West Cork Literary Festival

Now an annual highlight in the Irish literary calendar, the West Cork Literary Festival is a week-long celebration of writing and reading for people of all…

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WCLF 2020 - Meet the Artists

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COVID-19 - We regret to announce that we have taken the decision to cancel this year’s West Cork Literary Festival which was due to take place from 10 to 17 July.

West Cork Literary Festival 2020 - 10th to 17th July 2020

WCLF 2020

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Why Should Every Town Have a Public Library? from Public Library (1890) by Thomas Greenwood

Katharine Weber Quote: “Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go.”

Literary Thoughts

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Original artwork used for WCLF 2020 brochure (to be published in April 2020): Catherine Weld 'Fragile Island II’ www.catherineweld.com

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West Cork Literary Festival on Twitter: "Final guests Joseph O'Connor and Paraic O'Donnell with @deshocks and our final audience of #WCLF2019 https://t.co/4Gw9TXoQWL" / Twitter

WCLF 2019 - During the Week

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WCLF 2019 - Meet the Artists

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Billy Ramsell was born in Cork in 1977 and educated at the North Monastery and UCC. He has published two collections with Dedalus Press, Complicated Pleasures in 2007 and The Architect’s Dream of Winter in 2013, which was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and has recently been published in Italian translation.

Eimear Ryan’s writing has appeared in Winter Papers, Granta, The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, Town & Country (Faber) and The Long Gaze Back (New Island). She has won several awards for her short stories, including a Hennessy First Fiction Award and the Sean Dunne Young Writer Award. She is co-editor of the literary journal Banshee. Photo Credit: Selina_OMeara

WCLF 2018 - Workshop Leaders

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West Cork Literary Festival Workshops 2018 - more to come - watch this space!

Full list of our 2018 West Cork Literary Festival Workshops. The festival runs from 13-20 July and all-but-one workshops run every day from Mon 16 to Fri 20.

WCLF 2018 - Art Work & Publicity

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Trish Deseine is a cookbook author and food writer who recently moved to West Cork after 25 years in France. She has published over 25 books – many of which are award-winners and bestsellers – mostly in French, for publishers including Hachette, Flammarion, Kyle Books and Murdoch books. Trish has hosted TV shows for RTE and BBC NI and currently writes for Irish women’s monthly, The Gloss. www.trishdeseineireland.com. Photo Credit: Deirdre Rooney

Martina Evans is an award-winning poet and novelist, the author of eleven books of prose and poetry. Burnfort Las Vegas was a finalist for the Poetry Now Award in 2015 and her latest book of poems Now We Can Talk Openly About Men is published by Carcanet in May 2018. Photo Credit: Joanne O'Brien

Bandonian Justine McCarthy is a columnist and political correspondent with the Sunday Times. She is the author of two books, Mary McAleese: The Outsider and Deep Deception: Scandals in Irish Swimming. She is a frequent broadcaster and public speaker and was an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Limerick. She has written for the Guardian, the Washington Post and the Observer and has won more than a dozen journalism awards, including columnist of the year, features writer of th

WCLF 2018 - Authors 2018

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Martina Evans - photo Deirdre Fitzgerald - Wild Atlantic Way Patterns of Nature

Katharine Weber - image Bantry Bay by Deirdre Fitzgerald

WCLF 2018 - Quotes

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WCLF 2017

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Carol Drinkwater is a multi-award-winning actress who is best known for playing Helen Herriot in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small. She has since written 21 fiction and non-fiction books, including four memoirs set on her olive farm in the south of France, which have sold over one million copies worldwide. Find out more about Carol on www.caroldrinkwater.com or twitter: @Carol4OliveFarm Photo Credit: Michel Noll

Mia Gallagher was born in Dublin, where she lives and works. Her debut novel, HellFire, was widely acclaimed and received the Irish Tatler Women of the Year Literature Award in 2007, while her award-winning short fiction has been widely published and anthologised. Mia has received several Literature Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland and has been writer-in-residence in many different environments, both at home and abroad. Mia’s photo is by Robbie Fry

WCLF 2017 - Meet the Writers

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WCLF 2017 - Workshops

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Twitter / Notifications - At Swim ‏@AtSwimBook Jul 24 Arms aloft for top weekend @wcorklitfest #swims #talks #wordsandpints

repealproject on Twitter: "pro choice activists, writers and journalists sitting in the company of @GloriaSteinem #repealthe8th https://t.co/LdlWkRPm4Q"

Twitter / Notifications - Sasha de Buyl-Pisco ‏@sashadebuyl Jul 23 Well this was an exciting afternoon. Thanks so much for a wonderful event!

WCLF 2016

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Journalism with Christina Lamb. Christina has reported all over the globe but her particular passions are Afghanistan and Pakistan which she has reported on since an unexpected wedding invitation led her to Karachi in 1987 when she was just 21. Within two years she had been named Young Journalist of the Year. Find out more here: http://bit.ly/Journalism2016

*** Cancelled *** Photo Credit: CJ Humphries. Novel Writing with Anjali Joseph. Anjali is the author of three novels. Saraswati Park (2010) won the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Prize, and the Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction in India, as well as being shortlisted for several other prizes. Another Country (2012) was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Award. The Living, her third novel, appears in March 2016.

THE ART OF MEMOIR with MICHAEL HARDING: Michael Harding has written two volumes of memoir, Staring at Lakes and Hanging with the Elephant. He writes a regular column in the Irish Times. He has received numerous awards for his work.

WCLF 2016 - Workshops

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Lisa McInerney’s debut novel The Glorious Heresies (John Murray) was named as a Book of the Year by The Irish Times, Sunday Independent and Sunday Business Post and has been longlisted for the 2016 Dylan Thomas Prize and the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction. Her short stories have featured in The Stinging Fly, on BBC Radio 4 and in the anthologies The Long Gaze Back, edited by Sinéad Gleeson, and Town and Country, edited by Kevin Barry.

Zadie Smith - Zadie Smith was born in Northwest London in 1975 and still lives in the area. She is the author of White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, and more.

Already the most recent winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser and Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, in Jan 2016 Sarah Howe was handed the TS Eliot prize, the most prestigious accolade in modern poetry. This had never before been given to an author for a debut collection.

2016 WCLF - Sneak Preview

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New Directions in Travel workshop with Horatio Clare - Horatio is the multi-award-winning author of Running for the Hills, A Single Swallow and the Standford-Dolman Travel Book of the Year Down to the Sea in Ships. He lectures in creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Photo Credit: James Bedford

Carole Blake - Carole Blake has worked in publishing for 52 years and was the recipient of the Pandora Award 2013 ‘for significant and sustained contribution to the publishing industry’. She lives in a London penthouse with so many books and shoes that one day it might become a basement. She enjoys her job even more now than in past years: today’s challenges are exciting. Photo of Carole by Jack Ladenburg

2016 WCLF - Meet the Writers

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What a lovely night in Bantry listening to Graham Norton at West Cork Literary fest @wcorklitfest @grahnort

Heading to Bantry tomorrow for @wcorklitfest. Travelling by train, car and - it seems - ark.

Photo taken by @DKanePhoto before the interview I did with @grahnort at the @wcorklitfest on Friday night. Big crowd!

WCLF 2015

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Judi Curtin surprised many people (especially herself), when her first book was published in 2002. Since then she has written many books for adults and children, including the best-selling Alice and Megan series, which includes Alice to the Rescue and Viva Alice!, and the Friends Forever series. Judi is also the author of the Eva series including her latest (and 22nd!) book Only Eva. Judi lives in Limerick with her family. Photo Credit: Eva Birdthistle Photography

Colin Barrett grew up in Mayo. His first book, Young Skins, was first published in 2013 by the Stinging Fly press. Young Skins won the 2014 Frank O'Connor International short story prize, the Rooney Prize for Literature and the Guardian First Book Award. His stories have appeared in A Public Space, Five Dials, the Guardian and the New Yorker. Read one of Colin’s stories here http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/05/ways-2

Julia Churchill joined A.M.Heath Literary Agents in 2013 where she runs the children’s book department, after four years building up the UK side of the Greenhouse Literary Agency, and six years at the Darley Anderson Agency where she started the children's book list. She’s lucky to represent some fabulous writers and have a diverse and rich client list of prize-winners and bestsellers. She’s always on the treasure hunt for a new writing talent and considers the slushpile to be the greatest place

WCLF 2015 - Meet the Writers

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Investigative Reporting Techniques with Nick Davies - Mon 13 July to Fri 17 July 2015 Exploring the techniques of investigative reporting, starting with first principles and moving on to the most sophisticated tricks of the trade. Find out more here: http://www.westcorkmusic.ie/literaryfestival/workshops/detail/investigative-reporting-techniques

Playwriting with Deirdre Kinahan - Mon 13 July to Fri 17 July 2015. A playwriting workshop for all levels by acclaimed playwright Deirdre Kinahan focusing on the creation and development of empathetic character for the stage. Find out more here: http://www.westcorkmusic.ie/literaryfestival/workshops/detail/playwriting

A fabulous array of workshop facilitators from the West Cork Literary Festival 2015 line-up. Find out more here: http://www.westcorkmusic.ie/literaryfestival/workshops

WCLF 2015 - Workshops

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Mary Morrissy - will be judging the J G Farrell Award at this year's West Cork Literary Festival. The winner of this Award (open to writers in Munster) will benefit from a place on the Writing a Novel workshop with John Boyne as well as a 5 night stay in the Maritime Hotel, Bantry.

Colin Barrett - Young Skins is Colin Barrett’s magnificent and multi-award-winning first book. The stories are set in small towns in rural Ireland where boy racers speed down the back lanes, couples haunt the midnight woods and young skins huddle in the cold once The Peacock has closed its doors.

Sneak Preview Collage: Clockwise from left - Colin Barrett, Dervla Murphy, Mary Morrissy, John FitzGerald, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Sara Baume, Louise O'Neill

WCLF 2015 Sneak Preview

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WCLF 2014 - Meet the Writers

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Mary Hegarty, Martin Riordan and Denyse Woods at opening ~ photo credit William Merrivale

Marianne Gunn O'Connor, Suzanne Baboneau and Anita Shreve Writer Idol

WCLF 2012 - A Taste

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Niamh Cusack opens the Festival ~ image credit Siobhan Worn

WCLF 2011 - Snippets

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2020 Festival Cancelled

COVID-19 - We regret to announce that we have taken the decision to cancel this year’s West Cork Literary Festival which was due to take place from 10 to 17 July.

Original artwork used for WCLF 2020 brochure (to be published in April 2020): Catherine Weld 'Fragile Island II’ www.catherineweld.com

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Jane Casey - Jane Casey has written ten crime novels for adults and three for teenagers. A former editor, she is married to a criminal barrister who ensures her writing is realistic and as accurate as possible. This authenticity has made her novels international bestsellers and critical successes. The Maeve Kerrigan series has been nominated for many awards: in 2015 Jane won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for The Stranger You Know and Irish Crime Novel of the Year for After the Fire. In 2019, Crue

Cynan Jones - Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wales where he now lives and works. He is the author of five short novels, The Long Dry, Everything I Found on the Beach, Bird, Blood, Snow, The Dig, and Cove. He has been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous international prizes and won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award (2007), a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize (2014), the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize (2015) and the BBC National Short Story Award (2017). Cornwall, Gallows Humor, Genre Fiction, Fiction Novels, Screenplay, Fiction, Literature, Jones

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Cynan Jones - Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wales where he now lives and works. He is the author of five short novels, The Long Dry, Everything I Found on the Beach, Bird, Blood, Snow, The Dig, and Cove. He has been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous international prizes and won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award (2007), a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize (2014), the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize (2015) and the BBC National Short Story Award (2017).

Dave Lordan - Dave Lordan is a multi-genre writer, performer, editor, and pathbreaking multimedia educator with four acclaimed books & twenty years experience in creativity education & cultural programme design. Check out his colourful new website at davelordan.com or follow Dave Lordan on YouTube or Facebook. As well as West Cork Literary Festival, Dave has provided workshops for RTE, the Irish Film Institute, Dublin City Libraries, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Courthouse Arts Centre, The Irish Cou Workshop, Writer Workshop, The Munster, Film Institute, Writer, Children’s Books, Irish Times

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Dave Lordan - Dave Lordan is a multi-genre writer, performer, editor, and pathbreaking multimedia educator with four acclaimed books & twenty years experience in creativity education & cultural programme design. Check out his colourful new website at davelordan.com or follow Dave Lordan on YouTube or Facebook. As well as West Cork Literary Festival, Dave has provided workshops for RTE, the Irish Film Institute, Dublin City Libraries, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Courthouse Arts Centre, The Irish Cou

Paul McVeigh - Paul McVeigh‘s debut novel, The Good Son, won The Polari First Novel Prize and The McCrea Literary Award and was shortlisted for many others including the Prix du Roman Cezam in France. The Good Son was also Brighton’s City Reads 2016 and was given out around the UK for World Book Night 2017. His short stories have been read on BBC Radio 3, 4 & 5, published in many journals and anthologies including The Stinging Fly, and Faber’s Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, as well as a Brighton, Dylan Thomas, Paul, The Good Son, Faber, Anthology, City

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Paul McVeigh - Paul McVeigh‘s debut novel, The Good Son, won The Polari First Novel Prize and The McCrea Literary Award and was shortlisted for many others including the Prix du Roman Cezam in France. The Good Son was also Brighton’s City Reads 2016 and was given out around the UK for World Book Night 2017. His short stories have been read on BBC Radio 3, 4 & 5, published in many journals and anthologies including The Stinging Fly, and Faber’s Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, as well as a

Paul Muldoon - Paul Muldoon  is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, including  Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and  Frolic and Detour  (2019) His other awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 2003 Griffin Prize, the 2015 Pigott Prize, and the 2017 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in County Armagh in 1951, he has lived since 1987 in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton Univ People, Queen, Howard, Clark, County

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Paul Muldoon - Paul Muldoon is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Frolic and Detour (2019) His other awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 2003 Griffin Prize, the 2015 Pigott Prize, and the 2017 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in County Armagh in 1951, he has lived since 1987 in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton Univ

ER Murray - Elizabeth Rose Murray writes novels for children and young adults and short fiction. Her books include The Book of Learning – Nine Lives Trilogy 1 (2016 Dublin UNESCO Citywide Read for Children), The Book of Shadows – Nine Lives Trilogy 2 (shortlisted 2016 Irish Book Awards and 2016 Irish Literacy Association Award), The Book of Revenge – Nine Lives Trilogy 3 (Feb 2018) and Caramel Hearts (May 2016). Book Of Shadows, Dublin, Her. Book, Novel Writing

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ER Murray - Elizabeth Rose Murray writes novels for children and young adults and short fiction. Her books include The Book of Learning – Nine Lives Trilogy 1 (2016 Dublin UNESCO Citywide Read for Children), The Book of Shadows – Nine Lives Trilogy 2 (shortlisted 2016 Irish Book Awards and 2016 Irish Literacy Association Award), The Book of Revenge – Nine Lives Trilogy 3 (Feb 2018) and Caramel Hearts (May 2016).

Claire Nelson - West Cork Music

Claire Nelson - Claire Nelson is a New Zealander who spent more than a decade in London working in food and travel journalism, including over 5 years at Jamie Oliver’s magazine. She is a freelance writer, copy-editor, and a keen traveller with a love of the outdoors. She has contributed to magazines including Westjet, ELLE, Lodestars Anthology, Jamie Oliver, and Trek & Mountain, as well as the Lodestars Anthology travel book, Pathways. Her first non-fiction book Things I Learned From Falling wil

Rachel Andrews - Rachel Andrews’ essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in outlets including the London Review of Books, n+1, Brick literary journal, the Stinging Fly, Longreads, Gorse, Banshee, the White Review, the Irish Times and the Dublin Review. In 2018, she was runner up in the inaugural Hubert Butler Essay Prize and in 2017 was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize and the Notting Hill Essay Prize. She won the CDS Documentary Essay Prize in 2013. She lives and works Memoirs, Notting Hill, Butler, Appearance

Rachel Andrews - West Cork Music

Rachel Andrews - Rachel Andrews’ essays and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in outlets including the London Review of Books, n+1, Brick literary journal, the Stinging Fly, Longreads, Gorse, Banshee, the White Review, the Irish Times and the Dublin Review. In 2018, she was runner up in the inaugural Hubert Butler Essay Prize and in 2017 was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize and the Notting Hill Essay Prize. She won the CDS Documentary Essay Prize in 2013. She lives and works

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