Peter Hollywood & Anthony Glavin
Peter Hollywood & Anthony Glavin
With Jo Egan
Crescent Arts Centre Saturday 11 June – 1pm Tickets : £ 6 /£ 4
Writing For Children & Young Adults
Sarah Mussi , A . G . R . Moore , Shirley-Anne McMillan & Caroline Healy
Crescent Arts Centre Saturday 11 June – 4pm Tickets : £ 6 /£ 4
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Drowning the Gowns - Venice , 1894 . Henry James takes a night-time gondola to dump armfuls of a recently deceased lady ’ s garments .
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 Irish Writing ” in the Irish Press , and has worked for New Island .
Come along to this panel event and learn about writing for these different audiences and how to avoid common pitfalls .
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 .