Alluvium Special Issue: 21st Century Irish Women's Writing
updated:
Monday, December 7, 2020 - 9:47am
Alluvium, Journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS)
deadline for submissions:
Friday, December 18, 2020
We find ourselves at an exciting moment as scholars of contemporary Irish writing – Irish literature is, as the Irish Times points out, ‘having a moment’.
As some commentators have noted, both established and emerging female writers are disproportionately represented in the thriving contemporary Irish literary scene. Canonical figures like Anne Enright and Edna O’Brien continue to publish new work. The last two winners of the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award – Danielle McLaughlin and Niamh Campbell – are Irish women, both of them relatively new to writing. In 2018, Anna Burns became the first woman from Northern Ireland to win the Man Booker Prize.