Drumshanbo Literary Festival
Drumshanbo Literary Festival
Written Word Weekend
CLAIRE KEEGAN COMES TO DRUMSHANBO LITERARY FESTIVAL
Drumshanbo Literary Festival’s Written Word Weekend will return to celebrate Leitrim’s love for words. The festival was previously run from 2009-2012 under the patronage of the late Dermot Healy, a member of Aosdana and is set to relaunch the last weekend in August.
It will kick off on Friday 26th of August with the opening event outside The Shed Distillery at 5:30pm. We are bringing back the ever-popular Walking Tour of the Town with local historians, raconteurs and Drumshanbo wise-guys Noel McPartland and Eamon Daly. (Free Entry)
The festival launches in The Mayflower at 7pm with the screening of the shortlist from the inaugural Poetry Film Competition, of which there were over seventy entries nationwide. The presentation of first prize to the winner will be made by the curator of the event, Cork poet/filmmaker Colm Scully. After the films, the stage is open to anyone who’d like to read their work. (Free Entry)
The next day, Saturday 27th at 10am till 1pm at the Drumshanbo Library the great Nuala O’Connor will facilitate an intensive Short Story Writing Workshop. (€50: Places Strictly Limited)
A stellar line up is planned in The Mayflower on Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. Internationally acclaimed authors Claire Keegan and Nuala O’Connor will read and discuss their work with moderator Gerry Boland. An incredibly special guest will join them, Charlie McGettigan, will be reading from his debut memoir Forever the Rock n Roll Kid. Local Carrickallen crime writer Kevin Mc Manus will read, and we’ll hear a story from Mohill’s own Gerry Bohan. (€15)
The festival closes with an Open-Stage in one of Drumshanbo’s darling High Street pubs, Monica’s. Please join us. (Free Entry)
Tickets for the Short Story Workshop and the Afternoon Reading and Conversation are available on the following:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/written-word-weekend-readings-and-conversation-tickets-392491331137
Drumshanbo Literary Festival Team
Eileen O’Toole, Catriona Kelly, Conor MacManus, Robert M Wray
writtenwordweekend@gmail.com