13 April,

Fiction / In Conversation /

The Short Story: Rebecca Ivory 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.

Free Therapy by Rebecca Ivory delves into the inner lives of men and women fluent in the language of therapy, yet trapped by their own unwillingness to change. Through sharp observations and wry humor, Ivory explores the complexities of desire, connection, and the soft insecurities that lie beneath the surface of modern life.

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.

Rebecca Ivory is a writer based in Dublin. Her short fiction has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Banshee, The Tangerine and Fallow Media.

In 2020, she was awarded a Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. Her first collection of stories, Free Therapy, was published by Jonathan Cape in March 2024.

Event Location

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop

The Cornstore, Middle St, Galway

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The 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.