UPCOMING EVENTS - WORKSHOPS AND READINGS IN AUGUST & SEPTEMBER
Irish novelist Mike McCormack (11-24 August) and American poet Richard Blanco (25 August- 8 Sept) will be Writers in Residence during this period. Both writers will be meeting community groups in Limerick as well as readings and workshops. Also acclaimed short story writer Claire Keegan will also return to Limerick in September (workshop and lecture) and Chinese novelist Sun Wei .
(All events - readings and workshops fully funded by Limerick City of Culture
Upcoming Readings and Lectures
Reading : Mike McCormack and Sun Wei
Date: Friday 22nd
Venue: Library, Dooradoyle Co. Limerick
Time : 19.00
Reading : Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco
Date : Thursday 28th August
Venue: Limerick City Library, The Granary, Michael Street.
Time: 20.00
and
Lecture : Richard Blanco ' Poet Engineer and the Poetics of Place'
Date : Wednesday 3rd September
Venue : SAUL Studio Space- School of Architecture University of Limerick- Room CG-042
(located adjacent to the main reception desk of the University of Limerick.)
Time: 17.00 (All Welcome)
Reading : Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco
Date : Friday 5th September
Venue: 15th Century Desmond Hall, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick.
(OPW and NCW Arts Committe)
Time: 19.30
Reading : Claire Keegan
Date: Friday 19th September
Venue: Adare Library, Co. Limerick
Time: 20.00
Upcoming Workshops
Fiction Workshop with Mike McCormack :
Dates: Saturday August 16th (Part 1) and Saturday August 23rd (Part 2)
Time (both part 1 and part 2) : 10.30.-12.30 and 13.30-14.30
Venue: Limerick Writer’s Centre - 12 Barrington St.
Poetry Masterclass with Richard Blanco :
Dates: Thursday 28th August 10am to 13.00 pm (Part 1)
Friday 5th September 10am to 13.00 pm (Part 2)
Venue: The Coach House, Culture House , 2 Pery Square Limerick
Fiction Workshop with Claire Keegan :
Date: Saturday 20th September
Venue: Limerick Writer’s Centre - 12 Barrington St.
Time: 0.30-12.30 and
13.30-15.30
To book a place on either workshop please email visitingwriterslimerick2014@
Mike McCormack
Author of Getting it in the Head (1996) Crowe's Requiem (1998) Notes from a Coma (2005) and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 McCormack was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature.
Sun Wei
A novelist , short story writer and essayist. based in Shanghai China. She has published 13 books and over 20 novels and novelettes. Sun was writer in residence in Cork in 2011
Richard Blanco is the author of City of a Hundred Fires(1998), Directions to the Beach of the Dead (2005), Looking for the Gulf Motel (2012), One Today(2013), Boston Strong (2013), and For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey(2013). In 2013, Blanco was chosen to serve as the fifth inaugural poet of the United States, becoming the youngest, first Latino, immigrant and openly gay writer to hold the honor.
Claire Keegan
Award winning short story writer. Her debut, Antarctica was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. The Observer called these stories "among the finest recently written in English". In 2007, Walk the Blue Fields, was published to huge critical acclaim and went on to win The Edge Hill Prize for the strongest collection published in The British Isles that year. Foster(2010) won The Davy Byrnes Award
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