Associate Director of Creative Writing, Mary Morrissy, will be reading from her latest collection of stories, Prosperity Drive, at Waterstones book shop in Cork on Thursday, November 3, at 7pm. http://www.waterstones.com/bookshops/cork She will be sharing the podium with  Jess Kidd, whose debut novel, Himself, is just out with Canongate. http://jesskidd.com/

Mary is fresh back from her travels which included an event at  the Ottawa International Writers Festival (October 22) http://www.writersfestival.org  – with Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay (All That Man Is),  and an invited reading at Holy Cross College, Worcester – near Boston – on October 27, co-sponsored by the Edward Callahan Support Fund for Irish Studies and the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters. http://www.holycross.edu/