Tim MacGabhann travelled to Belgrade, Serbia to become the second Writer in Residence at the Belgrade Irish Festival for the month of March 2025. The residency is a partnership between Literature Ireland and the Belgrade Irish Festival (Directed by Jas Kaminski).
The residency gave Tim the opportunity to spend time thinking and writing while exploring the multicultural city of Belgrade. The timing of the residency, coinciding with the festival, allowed Tim to participate fully in the life and culture of this vibrant and dynamic city and meet with local and international writers and artists.
Speaking of his time in Belgrade, Tim said:
"Overall the experience surpassed expectations, as I arrived with an open mind and a lot of curiosity about a region I'd long wanted to visit."
Tim MacGabhann
Tim MacGabhann is an Irish writer. His first two novels, Call Him Mine and How to Be Nowhere, were published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson. Other fiction, non-fiction and poetry has also appeared in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, The Tangerine, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Rialto, among others.
He is currently at work on a PhD with funding from CHASE at UEA. A memoir The Black Pool: A Memoir of Forgetting and a full poetry collection are forthcoming in 2025.
Posted to News on 22 Apr 2025.