This programme features Conal Creedon on Campus in the O’Rahilly Building. Conal is an internationally renowned Cork novelist, short story writer, playwright and broadcaster. He was writer in residence at UCC from 2016 to 2017. In 2018 he was appointed Adjunct Professor. His most recent novel is Begotten, Not Made(2018).

Niamh Boyce is the featured guest author at Fiction at the Friary. Niamh won the 2012 Hennessy New Writer of the Year Award and Emerging Poetry Award. She was named Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2013 for her debut novel The Herbalist. Here she reads from her second novel Her Kind, which tells the story of Ireland’s first witchcraft trial.

The Open Mic readers are Conor McManus, Oonagh Montague and Laura McKenna.