The Dublin Review | Conversations 2021

CONVERSATIONS is an annual event where we invite contributors to the magazine to discuss their work. The theme for Conversations 2021 is Beginnings. Due to the Covid pandemic, this year’s event takes the form of a special edition Dublin Review podcast in which Aingeala Flannery is joined by four recent contributors to the magazine.

Brian Dillon is a writer, critic and essayist from Dublin. He has published seven books, including Essayism, Suppose A Sentence, and In The Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction in 2005. Brian lives in London and has been contributing non-fiction to The Dublin Review since 2003.

Tim MacGabhann is from County Kilkenny, but has been living in Mexico since 2013. He is a journalist, short story writer, poet and novelist. His debut novel Call Him Mine was published in 2019. The follow up How to be Nowhere came out in 2020. Tim has been contributing to The Dublin Review since 2019.

Chetna Maroo is a short story writer and novelist, whose fiction debut Western Lane will be published in Spring 2023. She began contributing to The Dublin Review in 2020, when her short story ‘Shoreline’ appeared in Number 79 of the magazine.

Ayşegül Savaş is a novelist, short story writer and essayist who grew up in London, Copenhagen and Istanbul. Her debut novel, Walking on the Ceiling, was published in 2019. Her second novel, White on White will be published in early 2022. She has been contributing to The Dublin Review since 2019.