Event for students of MA in creative writing. 

Niamh Mulvey’s story Stringing up the Brides from the anthology , concerns a young couple planning their wedding. She explores with wit and insight themes including marriage, relationships, communication, and societal expectation. Mulvey will be in conversation with fellow author and poet Seán Hewitt, along with his creative writing students in TCD, as they explore the art of the short story.

Niamh Mulvey is a writer from Kilkenny. Her first novel, The Amendments was published in April 2024 and nominated for an An Post Irish Book Award.” Her first book, a short story collection, Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth, was published in 2022 and was shortlisted for the John McGahern award.

Seán Hewitt is the author of two poetry collections, Tongues of Fire and Rapture’s Road, and a memoir, All Down Darkness Wide. He collaborated with the artist Luke Edward Hall on 300,000
Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World. Hewitt has received the Laurel Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. He lectures at Trinity College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.