About the event

What would you do if you discovered you had special powers? In these two novels set in Ireland, the young heroines must draw on their supernatural talents to save the ones they love.

Chaired by Eris Young

About the speakers

Deirdre Sullivan is an award-winning writer from Galway. As well as the Primrose Leary trilogy (Prim Improper, Improper Order and Primperfect) she has written three books in the Nightmare Club series, a standalone Novel, Needlework, a collection of fairy-tale retellings, Tangleweed and Brine and a gothic horror YA called Perfectly Preventable Deaths. When Deirdre is not writing she is a reader and a guinea pig enthusiast. She still likes cake, but she’s been hearing some good things about biscuits recently.

Originally from the south of England, Nina Oram lives in the West of Ireland with her Irish partner and a black cat called Cara.  She writes fantasy and horror short stories, using Irish, British and European folklore as her inspiration, and particular enjoys playing with the idea that ancient myths and legends are still with us, lying largely undetected beneath the science and veneer of the modern world.  She has had short stories published in Ireland, the UK and the US.  While completing her YA fantasy trilogy, The Joining, she continues to write short stories and to work on her first adult, horror novel, The Crooked God.

Find out more about Deirdre Sullivan and Nina Oram!