Indicative texts: ‘Goodbye to all that’, from Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion (USA, 1967) An Angel at My Table, Janet Frame (New Zealand, 1989) The Dept of Speculation, Jenny Offil (USA, 2014) The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson (USA, 2015) Outline (2014), Transit (2016), Kudos (2018), Rachel Cusk (UK) Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, Yiyun Li (USA/ China, 2017) Where Reasons End, Yiyun Li (USA/ China, 2019) Break.up, Joanna Walsh (UK, 2018) Can You Tolerate This?, Ashleigh Young (New Zealand, 2018) Blueberries, Ellena Savage (Australia, 2020) Notes From an Apocalypse, Mark O’Connell (Ireland, 2020) A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Ireland, 2020) The Disconnect, Roisín Kiberd (Ireland, 2021)