13 April,
Fiction / In Conversation /
The Short Story: Lucy Sweeney Byrne and Clare-Lise Kieffer
Sunday, 13 April 2025, 6:00pm
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop / Free
Join us for a conversation between two of the most interesting short story writers in Ireland today.
Tenterhooks by Claire-Lise Kieffer, weaves together darkly humorous and surreal stories of an Ireland at once familiar and otherworldly, exploring the fragile bonds between people and places in moments of crisis, transformation, and haunting discovery.
Claire-Lise Kieffer has stories published in Banshee, Crossways, the Honest Ulsterman, Profiles and more. Her flash fiction Woodlice Lessons was a winner in the Books Ireland competition, and her poetry was shortlisted in the Cúirt and Fish Publishing competitions. Her debut collection of short stories, Tenterhooks, was published in 2025 with Banshee Press. She was an Agility Award recipient in 2022 and again in 2024. She has just finished writing a novel titled Rules for entering the kingdom.
Event Location
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop
The Cornstore, Middle St, Galway
Back to What's OnThe Cornstore entrances are step free but have limited wheelchair access due to the width of the doors. The venue has internal steps with limited space to navigate with certain mobility
aids. The street entrance has a step. There is one accessible parking space on Middle Street immediately outside, and three spaces on Saint Augustine Street. There are no accessible public
bathrooms.
There is no Loop system.
