Cork International Short Story Festival | Rosemary Jenkinson & Kirsty Logan Moderated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin

Rosemary Jenkinson is a poet, writer and up-all-nighter. Her latest, Laganside Lights, was published in 2025 by Arlen House. The Irish Times has praised her fiction for ‘an elegant wit, terrific characterization and an absolute sense of her own particular Belfast’. She is an Arts Council Major Artist and Royal Literary Fund fellow at Queen’s University. Kirsty Logan’s latest books are the story collection No & Other Love Stories and the memoir The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir. She is also the author of three novels, three story collections, two chapbooks, a 10-hour audio play for Audible, several collaborative projects with musicians and visual artists, and around 300 short stories.