The Small Trans Library , UCD Centre for Gender, Feminism & Sexualities and UCD School of English, Drama, Film & Creative Writing invite you to JOIN

CAT FITZPATRICK BISHAKH SOM SOULA EMMANUEL JAMES HUDSON & EMMA TOBIN

for a night of REVELRY, JOY and LITERATURE

At the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Dublin

DOORS at 6pm - READING at 6:30pm

DRINKS RECEPTION at 7:30 pm

*Tickets are Free but should be booked in advance*

This is a HIGHLY INTELLECTUAL AND RESPECTABLE TRANSGENDER EVENT which will not be chaotic or anarchic at all even slightly

PERFORMERS

BISHAKH SOM

is a cartoonist, goth, and former architect whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Boston Review, among other venues. She wrote the Graphic Memoir Spellbound, and the Graphic Fiction Apsara Engine, for which she won a Lambda Literary Award

CAT FITZPATRICK

is the Editrix at LittlePuss Press and the soi-disant 'Energiser Bunny of Transsexuals'. Her first novel, The Call-Out (nominated for a 2023 Lambda Literary Award) is out from Seven Stories Press

SOULA EMMANUEL

was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Greek father. She is proudly an autistic trans writer. She currently lives on Ireland’s east coast. Her first novel, Wild Geese, is out from Footnote Press

JAMES HUDSON

is a writer from Dublin. His writing is published with Monstrous Regiment, Southword Editions, The Stinging Fly, The Liminal Review, Channel and Neon Hemlock. He is the editor of VERY ONLINE and TOWER , and works with the Small Trans Library

EMMA TOBIN

is a poet from Newbridge, Co Kildare, who has been published in Poetry Ireland Review  The Irish Times and  Caveat Lector. In 2021 they received the Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award from Poetry Ireland

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