Led by Seamus Heaney Centre lecturer Sam Thompson, we invite you to come and listen to special guests Ian MacDonald and R.B Kelly. All three discuss their inspirations, read passages from their novels, as well as answer your burning questions on all things writing science/speculative fiction. 

Sam Thompson is a novelist, and lecturer in Creative Writing at The Seamus Heaney Centre. He is the author of the novels Communion Town and Jott, the children’s novels Wolfstongue, The Fox’s Tower and The Forest Yet to Come, and the story collection Whirlwind Romance. His work has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Edge Hill Prize and a British Science Fiction Association Award, has been shortlisted for the Encore Prize, has won a Spark School Book Award and a Literacy Association of Ireland Biennial Book Award, and has been chosen as an Outstanding International Book by the US Board on Books for Young People.