‘Dorothy Parker Made Me A Feminist’ – Mary Kenny’s Highly Entertaining Performance at Listowel Writers’ Week 2013

April 24, 2013

We’re really pleased to be welcoming journalist and writer, Mary Kenny, back to Listowel Writers’ Week with one of her witty and stylish performances. Last year she brought her light-hearted and at times hilarious memoir, Dublin 4 Made Me, to a packed audience at St John’s Theatre.  She’s back this year with Dorothy Parker Made Me A [...]

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Colum McCann Interview with Listowel Writers’ Week

April 20, 2013

Listowel Writers’ Week is delighted to be welcoming back this year one of our most distinguished literary writers.  And especially so in 2013 – the year of The Gathering Ireland – when we celebrate the greatness of our heritage abroad. His books include This Side of Brightness and Let the Great World Spin, with a [...]

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Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2013 – Shortlist Announced

April 18, 2013

The 5 shortlisted authors for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2013 were announced last night at Dublin’s Mansion House by Kerry Group’s Aoife O’Brien. The €15,000 award is the largest monetary prize for fiction available solely to Irish authors. The award was adjudicated this year by Robert McCrum, Observer Associate Editor [...]

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Listowel Writers’ Week 2013 National Launch

April 17, 2013

Tonight, at Dublin’s Mansion House, Listowel Writers’ Week 2013 was officially launched by Observer Associate Editor and former editor-in-chief of Faber & Faber, Robert McCrum (below). Ever conscious of the shifts in literature and the wider cultural landscape here in Ireland and overseas,  we’ve been busy reviewing our strategies and aim to ensure that all [...]

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Listowel Writers’ Week Festival Blogger 2013

April 12, 2013

Hi from Jackie Goodall! I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as Listowel Writers’ Week official Blogger for the 2013 festival. I’ve been involved with the festival since 2008 and over the years, have really enjoyed working alongside our fantastic team of voluntary organisers and staff.  As we fast approach our 42nd festival, [...]

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Going Live with Online Festival Booking!

April 10, 2013

Listowel Writers’ Week is pleased to tell you about our new online booking system. It will go live over the next week and will be greatly beneficial to all our festival goers. Speed You now have the freedom to browse our full programme at your leisure and have immediate assurance – in real time – [...]

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Meet the Extraordinary Joe Murphy, Farmer and Artistic Director of St John’s Theatre and Arts Centre, Listowel

April 6, 2013

Known locally as The Vicar, Joe Murphy is the ebullient Artistic Director of Listowel’s most beautiful and unusual theatre, St John’s, (below) situated in the heart of The Square. A former Protestant Church, it’s a venue which Listowel Writers’ Week uses extensively during the festival for drama, readings, lectures, music and exhibitions. I spoke to [...]

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Listowel Writers’ Week Literary Workshops

March 28, 2013

A Very Happy and Joyous Easter to all! Literary Workshops Did you know that it was Bryan MacMahon who first introduced the concept of the Literary Workshop to both Ireland and Listowel Writers’ Week way back in 1972?  Directed by some of Ireland’s leading writers and teachers, our Workshops have since become an integral part of [...]

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Cill Rialaig – Allowing the Creative Spirit to Rejuvenate and be Inspired

March 22, 2013

Listowel Writers’ Week is honoured and delighted to announce its first year in working partnership with Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat.  Situated in the wild and remote landscape of Bolus Head, at the very tip of the Iveragh Peninsula in South Kerry, Cill Rialaig has been attracting thousands of writers, artists, poets and composers from Ireland [...]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Listowel Writers’ Week

March 15, 2013

Listowel Writers’ Week would like to wish you all a very Happy St. Patrick’s Day, wherever you are in the world! Con Houlihan Young Sports Journalist Award There are still two weeks left to enter our Con Houlihan Young Sports Journalist Award.  The closing date is Friday 29th March 2013, so get scribbling and send [...]

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