Conversations with the Contemporary
Conversations with the Contemporary
Style is the writer’s ghost in the language machine: a series of decisions about what to write and how to write it which is both unconscious and deliberate. With this series UCD Writer in Residence Niamh Campbell is delighted to invite eight writers to describe and discuss their process, craft, and the context of contemporary life – a world mediated by the internet, ruminating on recent history, making room for new stories, or pushing back against these – in relation to their work and their sense of style. We will talk about possible selves, multiple selves, found or concrete iterations of ‘self’; the self online, the self on drugs, the embodied or disembodied self; destruction, confession, reconstitution, and the experience of launching a debut.

Eimear Ryan and Megan Nolan on the theme of female debuts
Conversations with the Contemporary
Eimear Ryan and Megan Nolan look at the theme of female debuts.

Christodoulos Makris and Kimberly Campanello on concrete poetry and process
Conversations with the Contemporary
Christodoulos Makris and Kimberly Campanello look at concrete poetry and process.

Adrian Duncan and Sue Rainsford on the theme of art writing and creative writing
Conversations with the Contemporary
Adrian Duncan and Sue Rainsford look at the theme of art writing and creative writing.

Lauren Oyler and Kevin Power on theme of contemporaneity
Conversations with the Contemporary
Lauren Oyler and Kevin Power look at theme of contemporaneity