Sinéad Gleeson

The Dock welcomes Sinéad Gleeson to Leitrim for a writer’s retreat by the River Shannon. On Thursday 26 June at 6pm, she will share insights into her debut novel Hagstone about artist Nell who is invited to create a new artwork for a reclusive community of women known as the Iníons. 

Sinéad regularly collaborates with artists and musicians including recently with Aideen Barry, Rachel Fallon and Alice Maher. She has worked on multidisciplinary commissions for The City Gallery Wellington, The Wellcome Collection, BBC and Frieze. We will hear about the art and artists who have influenced her work including Janet Cardiff, Dorothy Cross, Agnes Denes, and Ana Mendieta, among others.

Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life was a number one Irish bestseller. It was Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer, and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Michel Deon Prize.

Sinéad is the editor of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writer the North of Ireland, and The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories. With Kim Gordon, she edited This Woman’s Work: Essay on Music. She lives in Dublin.