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2009 COMING UP

Thursday July 16
Irish Writers in London Summer School
London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road, London N7
First established in 1996, the summer school runs for two nights per week for six weeks and aims to provide an informal but informative setting for students wishing to study Irish literature over the summer. Each week an established Irish writer comes to read and speak about their work to the students.
I am thrilled to be one of the 2009 guest writers.

I am joining John Healy whose autobiography The Grass Arena is now a Penguin Modern Classic; playwright Anne Devlin, novelist Lucy Caldwell and literary critic and historian Professor Clair Wills. www.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre/courses/writers

Saturday July 18
Going Public: an opportunity for emerging writers to learn effective marketing strategies, gain professional tips and insights into the publishing world. A New Writing South event at Jubilee Library, Brighton. Lots of different events and workshops from how to network to meet an agent.

I will be part of the author's panel in the afternoon. www.newwritingsouth.com

 

 

ARCHIVES 2009

Sunday June 14
Reading on Radio Reverb, Brighton's community radio station. Listen on Radioreverb 97.2FM or online www.radioreverb.com.

Friday July 3
Reading and Talk at St Dunstan's: a rehabilitation centre providing an independent future for blind ex-service men and women

 

Sunday and Monday May 3 and 4
Sunday and Monday May 24 and 25

A 13 minute radio script of a Good Confession will be part of RADIO CITY LIVE, The Hive, Brunswick

THURSDAY April 30 7pm

***A NIGHT OF IRISH STORYTELLING***

Books for Amnesty, Brighton - The little pink shop in Sydney Street.

Hosted by Amnesty International and County Brighton Irish Society. I will be reading from A Good Confession, along with prize winning short story writer Carmel Walsh and Ty Galvin, chair of County Brighton.

Traditional Music from The Celtic Ti-grrs

Books for Amnesty Brighton

April 3 Talk and reading on Brighton and Hove's new community radio

January 8 Portslade Library Writers Group Talk A wonderfully warm and supportive writers group

January 17 Royal Sussex Hospital Radio "The Book Corner" - a sort of 'Desert Island Books' with presenter Rosemary Allix. Great fun.

January 21 Morning Interview with Gordon Astley on BBC Southern Radio

January 21 Evening: Royal College of General Practitioners, Hyde Park -- An Irish Dinner
I gave an after dinner reading (and the dinner was bacon and cabbage). We were entertained by the Celtic Ti-grrs, Irish traditional music that makes you sit up and smile and tap your feet... I travelled home with the trio. They started playing jigs and reels as the train pulled out of Victoria station and kept it up until we crawled into Brighton just before 1am. They took requests, had the train guard singing along with most of the carriage and if only we had more room they would have danced as well. Best journey ever.

January 23 6.30 pm Borders Churchill Square, BRIGHTON in conjunction with Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project Book Signing and talk. More traditional music from The Celtic Ti-grrs

January 29 7pm Borders, The Angel, ISLINGTON Book Signing and talk

2008

December 6 Launch party Thank you to everyone who came and made it such a happy,memorable occasion. An especially warm thank you to Carmel, Asling and Mark, the talented musicans who played Irish traditional music all evening.

November 22 Peckham Literary Festival Workshop at Review bookshop in Peckham Rye I've never been to Peckham before but with beautiful Victorian houses, street furniture designed by Anthony Gormley and one of the best bookshops I have ever visited, I think I am in love.

September 12 Lit Camp London Metropolitan University
I ran a confidence-building creative writing workshop plus a session devoted to financial survival for writers. Billed as an Un-conference, it was an eclectic mix of professional writers, emerging writers, publishers, agents and students. A great day that I hope will becomes an annual event.