Spring/Summer 2022

In January Amanda was a guest reader at a hybrid new year's event organised by the Cercle Littéraire Irlandais. She had two haiku selected for the Museum of Haiku in Blithe Spirit, and her haibun 'Visible Mending' will be featured on the 'Threads' episode of Keywords, which is broadcast on RTE Radio 1 on Sunday evenings at 7pm.

This October Amanda was awarded a Literature Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland, to work on an historical novel.

Amanda has panels of haiku in two exhibitions in Delft (The Netherlands), opening on 3 September in the Vermeer Centrum and the Oude Kerk.

She appeared at Holocaust Awareness Ireland's event in Dublin Castle on 28th September, reading 'Visible Mending' a commissioned response to 'The Objects of Love' exhibition. She also took part in a panel discussion chaired by Roddy Doyle. She gave a poetry reading at Bray Literary Festival on 30th September.

Here is Amanda's q&a with Eleanor Hooker in Books Ireland

Amanda was judging the haibun competition for the British Haiku Society this February; you can read the report here. She will be reading at Cork World Book Festival on 20th April with Nithy Kasa and William Wall (Poet Laureate of Cork), and at Limerick Literary Festival and Cork Harbour Festival, dates tbc. Riptide will be given an in-person launch alongside Nithy Kasa's debut and David Butler's Liffey Sequence at Poetry Ireland on 11 May.