Yours Sincerely

Patrons Note: This Project is now fully booked.

The Yours Sincerely Project is back this September with writer Sophie White as your correspondent.

As part of our LIVE NETWORK programme, 'Yours Sincerely' will see Sophie and you as participants pen five letters to each other over the course of five weeks, with the option of meeting up on Zoom in the end over a cup of tea. In the past letters have covered a multitude of topics from world affairs to home truths with both writer and correspondents gaining a valuable insight into each other's lives. (All letters are confidential).

This project which runs from September 22nd-November 3rd in=s now fully booked.

Sophie White is a novelist, essayist and podcaster from Dublin. She also holds a First-Class Honours degree in Sculpture from NCAD. She is the author of seven books and she is currently the Arts Council Writer in Residence in DCU. Her first four books, Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown (Gill 2016), Filter This (Hachette, 2019), Unfiltered (Hachette, 2020) and The Snag List (Hachette, 2022) have been all bestsellers and award nominees. Her fifth book, the bestselling memoir Corpsing (Tramp Press, 2021), was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction. Her sixth book, Where I End (Tramp Press, 2022) was described as “brilliantly visceral” by the Guardian and “exquisite and disturbing, brutish and beautifully crafted” by The Irish Times. It won the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel 2022. Her seventh book and fifth novel, My Hot Friend (Hachette, 2023) has just landed in bookshops.

Sophie writes a weekly column ‘Nobody Tells You’ for the Sunday Independent LIFE magazine and her journalism has been nominated for numerous media awards. TV adaptations of her first two books are in development and she co-hosts the chart-topping comedy podcasts, Mother of Pod and The Creep Dive.