In this helpful and informative talk, award-winning poet and novelist Brian Kirk shares his personal experience and insights into the mammoth task of developing a novel, touching on structure, story, and character development.
Brian Kirk is an award-winning poet, short story writer and novelist from Dublin. He has published two collections of poetry with Salmon Poetry, After The Fall (2017) and Hare’s Breath (2023). His poem “Birthday” won the Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2018. His short fiction chapbook It’s Not Me, It’s You won the Southword Fiction Chapbook Competition and was published by Southword Editions in 2019. He is a recipient of Professional Development and Agility Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland. His novel Riverrun was chosen as a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2022 and was shortlisted for the Spotlight First Novel Award 2023. His poetry has been featured on The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio One, Words Lightly Spoken Podcast and Eat The Storms Poetry Podcast. He is a member the Hibernian Writers’ Group.
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