Date: Friday 29th May 2026
Venue: Outside Seanchaí- Kerry Writers’ Museum
Time: 1.30 PM
An open mic session with local poet John McGrath, devoted exclusively to your poetry. No songs, no stories, just three minutes to present your poetic masterpiece to an appreciative audience of fellow poets on the steps of Listowel Castle when the sun shines, or indoors in the Seanchaí if it rains.
Date: Friday 29th May 2026
Venue:Listowel Library
Time:12 PM
In the Desert
A traumatized movie star returns to his dying hometown to find the woman he loves has disappeared. He vows to find her. In the Desert follows five friends as the consequences from their childhood unravel in betrayal, murder and undying love. Barbara Byar is a recipient of an Irish Arts Council Literature Bursary and an Agility Award. This is her debut novel. Author Noel O’Regan will Launch Barbara’s debut Novel.
Date: Friday 29th May 2026
Venue: Seanchaí- Kerry Writers’ Museum
Venue: 12 PM
What The Light Holds
Henry Morgan is a renowned Irish artist who has exhibited far and wide. Born in Adare, Co. Limerick, this exciting exhibition holds a tension between stillness and motion. Surfaces are active, layered and unsettled suggesting a world in continual change. Forms emerge, dissolve and reform. What is seen is only part of what is present. Each painting is a beginning unfolding further in the viewer’s own seeing.
Date: Friday 29th May 2026
Venue:St John’s Theatre & Arts Centre
Time:11 AM
Bí linn don ócáid specialta seo-dreas cainte, ceoil agus craic faoi stiúir Aine Ní Ghlinn. Beidh Áine ag caint faoina saol agus a saothar.
Bhuaigh sí Duais Foras na Gaeilge ag Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí, Lios Tuathail,i 2002, 2019 agus 2020. Cónaíonn sí i mBaile Átha Cliath. Ócáid saor in aisce é seo and cuirfear na mílte fáilte romhat.
Join us for a morning of coffee and conversational Irish. From beginners, all are most welcome to come along, join in and enjoy the craic! This will be a very special Writers Week Ciorcal Comhráas we welcome poet Áine Ní Ghlinn
Bí linn gan teip!
Date:Thursday 28th and Friday 29th May 2026
Venue: Christy’s Bar
Time: 9.30 PM
Join Listowel Writers’ Week lively Open Mic night, where anything could happen. Feast on plenty of courage, culture and the craic at Christy’s Bar.
Enjoy verses from emerging and established voices, paired with a pint and good company in the heart of the town.