As part of our Oct 19, 2024 event, John O’Donnell gave an excellent talk on the craft of writing, the ways in which we sometimes get stuck, and how we can get unstuck.
John O’Donnell’s work has been published and broadcast widely. Awards include the Irish National Poetry Prize, New Irish Writing Awards for Poetry and Fiction, and the RTE Francis McManus Short Story Award. He has published five poetry collections. His first short story collection Almost the Same Blue (Doire Press) was a Sunday Independent ‘Book of the Year’. Rainbow Baby, an RTE radio play, won a New York Festivals Radio Award. His documentary about the 1979 Fastnet disaster, Back To The Rock, was broadcast on RTE’s Doc On One. An Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair winner in 2024, his debut novel Second Skin is forthcoming, as is a new short story collection.
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