Wednesday, April 16, 2025 7pm
About this Event
234 W. Hancock Ave, Athens, GA 30601
Seán Hewitt, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for his 2022 memoir All Down Darkness Wide, will give a public reading from his new book followed by a moderated conversation. The event is presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of its Global Georgia public events series.
Hewitt will read from his forthcoming novel Open, Heaven, which will be published in the U.S. on April 15 by Penguin Random House.
Hewitt was born in 1990. His earlier works include J. M. Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism and the poetry collection Tongues of Fire, which was awarded the Laurel Prize and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and a Dalkey Literary Award. He is the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award, the Resurgence Prize and an Eric Gregory Award. Hewitt is a book critic for the Irish Times and teaches modern British and Irish literature at Trinity College Dublin, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
User Activity
No recent activity