Lemons, Liars and Banshees: Three literary journals in conversation. Join editors from The Waxed Lemon, The Four Faced Liar and Banshee as they discuss the recent upsurge of literary journals in Ireland. The editors will give advice on how to submit your work and audience members will be invited to participate in a Q&A session at the end.
Mark Roper was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1951 and has lived in Ireland since 1980. His collections include The Hen Ark (1990), which won the 1992 Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection; The Home Fire (1998) and Whereabouts (2005). His collection A Gather of Shadow (2012) was joint winner of the Michael Hartnett Award in 2014, and was shortlisted, along with Bindweed (2018), for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.
David Toms (born 1988) is a writer from Waterford, now living and working in Norway. His poetry collections include Northly (Turas Press, 2019), Soma | Sema (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2011), and several chapbooks..
Anne Tannam is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) who helps writers to design and sustain flourishing writing practices. She regularly runs workshops and clinics online and across the country. For more on Anne’s coaching, visit www.creativecoaching.ie.
Coinciding with the new Waterford Whispers News book launch, the landlord everyone loves to hate: Bill Badbody brings his new TED talk on the ups and downs of a landlord in Ireland in 2022 to the Book Centre, Waterford.
Aingeala Flannery is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist. Her short story ‘Visiting Hours’ was the winner of the 2019 Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Competition..
The Fly on the Wheel was written by re-disovered Irish author Katherine Cecil Thurston, and published three years before the she died, aged 36 (very possibly murdered by her fiancé who got her to change her will before she died, and then drugged her with laudanum). The Fly on the Wheel was written in her … Read more
“The Art of Fiction (with Derek Flynn)”. A workshop exploring the fundamentals of fiction writing using examples from classic texts and authors.
Jessica Traynor is a poet, essayist and librettist, and poetry editor at Banshee. Her debut poetry collection, Liffey Swim (Dedalus Press, 2014), was shortlisted for the Strong/Shine Award. The Quick (Dedalus Press, 2018) was an Irish Times poetry choice. Awards include the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary and Hennessy New Writer of the Year.
This master class with poet Joanne McCarthy will be focused on offering feedback to existing work. Each poet will be asked to bring a single poem to workshop with the group in an encouraging and supportive atmosphere. This workshop is best suited to emerging poets who have begun to publish in journals and are looking to hone their craft.