Hawthornden Brooklyn in Conversation: November 2025 Writers in Residence

Current Hawthornden Brooklyn writers in residence Carina del Valle Schorske, Selali Fiamanya, Julie Innis, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Sarah Tarlow and A.J. Rodriguez will read and discuss their work. Taylor & Co. Books will have the authors' books available for sale.

Doors open at 6:00 PM. Space is limited.

If you will need accessible seating, or have any other questions, please email [email protected]. You can learn more about Hawthornden Brooklyn here.

Carina del Valle Schorske

Carina del Valle Schorske is a writer and translator. Her work explores intimate histories of empire, migration, and creative survival in the Caribbean and beyond. Her writing appears in many publications including The Believer, The New Yorker, Bookforum, and The New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. Her debut essay collection, The Other Island, is forthcoming from Riverhead.

Selali Fiamanya

Selali Fiamanya is a novelist from Glasgow, Scotland. He co-founded the community-oriented zine collectives People of Content and whut?. He’s an alumnus of writing workshops Black Gay Ink and The Future Is Back, and won a place on Curtis Brown Creative’s inaugural Breakthrough Novel-Writing Course for Black Writers. His debut novel Before We Hit the Ground won the Borough Press Open Submission 2021 and was runner up for the JJ Bola and PONTAS Emerging Writer’s Prize. He can quote the film Sister Act 2 line-for-line, riff-for-riff. He can’t write without a deadline.

Julie Innis

Julie Innis is the author of the story collection Three Squares a Day with Occasional Torture. Her work has appeared in Willow Springs, Post Road, The Greensboro Review and elsewhere, and has received recognition from The Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology and the Larry Brown Short Story Award, among others.

Annemarie Ní Churreáin 

Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht in the north west of Ireland. Her books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021) and Ghostgirl (Donegal Archives, 2023). Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award for Best Debut Collection (IRE) and for the Ledbury Hellens Best Second Collection (UK). Her awards include the Irish Arts Council’s Next Generation Artist Award, The Markievicz Award and The Kavanagh Fellowship. As a librettist she co-created the text for Elsewhere – the critically acclaimed debut opera of Straymaker (IRE) in co-production with the Abbey National Theatre of Ireland. Ní Churreáin is a former literary fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude (GR) and has served as an Ambassador for Writing in Irish prisons. She is the 2025 Writer in Residence at University College Dublin. Ní Churreáin is the poetry editor at The Stinging Fly magazine. 

A.J. Rodriguez

A.J. Rodriguez was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Oregon’s MFA program. His work has been awarded the Granum Foundation Prize and received support from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Kerouac Project, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. His stories have won CRAFT’s Flash Fiction Contest, the Swamp Pink Fiction Prize, second place in Salamander’s Fiction Contest, and the Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction from Pleiades. His fiction also appears in New England Review, Passages North, The Common, and elsewhere.

Sarah Tarlow

Sarah Tarlow is professor of historical archaeology at the University of Leicester. She is also a mother, a widow and an aspiring writer. She lives in Leicestershire, and works part-time at the university, while trying to develop her non-academic writing. The Archaeology of Loss, her well-received memoir, was published in 2023. It placed her 25 years of professional interest in the archaeology of death and burial alongside the long illness and death, in 2016, of her husband, Mark.

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