s Trumpet issue 9, is book reviewer for Children’s Books Ireland’s Inis magazine, and is on the Board of the Irish Writers Centre. She was Writer in Residence for the Institute of Physics for 2023.

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