Poetry, prose & spoken word on the themes of hope and resilience with Sue Divin, Tony Doherty, Abby Oliveira and `Queen Grace.

About this Event

Join the Bloody Sunday Trust for an evening of poetry, prose and spoken word on the themes of hope and resilience with acclaimed local writers Sue Divin, Tony Doherty, Abby Oliveira and musician Queen Grace.

Sue Divin is a Derry based writer, with Armagh roots. As a peace worker, her writing often touches on diversity, reconciliation, borders and the legacy of the Troubles. She has two YA novels, Truth Be Told, shortlisted in the Irish Book Awards and Carnegie short-listed Guard Your Heart.

Abby Oliveira is a Derry-based writer and performer whose work is often cross-discipline and collaborative; comprising poetry, storytelling, music, prose, playwriting, and/or physical storytelling. Her work has appeared in various publications, most recently The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working Class Voices, as well as in collaborations with The Mac Belfast and local and national radio.

Tony Doherty is a Derry writer whose trilogy of memoirs – This Man’s Wee Boy, The Dead Beside Us and The Skelper and Me – explore growing up in a working class Catholic community in Derry and the killing of his father on Bloody Sunday, joining the IRA as a young man and his subsequent imprisonment, and finally setting up the Bloody Sunday Justice campaign.

Queen Grace is a Derry-born musician, composer, sound designer and singing teacher based in Manchester. Her music explores Irish folk traditions and draws upon her experiences growing up in Derry. Her mission is to help keep the culture of Irish folk music and stories of Irish women in particular alive – hence her moniker inspired by the pirate Queen Gráinne O’Malley.