Seeing the World as a Writer With Eoin McNamee

Writing reflects how you see the world. If you can inhabit the world as a writer, as an artist, the world in turn gives back to you, offering the right words, the shape of a sentence, the structure of a paragraph.

Suitable for prose writers of all levels, this fiction workshop with acclaimed novelist Eoin McNamee, author of The Bureau (Quercus, 2025) and Director of the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in Dublin, will explore Francis Bacon’s dictum that the job of all art is to deepen the mystery.

Eoin McNamee is the author of eight novels including The Bureau (Quercus, 2025), Resurrection Man, later filmed, and the Blue Trilogy. His work has been nominated for and won many major prizes including the Man Booker Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, the Kerry Fiction Prize, the Imison Award and the CWA Steel Dagger.

Liam McIllvaney said of McNamee's prose that it has the 'cadenced majesty of McCarthy or DeLillo, but the vision it enacts is all his own.' Most recently, Eoin was part of the writers room for Netflix’s Vikings Valhalla series