Awards

Guestbook Award for Narrative Hospitality

2026

Hattie Myers

Training and Supervising psychoanalyst at IPTAR and Editor-in-Chief of ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

The 2026 Guestbook Award in Narrative Hospitality was awarded to Hattie Myers at the Psychology of the Other conference in Pamplona on June 6, 2026.

Hattie Myers is internationally celebrated for her work in international social pedagogy and peace-making. She is the Editor-in-Chief of ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, a global, public forum in which individual experiences shared through essays, art, creative writing, poetry, and community projects enrich our understanding of the social and political world. She received the Guestbook Award for producing the film Speaking of Home: An Intimate Exchange on Israel-Palestine, in which two psychoanalysts, Eyal Rozmarin (who is Israeli) and Karim Dajani (who is Palestinian), engage in a powerful and tender conversation showing how unconscious processes underlie political-cultural realities and individual misunderstandings.

2025

Michael D. Higgins

President of Ireland

Guestbook Project director Richard Kearney  presents the 2025 Award for Narrative Hospitality to Irish President Michael D. Higgins (Áras an Uachtaráin)

2024

Colum McCann

Author and President of Narrative4

Guestbook Project directors, Richard Kearney and Sheila Gallagher, present the 2024 Award for Narrative Hospitality to Colum McCann, author and President of Narrative4 (Boston College)

Guestbook Director Richard Kearney and Narrative4 director Colum McCann speak on Narrative Hospitality, moderated by Sheila Gallagher.

2023

Brian O'Donovan

Broadcaster, Writer, Presenter, and Host of ``A Celtic Sojourn`` on GBH

Brian O’Donovan, storyteller, GBH host of Celtic Sojourn and winner of the 2023 Guestbook Award for Narrative Hospitality, speaks with Guestbook director, Richard Kearney, about the joys of storytelling and growing up in their common native homeland of West Cork

2022

Mary Robinson

Former UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, Former President of Ireland, and Former UN Commissioner of Human Rights

Mary Robinson (Former UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, Former President of Ireland, and Former UN Commissioner of Human Rights) sits down with Professor Richard Kearney (Boston College) at the Guestbook Project Hosting Earth event to discuss the climate crisis and ways that humans can be better guests and hosts to their host, the Earth.