Sinéad Gleeson is a writer and editor whose essays have appeared in Granta, Winter Papers, Gorse and Banshee. Her short stories have been published in the anthologies Looking at the Stars, The Broken Spiral, Repeal the 8th and Being Various: New Irish Writing (Faber, May 2019). She is the editor of three short story anthologies, including The Long Gaze Back: an Anthology of Irish Women Writers (2015) and The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland (2016), both of which won Best Irish Published Book at the Irish Book Awards. The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories will be published in 2020 by Head of Zeus. Her debut collection of essays, Constellations: Reflections from Life was published by Picador in 2019, and focuses on the body, illness, motherhood, art and writing. She is the 2019 Writer-in Residence at University College, Dublin, where she teaches creative writing and is working on a novel. See more details here.

This is a ticketed event, a booking fee of €8.00 applies. Concession and IMMA Members €3.50. All tickets holders must bring booked ticket/s and valid ID if applicable to gain entry. Doors open at 12.45. Last admittance is at 12.55 /Doors close at 13.00.

Please note this talk is presented by IMMA and takes place at an offsite location of the Light House Cinema – Screen 2, Smithfield, Dublin 7.