Nollaig na mBan 2024
Bodies of Work
Tickets will go on sale at 11am on Wednesday 6 December 2023
Tickets are €25 (€23) Available HERE
Venue : Irish Writers Centre Dublin
We are thrilled to present the 2024 edition of our annual Nollaig na mBan celebration. Taking place from 7.00pm–9.30pm on Saturday 6 January, 2024 at the Irish Writers Centre (Dublin 1), Nollaig na mBan (AKA Women’s Christmas or Little Christmas) will showcase the extraordinary achievements of women writers in Ireland.
This year’s theme is BODIES OF WORK, a celebration of our incredible Irish women writers working in different literary forms. With award-winning poet Jessica Traynor as the MC, the audience will be guided through a variety of different literary genres that Irish women writers have showcased throughout their careers including fiction, poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction and more.
Expect incredible readings of new pieces of work commissioned specially for Nollaig na mBan 2024. Participating writers include novelist Christine Dwyer Hickey, short story writer and novelist Jan Carson, poet Nessa O’Mahony, and broadcaster, Gaeilgeoir, writer and producer Ola Majekodunmi. Also featured is Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann, an organisation that aims to defend the right of writers to freedom of expression, where we will remember and embrace our writer peers across the globe who struggle with censorship and imprisonment, some of whom have died for the freedom to write unshackled.
We will also celebrate Ireland’s thriving literary journal scene, by spotlighting literary journals created and curated by women writers through a series of soapbox performances. Channel, gorse, Howl and Sonder Magazine will be featured and there will be readings from their editors.
Musical entertainment will be provided by the wonderful Ellie O’Neill. Ellie’s songwriting explores intimacy, love, loss, and queerness.
Ticket price includes a complimentary glass of wine.
Book Swap
As in previous years, we’re encouraging those attending to take part in a New Year’s Kris Kindle extravaganza. Bring along a much-loved book by a woman writer, wrap it and label or tag it with a description of no more than three lines. If you bring a book, you go home with one too!