Public Lecture – How to Write a Novel

Carlow College Lecturer in English & Creative Writing, Eoghan Smith, will draw on his own experience of writing a novel and the insights of other novelists. This lecture will mark the publication of his third novel A Mind of Winter.

About the speaker

Eoghan Smith is the author of the novels The Failing Heart (Dedalus, 2018), A Provincial Death (Dedalus, 2022) and A Mind of Winter (Dedalus, 2023).

He has contributed essays, articles and reviews to a wide variety of publications, including The Irish Times, Books Ireland, The Literary Review, The Dublin Review of Books, the Irish University Review, and the Irish Studies Review. He has also written a monograph on John Banville and was the co-editor of a collection of essays on Irish suburban literary and visual cultures. 

Eoghan teaches English literature across Carlow College’s undergraduate programmes, as well as the popular part-time course, Certificate in Creative Writing (Fiction).