Peter Hollywood
& Anthony Glavin
Templar Poets (I)
Dame Fiona Kidman
The Infinte Air
With Jo Egan
Sarah Mussi, A.G.R. Moore,
Shirley-Anne McMillan & Caroline Healy
With Dawn Wood, Tom Weir,
Oliver Comins & Maggie O’Dwyer
Crescent Arts Centre
Saturday 11 June – 1pm
Tickets: £6/£4
Crescent Arts Centre
Saturday 11 June – 4pm
Tickets: £6/£4
Crescent Arts Centre
Saturday 11 June – 5pm
Tickets: Free
Crescent Arts Centre
Saturday 11 June – 6.15pm
Tickets: £8/£6
Drowning the Gowns - Venice, 1894.
Henry James takes a night-time gondola to
dump armfuls of a recently deceased lady’s
garments.
Come along to this panel event and learn
about writing for these different audiences
and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Dawn Wood’s first collection, Quarry
was shortlisted in the Aldeburgh First
Collection Prize and was followed by
Connoisseur. Ingathering and Declaration
are her most recent collections. Declaration
takes inspiration from the Hebrew of
Genesis and the Psalms.
This enthralling novel, tells the story of the
rise and fall of one of the world’s greatest
aviators, the glamorous and mysterious
Jean Batten.
Irish artist Reuben Ross accidentally
witnesses this bizarre event and attempts
to unravel the mystery surrounding it.
Reuben finds himself adrift and risks losing
his mind as he discovers that there is more
to this story.
Peter Hollywood’s previous publications
include Hawks (2013), Jane Alley (1987),
Lead City & Other Stories (2002) and a
novel, Luggage (2008).
Colours Other than Blue - Maeve is a
single mother of a teenage daughter and
works as a Senior Nurse. Grieving over her
father’s recent death, she begins to keep a
notebook, writing down memories of her
Boston childhood,
Gradually another, more subterranean,
sorrow emerges…
Boston-born Anthony Glavin first came to
Ireland in 1974. In 1987, he succeeded David
Marcus as editor of “New Iri sh Writing” in
the Irish Press, and has worked for New
Island.
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Writing For Children
& Young Adults
Caroline Healy is an award winning
graduate of the Seamus Heaney Centre.
Her short story collection A Stitch in Time
won Doire Press’s International Chapbook
Short Story Competition.
Caroline is currently working on final
edits for her next novel with Bloomsbury
Publishing.
Sarah Mussi is a multi-award winning
author. The Door of No Return won the
Glen Dimplex & Irish Writers’ Children’s
Book Award. Bomb, 2015, was listed in The
Guardian New Best Kids Books 2015 list.
A.G.R. Moore has self-published two
novels, The Unseen Chronicles of Amelia
Black in 2011 (the first in his Unseen Saga
series) and a picturesque fable about A Boy
Named Hogg in 2012.
Shirley-Anne McMillan, is originally from
Lisburn, and is a writer and schools worker
in Newcastle, Co. Down. Her Young Adult
novel A Good Hiding (Atom books) is out in
August 2016.
Tom Weir’s The Outsider, won the iOTA
Shots Award and his first collection All
that Falling was launched in 2015. His years
living and working abroad, along with living
in remote parts of the English Countryside
provide inspiration for his writing.
In 1995, Oliver Comins’ work was included
in Anvil New Poets Two and the editor,
Carol Ann Duffy, said “…poetry which has
its roots emphatically in the writer’s life.”
Recent work is published in journals like
The Rialto, Yellow Nib and The Spectator.
Maggie O’Dwyer’s first poetry pamphlet,
Yes, I’d Love to Dance was followed by her
first collection, Laughter Heard from the
Road, shortlisted in 2010 for the Rupert
and Eithne Strong Award for Best First
Collection.
With Cathy Brown
After breaking records and becoming an
icon in the 1930s, Batten suddenly slipped
out of view, disappearing to the Caribbean
with her mother and eventually dying in
obscurity and buried in a pauper’s grave.
The compelling behind-the-scenes story
of ‘the Garbo of the skies’ is a fascinating
insight into the early days of flying, of
mothers and daughters, fame and secrecy.
Dame Fiona Kidman is a leading
contemporary novelist, short story writer
and poet. She has won numerous awards,
and has been the recipient of fellowships,
grants and other significant honours.
She is President of Honour for the New
Zealand Book Council, and has been
awarded an OBE and a Dame Companion
of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her
services to literature.
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