This Thursday is the faculty's final Writers-in-Residence event of the term, with Catherine Talbot hosting best-selling writer and documentary maker Manchán Magan and award-winning poet Sean Borodale. All are welcome! The event takes place in person and is also livestreamed.
Manchán Magan is a writer and documentary-maker. He has written books on his travels in Africa, India, and South America and two novels. His books Thirty-Two Words For Field and Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Words For Nature are acclaimed best-sellers. His latest book is Listen to the Land.
Sean Borodale is a poet and an artist whose print, text, installation, performance, radio and poetry draws on a live, scripted process of writing. His works include his debut collection Bee Journal, nominated for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Book Award. Other volumes include Human Work, Asylum, and Inmates. He lectures in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway.
Catherine Talbot's debut novel A Good Father was an Irish Times bestseller. As Maynooth Writer-in-Residence, she is working on her second novel.