EIMEAR McBRIDE - "Other Ways In - Writing The City Changes Its Face"

Multi-award winning Irish novelist Eimear McBride will give this year's Annual Creative Writing Lecture supported by The University of Leicester Alumni Association. Eimear will be following in the footsteps of such wonderful writers as Marlon James, Val McDermid, Ben Okri, Edna O'Brien, Michael Morpurgo, Laura Esquivel, Jonathan Coe and more.

Eimear will be discussing the nuances of her writing processes, with particular reference to her new novel, The City Changes Its Face.

The lecture is very kindly funded by the University of Leicester Alumni Association, this year celebrating its centenary. It is hosted by the Centre for New Writing, the School for Arts, Media and Communication and the Literary Leicester Festival.

Eimear McBride grew up in the west of Ireland and trained at Drama Centre London before turning her attention to writing novels. Her books A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, The Lesser Bohemians and Strange Hotel have won numerous awards respectively, including the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In a 2018 Times Literary Supplement poll of 200 critics, Eimear was named one of the ten best British and Irish novelists writing today. Her latest novel is The City Changes Its Face (Faber 2025)

Book signings will, as always, be available after the event, care of our wonderful partner, Kibworth Books

Author photo: Kat Green
Cover: Design by Faber. Cover photograph © Dylan Cortez / dylancortez.com