Name: Ailbhe Malone, Salma El-Wardany & Jane Casey in conversation - Islington
Start: 2026-03-17T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-17T20:30:00+00:00
Location: Waterstones

Ailbhe Malone, Salma El-Wardany & Jane Casey in conversation - Islington

Join Ailbhe Malone, Salma El-Wardany & Jane Casey in reclaiming the stories of women who have too long stood in the shadows of warriors.
About this Event

In the spellbinding anthology Banshee, Ireland's most electrifying female writers breathe new life into ancient Irish myths.
Join us with Ailbhe Malone, Salma El-Wardany & Jane Casey in reclaiming the stories of women who have too long stood in the shadows of warriors and kings.
Banshee transports you to treacherous landscapes and salt-crashing seas, generational curses and mystical islands. Here you'll find unruly mothers, rule-breaking queens, and women outrunning their destiny - stories pulsing with desire, danger and defiance.This is a celebration of womanhood - and an homage to the ancient stories that still shape us.
Ailbhe Malone lives in London and is Senior Editor at the Strategist (New York Magazine). She has also worked for the Guardian, Irish Times, Wired and Nylon (US). Educated at Trinity College Dublin, Ailbhe spent summers in the west of Ireland, surrounded by the foundations of legends featured in this collection. From learning about the salmon of knowledge from a seanchaí to reading Sinéad de Valera’s Irish Fairy Tales under the covers at night, she gobbled up every variant of folktale she could find. Yet the women of these legends are rarely the protagonists, even in the stories named after them. Banshee asks: why not let the women lead?
Jane Casey is the author of 19 novels including the bestselling and award-winning Maeve Kerrigan series, The Killing Kind which was adapted for television in 2024, and the Jess Tennant series for teenagers. Her next book, Everything She Didn't Say, will be published in June 2026.Salma El-Wardany is an author, poet, international speaker, and broadcaster. She is the author of These Impossible Things, which was released to global critical acclaim in June 2022. For the last six years she has presented on BBC Radio London, most recently, The Breakfast Show. She has just stepped down to focus on writing her second novel, and the TV adaptation of her first novel. Salma is also a two-time TEDx speaker, a global keynote speaker, and she writes for publications such as The i, HuffPost, and Red Magazine. Salma’s work centres on feminism and gender, revolving around bringing female stories into the spotlight.