THE MEMORISERS
Yellow House Publishing are delighted to work with Rosemary Jenkinson in publishing her debut dystopian novel “The Memorisers” under the nom de plume of Jo Eliot. As research for The Memorisers, Rosemary travelled five times to war-torn Ukraine. Spending time in the frontline city of Kherson and experiencing Zaporizhzhia under drone attack has provided Rosemary with the impetus to imagine the Russo-Ukrainian war spreading West.
Rosemary Jenkinson is an award-winning short story author and playwright with a swathe of literary successes to her credit. She received a Major Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and was artist-in-residence at the Lyric Theatre Belfast and Leuven College for Irish Studies. Her most recent short story collection is Love in the Time of Chaos, which was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2023. Rosemary’s most recent play is Silent Trade and she is working on her next play commissioned by The Abbey Theatre Dublin. She is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen’s University. The Irish Times has praised her fiction for ‘an elegant wit, terrific characterisation and an absolute sense of her own particular Belfast’.
Launching: Part of the Out to Lunch Festival Belfast The Green Room 19th Jan 2025 @15:00 Tickets £5 available from the festival organisers.