LAUNCH: Oddbody | Rose Keating in conversation with Cathy Sweeney
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Join us to celebrate the launch of Rose Keating’s debut short story collection, Oddbody. Rose will be in conversation with author Cathy Sweeney, starting at 6.30pm on Wednesday 6th August. All are welcome and a spot can be reserved using the booking form below.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Oddbody is a collection of ten bold and unsettling short stories that confront themes of desire, fear and shame, each one asking how far the bounds of the human form can be pushed, stretched – and subverted.
In the title story, a woman finds herself navigating a co-dependent relationship with a ghost. Then, in Eggshells, a waitress gives birth to an egg during her breakfast shift. In another called Squirm, a young woman deals with the restraints of having to stay at home and look after her father who has become a worm, living in a compost pile in the bathtub.
Through playful but provocative prose, Rose Keating traverses a realm both dreamlike and nightmarish, exposing – to the bone – the absurdities and horrors of the feminine experience. Oddbody prods a finger at societal norms, gleefully turns familiar tropes on their head and announces Keating as an audacious new voice in Irish fiction.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ROSE KEATING is a writer from Waterford, Ireland. She studied on the Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA at UEA, where she was a recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize. She is a winner of the Marian Keyes Young Writer Award, the Hot Press Write Here, Write Now prize and the Ted and Mary O’Regan Arts Bursary. She has been published in the Stinging Fly, Apex Magazine, Banshee and Southword. In 2022, she received an Agility Award from the Irish Arts Council.
CATHY SWEENEY is a writer living in Ireland. Her short fiction has been published in the Stinging Fly, the Dublin Review, Egress , Winter Papers , Banshee and the Tangerine, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her debut short story collection, Modern Times, was published in 2020 and her debut novel, Breakdown, in 2024.
