Awards + Residencies
The Arts Council is pleased to announce Writer in Residence/Fellowship appointments for 2022
Sue Rainsford has been appointed as Writer in Residence at University College Dublin.
WRITERS-IN-RESIDENCE APPOINTED FOR 2019/20
Maynooth University Department of English and Kildare County Council Arts and Library Services are thrilled to announce the appointment of Annemarie Ní Churrreáin and Sue Rainsford as Writers-in-Residence for 2019/20.
MacDowell colony
Sue Rainsford amongst 87 fall and winter fellowships awarded at the MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire. While at MacDowell she will be working on her second novel, Redder Days.
The Freud Project Residency
While on residency at IMMA, Sue Rainsford and Bridget O’Gorman expanded their ongoing research project, entitled A Knowing Body, in repsonse to Lucian Freud’s assertion ‘I want the paint to feel like flesh’. October 2017-April 2018.
Arts council literature bursary award
Sue Rainsford is a three-time recipient of the Literature Bursary Award. She first received a bursary in 2013 while was working on her debut novel, Follow Me To Ground, and has since received bursaries in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
VAI/DCC ART WRITING AWARD
Visual Artists Ireland, in partnership with Dublin City Council's The LAB Gallery and AICA Ireland, awarded Sue Rainsford the 2016-2017 Art Writing Award.
writer in residence at rac
“Our writer in residence programme continues into 2019 where writer & researcher Sue Rainsford and Joanne Laws expand the scope of writing about selected projects and exhibitions from our visual art programme.”
Follow Me To Ground receives the 2019 Kate O’Brien Award.
The Kate O'Brien Award was established in 2015 and celebrates new Irish writing by a female author. The 2019 shortlisted nominees wereEileen Battersby’s Teethmarks On My Tongue, Rebecca O'Connor’s He is Mine And I Have No Other, Caroline O’Donoghue’s Promising Young Women and Dervla McTiernan’s The Ruin.
Previous years’ winners include Sara Baume, Sally Rooney and Lisa Harding.