Join us as we welcome William Keohane to Juno Books. WIlliam will be discussing his debut book Out There in coversation with And Other Stories senior fiction editor Tara Tobler.
Out There is a generous and beautiful memoir of gender transition and the ties that bind us to family, language and landscape
‘How do you make a life in an unliveable present, when the path to change is impossibly slow?’
Gender transition doesn’t happen in a clinic, nor does it unfold in a straight line. For poet William Keohane, it is a journey mapped across words, names, and the Irish landscape. As Will navigates the endless waiting for referrals, appointments, hormones, and surgery, he compassionately charts the many people and places that have shaped his life – both with their love and their willingness to change alongside him. At once sparkling and meditative, with prose of undeniable eddying force, Out There is a universal reflection on transformation and becoming, which asks just how much has to change before we’re seen as who we are.
William Keohane is a writer from Limerick. His essays have been published in The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review, among others. Boxing Day, a poetry performance, has toured internationally. William is currently completing a PhD in poetry at Queen's University Belfast. Out There is his first book.
Tara Tobler is a writer, a critic, and the senior fiction editor at And Other Stories. Her acquisitions include works by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, as translated by Lin King), Banu Mushtaq (winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize, as translated by Deepa Bhasthi), Manya Wilkinson, Alexis Wright, Ibtisam Azem, Mona Arshi, Tanya Tagaq, Morgan Talty, Preti Taneja, and Cody Caetano. She lives in the Peak District.
The talk will start at 6.30pm and last for around 45 minutes, with 15 minutes afterwards for audience Q&A. William will be signing books afterwards, and the shop will be open to browse.
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