Each year the Guestbook Project presents two awards: the Guestbook Award for Narrative Hospitality, and the Guestbook-Write the World Award for Best Youth Essay on Ecological Hospitality, in partnership with Write the World, the global community for young writers.

2025

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

2024

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, 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) 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.