“[Gavin Corbett is] a wonderful new voice”
Joseph O’Neill

This event brings together two of the most exciting and original new voices in Irish fiction to discuss their work with RTÉ’s Paula Shields. “Every sentence throbs with power” wrote Emma Donoghue of This is the Way, Gavin Corbett’s award-winning debut. His new work, Green Glowing Skull, is a delirious comedy set in Manhattan, where a young Irish immigrant arrives with dreams of reinventing himself as a tenor.

“[Lisa McInerney is] totally and unmistakably the real deal”
Kevin Barry

Lisa McInerney’s blog about life on a Galway council estate prompted The Irish Times to describe her as “the most talented writer at work today in Ireland”. Her first novel, The Glorious Heresies, delivers on that promise with a darkly comic tale of five post-boom misfits drawn together by murder. Find Smock Alley Theatre here...