My keynote address for the @EastSideArtsBel 'Showcase of Writing from Northern Ireland' Symposium is now online! Watch my talk, '"This Must Be the Place": Mapping Contemporary Women's Writing from Northern Ireland,' here: #NIWritingShowcase #ACNISupported

2/ I cover work by: @ClaireAllan @beingvarious @JanCarson7280 @svjdempz @DevlinMartina @SusannahDickey @WednesdayErskin @michellegallen @staceygreggles @rosemaryj77 @KennedyLoulou @berniemcgill @inkstainsclaire @LisaMMcGee @shirleyannemcm @Roisin_ODonnell #NIWritingShowcase

3/ & I cover Anna Burns #Milkman ( @FaberBooks) Maggie O'Farrell #Hamnet ( @TinderPress) @GeraldineQuigle @TaraWestBelfast @sheenawriter @jozebwrites. I discuss reissued texts by Caroline Blackwood ( @nyrbclassics) Linda Anderson & Janet McNeill ( @turnpikebooks)! #NIWritingShowcase

4/ I also cover NI anthologies: The Female Line, ed. Ruth Carr ( @HerselfPress @AverillB); #BelfastStories eds. @paul_mc_veigh & @lisaunderneath ( @Doirepress); #TheGlassShore ed. by @sineadgleeson; & #FemaleLines ed. by myself & Linda Anderson ( @NewIslandBooks)! #NIWritingShowcase

5/ Featuring sneak previews of 3 short story collections: @beingvarious, Intimacies ( @FaberBooks); @JanCarson7280 The Last Resort ( @DoubledayUK) & @KennedyLoulou, The End of the World is A Cul de Sac ( @BloomsburyBooks) plus @staceygreggles film Here Before ( @BBCFilm & @NIScreen)!

6/ I hope this overview of contemporary NI women's fiction, TV & film is a good starting point & will introduce you to some new favourites. I'll post the reading list soon. Happy to chat & answer q's so feel free to get in touch! @ArtsCouncilNI @ACNIWriting #NIWritingShowcase

Perhaps of interest to: @GUGlobalIrish @BCIrishStudies @NDIrishStudies @CAIS_Irish @MoLI_Museum @simplesimon_ie @Lit_Ireland @MIH_Edin @rickoshea @LisaMMcGee @MaryMcAuliffe4 @thelinenhall @wcorklitfest @BelfastBooks @BelfastBookFest @The_JHS @Irish_Lit @CultureNightBel @GIHNYU