Join short-story writer, playwright and poet Rosemary Jenkinson for an entertaining reading from her latest works followed by an interview.

Rosemary Jenkinson is a short-story writer, playwright, poet, essayist, memoirist and cultural commentator from Belfast. She particularly loves the short story as she fervently believes life is too short for long literature. Her sixth collection of short stories Love in the Time of Chaos (Arlen House, 2023) was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story prize. The Irish Times has praised her fiction for ‘an elegant wit, terrific characterisation and an absolute sense of her own particular Belfast’. 

Rosemary has had over twenty plays produced internationally. The Bonefire (Rough Magic, 2006) won the Stewart Parker BBC Radio award. Her latest poetry collection is Sandy Row Riots. She likes to write edgy work often based on people she meets in the pub and considers it her mission to record personal Troubles stories before they disappear, much as the Gaelic revivalists used to record local folk tales. Writing is her passion; she doesn’t fit her writing into her life but her life into her writing. She was an Arts Council major artist followed by-writer-in-residence at the Lyric Theatre Belfast, Leuven College of Irish Studies and Centre Culturel Irlandais. She is the current Royal Literary Fund fellow at Queen's University.