This year we are thrilled to welcome Louise O’Neill as our Yours Sincerely writer in residence. In this exciting project from The LIVE Network, this renowned author correspond with a group in the community through letter writing over a period of six weeks. Louise will pen letters to a group of correspondents from mid-September to the end of October. There will be a virtual cup of tea at the end of the six weeks for the group and the author to chat.

Yours Sincerely 2022 follows on the great success of our project with author Patrick DeWitt in 2021. All letters remain within the group and participants are welcome to write back to the author. The experience is an opportunity to connect with others in your community and with a writer, in a personal way. The project has become known for its intimacy and humour; a unique opportunity to receive a written letter through the post from the hands of a respected artist.

This is a free project but places limited, book your place by emailing admin@backstage.ie today

Louise O’Neill is the award-winning author of Asking For it, Idol, The Surface Breaks and After the Silence. have all had widespread critical acclaim. She has won accolades at the Irish Book Awards on several occasions and her books have been best sellers nationally and globally. She has a weekly column in the Sunday Times and is considered one of Ireland’s most important voices in fiction and YA.