CORK WORLD BOOK FEST

Mon 23 - Sat 28 April 2018 City Library - Grand Parade Triskel Christchurch BOOKING INFORMATION

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Cork World Book Festival

@ WorldBookFest CORK WORLD BOOK FEST 2018

It is hard to believe that it is 13 years The Cork World Book Fest is a joint since the first Cork World Book Fest. production of the City Libraries and Triskel When we put ‘World’ in the title in Christchurch, with the active support of 2005, it was an aspiration. Now Cork the Munster Literature Centre. BOOKING INFORMATION is a vibrant intercultural city, and the This year the Fest will take place in the Intercultural City is one of the key City Library, in the Grand Parade plaza strands of this year’s Fest. outside the Library, in the adjoining Bishop Lucey Park and Triskel The 2018 Fest is the 14th edition of a Christchurch, and on the streets (and festival which continues to grow in some of the cafés) of Cork (see Fired! on range and breadth, and which, we page 14). hope, gets more interesting by the year. We hope you enjoy the 14th Cork World Book Fest – it is you, the audience, who ensure its continued success each year. The Fest has always sought to combine readings by world class writers in a variety of settings with a cultural streetfair: book stalls, music, street entertainment, the The Cork World Book Fest spoken word, and more. This year we Programme Team welcome international writers; Chang Ying-Tai, Nicholas Shakespeare, Dušan Šarotar, Luz Pichel, Olga Novo and many more.

The Fest compliments other literary events in the city and region, but is quite different putting readings and books on the street, for example. It is a participa- Ann Luttrell Patricia Looney tive, inclusive event, connecting readers with established and emerging Irish and international authors. We also encourage participation through the numerous workshops that are held during the week. The literature in translation sessions showcase the role of literature in world culture while new Irish writing is supported by launching new work. Tina Darb Liam Ronayne

1 MONDAY 23 APRIL

OFFIC IAL O PE NING

River lee hotel 13.00 FREE-booking rec.

23 April, the date on which both Cervantes and Shakespeare died, has been recognized by UNESCO as World Book Day for many decades.

The Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork will join the Cork World Book Fest team to officially open this year’s Fest, in homage to the Catalan tradition of the Book and the Rose.

A celebration of books and reading uniting Cork and Barcelona!

(For booking email: [email protected].)

2 TUESDAY 24 APRIL

City Library 10.00 FREE-Booking REC. A morning with Shane Hegarty Shane Hegarty is the writer of the Darkmouth series of fantasy adventure books. With fun visuals, creative games and lots of audience participation, this event will reveal to local schoolchildren where he finds his ideas for the Darkmouth series, and how children can unlock theirs. Shane even reveals the two most important words behind any great story. Shane Hegarthy

City Library 19.00 FREE Rainbow Writing The opening night of this year’s festival Sarah Clancy, from Galway, is the author celebrates LGBT+ writers and literature. of three collections of poetry, including Join writers Brian Finnegan, Jamie The Truth and Other Stories, Stacey and O’Connell, poet Sarah Clancy and Orla the Mechanical Bull Belfast, and Thanks Egan for an evening of lively discussion for Nothing, Hippies. and readings. Her work has been published in the UK, Brian Finnegan is editor of Ireland’s LGBT Canada and the United States. It has magazine GCN. He edited the short story also been published in translation in Italy, collection, Quare Fella. He is the author Poland, Slovenia and Mexico. of Camp as Knickers and two novels, The Forced Redundancy Film Club and Knowing Me Knowing You. He has also ghostwritten a number of celebrity autobiographies.

Brian Finnegan Sarah Clancy

3 TUESDAY 24 APRIL

Orla Egan is the author of Queer Republic of Cork, Cork’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities, 1970s-1990s.

She created the Cork LGBT Archive to preserve and share information on Cork’s rich history of LGBT activism and community formation.

Jamie O’Connell has been short-listed Orla Egan Jamie O’Connell for the Maeve Binchy Award and the Sky Arts Future’s Fund, and long-listed for BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines Short Story Competition.

O’Connell’s critically acclaimed debut short story collection Some sort of beauty was published by Bradshaw Books in 2012.

City Library 20.00 FREE short-story collections. Two of her novels, The Bear Whispers to Me and As Flowers Chang Ying-Tai & Billy O’Callaghan Bloom and Wither, have been translated Chang Ying-Tai（張瀛太) is an award- into English. Zither Player of Angkor, is winning Taiwanese novelist and short forthcoming in late 2018. story writer. She holds the position of Distinguished Professor at the National Chang Ying-Tai will be in conversation Taiwan University of Science and with writer Billy O’Callaghan. Technology, Taipei. Over the past two decades, she has been the recipient of numerous major awards, including the Award for Literary Writing from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education.

Her works include four novels and three

4 Chang Ying-Tai WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL

Teen Day - All Day

City Library 10.00 - 19.00 Teen Day Cork City Library Teen Committee’s Teen Day 2018 includes writing workshops, quizzes, cardboard cosplay, board games, an open mic and much more. Attend events throughout the day for your chance to win a prize hamper! Events are free and open to 13 – 18 year olds.

City Library 10.35 FREE City Library 10.40 FREE Launch - Graphic Novel by Short Story Competition Eoin Coveney This year’s winners will be announced by writer Kevin Doyle. Alan Corbett is an illustrator and writer with an MA in Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art. His City Library 10.50 FREE graphic novel The Ghost of Shandon was shortlisted for Cork’s Favourite Book. Teen Committee Open Invite Colin O’ Mahoney is a freelance editor to Teen Day events and co-founder of Turncoat Press, The Library Teen Committee comprises and the Cork Comic Creators group. of a group of teenagers ranging in age He edited The Guards, which the Irish from 13- 17. The group plan World Book Examiner rated “Graphic Novel of the Fest’s Teen Day, using the day to put a Year”, and which is currently being spotlight on library services to teenagers considered for publication by Dark Horse. in Cork city.

Together Alan and Colin are the art and story editors for Cork City Libraries’ annual Teen Graphic Novel.

5 WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL

City Library-children’s library 11.00 FREE City Library-THOMAS DAVIS ROOM 13.00 FREE Speed Dating with Books LGBT Representation in Young Adult Our book matchmakers will be on hand Fiction to help you find the book of your dreams. E.R. Murray will lead a discussion on LGBT

Suitable for Teenagers 13+. representation and stereotype in Young Adult Fiction. Author of the acclaimed Nine Lives trilogy and Young Adult novel City Library 11.15 FREE Caramel Hearts, E.R. Murray’s debut, The Book of Learning – Nine Lives Trilogy 1 was chosen as the 2016 Dublin UNESCO Unfinished Book Launch Citywide Read for Children. The 14th edition of The Unfinished Book of Poetry features brand new verse She has being shortlisted in major from over 40 students from five Cork international writing competitions secondary schools. including Francis MacManus , Penguin/ RTE Guide, Powers/Irish Times (flash Deputy Lord Mayor Cllr Fergal Dennehy fiction), and Aesthetica Creative Works will launch the book, followed by (poetry). comments from the assisting writers and readings from the contributors.

City Library-children’s library 12.00 FREE Teen Quiz Join the fun with our Teen Committee.

City Library-children’s library 13.00 FREE Cardboard Cosplay Challenge Do you have what it takes to win our cardboard cosplay challenge?

6 WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL

City Library-children’s library 14.00 FREE City Library 19.00 FREE Mindfullness for Teens Matthew Sweeney My Life Join Martyna Maciejowska who will as a Painter - Poetry Event lead a discussion on stress and how to Matthew Sweeney’s palette in manage it for teenagers, followed by My Life as a Painter, his twelfth a guided meditation. collection, features a wild mix of birds and animals: lizards, snakes, rats, camels, donkeys, feral cats, dogs and City Library-children’s library 17.45 fREE owls. One dog transmits telepathic requests for the food he wants, and there’s a parrot who speaks as Open Mic with Amy Snow ambassador for the bird world. Amy Snow began song writing as a teen and has since performed Sweeney’s canvas here is the in Ireland, Sweden, all over the UK transhuman: where boundaries and the USA’s East Coast. She has between human and non-human specialised in vocal performance and can’t be fixed, dreams turn into music education. torments, secrets stay hidden, strange communiqués remain unclear, and the With a penchant for the nerdier things natural weirdness of his native Donegal in life Amy takes inspiration from Harry verges on the surreal. Potter, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Thor, Iron This will be a special night of Man and Avengers Assemble. celebration as Matthew Sweeney is joined by friends Jo Shapcott, Maurice Riordan, Gerry Murphy, Mary Noonan, Deane Brown and Patrick Cotter to read from the book.

Patrick Cotter, Director of the Munster Literature Centre, will introduce the readers. Photo: John Minihan

Matthew Sweeney 7 THURSDAY 26 APRIL

City Library-children’s library 10.00 FREE City Library 11.30-12.30&15.30-16.30 FREE Story Rhythm and Rhyme Poetry Surprises! with Deidre Ryan Celebrating World Poetry Day. Suitable for babies and toddlers A unique spoken word performance accompanied by an adult. by Maria Wojdylo Kelly from poems by Cork based poets. Maria will also be performing her poem Safety, Sanctuary, Set of Web. Themes include nature, City Library 10.30 FREE-BOOKING ESSENTIAL inner inspection, inner exploration, social Ag Caint le Ré Ó Laighléis analysis and health. Irish language author Ré Ó Laighléis will talk to secondary school students about what inspires him to write and will share his enthusiasm for the Irish language. Ré Ó Laighléis is a writer of children’s, teenage and adult fiction in English and Irish. He was presented with the ‘An Peann faoi Bhláth’ award by the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, in recognition of his contribution to Irish literature. His best known collections include the multi-translated Ecstasy and other stories, Heart of Burren Stone, Goimh agus scéalta eile, Bolgchaint agus scéalta eile, Punk and many others Fáilte roimh chách.

Ré Ó Laighléis

8 THURSDAY 26 APRIL

City Library 19.00 FREE Bodies in the Library; Crime Fiction To Keep a bird singing is Kevin’s first novel. It will be launched by Danielle by Julie Parsons and Kevin Doyle McLaughlin. Danielle won the Saboteur Julie Parsons was born in New Zealand Award for Best Short Story Collection 2016 but has lived in Ireland for most of and with Madeleine D’Arcy runs Fiction her adult life. She was a radio and TV at the Friary. producer with RTE until her first novel, Mary. Mary was published in 1998. It was a critical and commercial success and translated into many languages. The Therapy House won the Crime Fiction Book of the Year Award at the Irish Book Awards 2017.

Julie will be in conversation with Mary Morrissy, award winning Irish novelist and associate Director of Creative Writing at University College, Cork.

City Library 20.00 FREE Book Launch: To Keep a Bird Singing Kevin Doyle holds a Masters in Organic Synthesis from NUI (Cork), and now works as a writer and creative writing teacher. He is the winner of and has been short listed for many awards including the Tipperary Short Story Award, Over The Edge New Writer Of The Year, Hennessy Literary Awards, Seán Ó Faoláin Prize and the McLaverty Short Story Award. ISL Interpreted Event By Ray Greene

Julie Parsons Kevin Doyle 9 THURSDAY 26 APRIL

TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH 20.30 5/6 In Tasmania Nicholas Shakespeare Few authors have been so in love with the Australian landscape as Nicholas Shakespeare. The award-winning author has devoted years to writing about Australia, including a non-fiction work, In Tasmania, as well as his novel Secrets of the Sea, which is set in the island state.

Nicholas Shakespeare first went to Tasmania, having heard of the island’s exceptional beauty, because it was famously remote. He soon decided that this was where he wanted to live. Only later did he discover a cache of letters written by an ancestor as corrupt as he Nicholas Shakespeare was colourful: Anthony Fenn Kemp, the so-called Father of Tasmania. On his mother’s side, too, Shakespeare found he had unknown Tasmanian relations; a pair of spinsters who had never left their farm except once, in 1947, to buy shoes. In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare weaves the history of the island with his multiple stories.

Nicholas Shakespeare’s latest book Six Minutes in May will be published in paperback in April. It was selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist.

In conversation with former Australian resident, writer Denyse Woods.

10 FRIDAY 27 APRIL

City Library 12.00 FREE-BOOKING REC. A Morning with Nigel Quinlan Limerick born writer Nigel Quinlan’s first novel, heT Maloneys’ Magical Weatherbox is based on a short story he wrote as a teenager while minding his parents’ petrol pumps. The sequel Cloak of Feathers was published in January 2018.

Nigel will meet with young readers to talk about the inspiration behind his new book The Cloak of Feathers.

Suitable for 8 – 12 year olds.

Nigel Quinlan TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH 13.00-14.00 FREE- BOOKING REC. City Library 16.00 FREE-BOOKING REC. Student Book Launch Launch of books written by transition Discussion with Anna McQuinn, year students from St. Angela’s College Writer and Publisher featuring works under several genres Anna McQuinn has worked as an editor, produced by the students themselves. writer and publisher of children’s books in the UK for almost 30 years. She has been Special guest is the Dublin writer of a champion of inclusion since she began several young adult fiction novels, working in the area and is on the board Claire Hennessy. of the Working Group Against Racism in Children’s Resources and the board of IBBY UK.

Suitable for those in the childcare sector.

Claire Hennessy Anna McQuinn

11 FRIDAY 27 APRIL

City Library 19.00 FREE Poetry and Discussion with Jo Shapcott and Maurice Riordan Jo Shapcott was born in London. She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Diana Darke Dušan Šarotar Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition (twice). Tender Taxes, her versions of Rilke, was published in 2001. TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH 20.30-21.30 5/6 Her most recent collection, Of Mutability, was published in 2010 and won the Home - From Syria and Slovenia Costa Book Award. She was awarded Diana Darke and Dušan Šarotar the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in A Syrian specialist and middle east 2011. cultural expert, Diana Darke’s My House in Damascus, details her love affair with Maurice Riordan was born in Lisgoold, Syria, a relationship that goes so deep Co. Cork and is a graduate of UCC. that she bought a house in the Old city His most recent collection of poems is in 2005. Her new book, The Merchant of The Water Stealer. Among his previous Syria will be published in April. collections are The Holy Land, Floods and A Word from the Loki. He edited Nominated for the Dublin Literary Award The Finest Music an anthology of early 2018 for Panorama, Slovenian writer Irish poetry in translation. He is a former Dušan Šarotar takes the reader on a editor of The Poetry Review and is deeply reflective journey from northern Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam to southern Europe – by way of Ireland University. - deftly blending fiction, history and journalism as he and a group of travellers Leanne O’Sullivan poet and lecturer in relate their unique stories and common creative writing at University College quest for somewhere they might call Cork will introduce the poets. home.

Both writers will give short readings from their work and will be in a conversation with writer and critic, Eileen Battersby.

Jo Shapcott Maurice Riordan 12 SATURDAY 28 APRIL

GRAND PARADE ALL DAY FREE City Library 13.00-14.00 FREE Art Installation Galician Readings and Translation In April Cork Community Art Link and Luz Pichel is a Galician poet and Cork City Libraries worked with children professor of literature and language from St Maries of the Isle Primary School in Madrid. She won the prestigious to explore the story of migration to International poetry prize ‘Premio Cork City. Participants took part in a Internacional de Poesía Ramón Jiménez’ Dušan Šarotar series of workshops during which they in 2004 and the ‘PremioEsquío’ for considered what it means to be part of Galician poetry for the collection ‘Casa TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH 20.30-21.30 5/6 an intercultural city and the benefits of a Pechada in 2006. She has published diverse population. many collections and is the director of the poetry seminar Euraca. Come and see the art installation representing migration from the Keith Payne was the Ireland Chair of perspective of the children. Poetry Bursary Award winner for 2015- 2016. His collection Broken Hill (Lapwing Publications, 2015), was followed by City Library 12.00&15.00 FREE Six Galician Poets (Arc Publications, 2016). He is director of The La Malinche Tallest Smallest Circus, Readings Ireland/Galicia and the Indian Puppet and Magic Show PoemaRia Poetry festival in Vigo. Arran Towers is the founder of Tallest Olga Novo is a Galician poet and Smallest Theatre, an exciting new essayist. She studied Galcian Philology at performance company for children. the University of Santiago de Compostela Based on a decade of experience, the and was Galician literature professor Tallest Smallest concept is to create at the University of Southern Brittany. highly adaptable, dynamic storytelling Olga’s works and essays feature in shows for young people, based around several publications (Festa da Palabra their participation and interaction. Silenciada, Dorna, Xistral, El País, ABC…).

Luz Pichel Olga Nova

13 SATURDAY 28 APRIL

City Library 14.00-15.00 FREE Here There and In-Between - Words of Home and Migration Launch by Senator Collette Kelleher and introduced by Paul Casey. Celebrating migration and interculturalism, these works are a culmination of creative writing workshops with the residents of the Kinsale Road Robyn Rowland Amanda Bell Accommodation Centre, held in The City Library with writers Kathy D’Arcy and Paul Casey. These emerging writers will Grand parade 15.30-17.00 FREE read from their works and will be joined by Cédric Bikond and award winning Fired! Poetry Trail Doire Press authors Robyn Rowland and – starts at Three Fools Coffee Shop Amanda Bell. Led by poet Kathy D’Arcy this event is part of a nationwide network of Cedric Bikond Nkoma is a 36 years old Irish women poets staging readings, French citizen. He has been living in discussions and events, reminding the Ireland since 2013. Most of his writing Irish literary world about the beautiful experience spans his stay in Cork and work and talented female poets who Cédric reads his work regularly at the have been erased from the canon of open-mic poetry sessions at Ó Bhéal. Irish literature. their words in venues around the city! Robyn Rowland is an Irish-Australian dual- citizen. She has written twelve books of poetry, including her most recent Line of Drift (Doire Press). Her work has been City Library-children’s library 13.30 FREE awarded a number of prizes and has been featured on Australian and Irish Story Time with Anna McQuinn national radio programs. Anna is a best selling author of over 30 picture books including the successful Amanda Bell is the winner of the 2015 Lulu series which is sold widely around William Allingham Prize and was highly the world. Championing inclusion and commended for the Patrick Kavanagh diversity in stories for children, Anna’s Award in 2015 and 2016 and is currently books have also been translated shortlisted for the Shine Strong award. into Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Brazilian Amanda’s debut full-length poetry Portuguese, French, Italian, Mandarin, collection is forthcoming from Doire Press. Chinese and Korean. Family fun and some free books!

14 SATURDAY 28 APRIL

City Library 19.00 FREE TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH 16.00 8 Home by the Lee From Facebook to Fiction An intercultural city, Cork embraces all those choosing to make this city Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen a home. New citizens celebrate their Oh My God, What A Complete Aisling place in Cork through a staging of their published by Gill Books, started life as poetry, prose and visual art. a Facebook page depicting a very particular type of Irish girl. The authors of this publishing phenomenon, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, have signed City Library 17.15 FREE a two-book deal – and there’s talk of a film - to continue the story of country girl Celebrating Catalan Women Writers; Aisling as she makes her way in the world.

Caterina Albert & Maria-Mercè Marçal In conversation with Deirdre Kathleen McNerney is Professor Emerita O’Shaughnessy, Editor, Cork’s 96fm of Hispanic Studies and Women’s Opinion Line Studies at West Virginia University. Her publications include Latin American, Castilian, and French literature, but most focus on Catalan women writers. Co-editor of Double Minorities of Spain has also edited collections of articles on Mercè Rodoreda and compiled a critical bibliography of Rodoreda’s work. She has translated four novels and many stories, essays, and poems. She has recently Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen translated the stories and a monologue by Caterina Albert, Silent Souls.

Caterina Albert Maria - Mercè Marçal 15 saturday 28 april

TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH 20.00 FREE-TICKETED A Celebration of New Fiction Denyse Woods and William Wall Of Sea and Sand will be Denyse Woods’ sixth novel. Set largely against the rugged, stunning landscapes of Oman, it will complete a trilogy of novels, with Overnight to Innsbruck and Like Nowhere Else set in the Arab world.

Introduced by Alannah Hopkin

William Wall will read from his ‘experiment in form’ – one story told in two forms, a collection of short stories and a novel. The short stories appear as The Islands and the novel form as Grace’s Day.

Introduced by Professor Lee Jenkins, Head of the School of English, UCC.

Denyse Woods William Wall

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TUESDAY 24TH

City Library 12.00 FREE-BOOKING REC. Story Ideas with Shane Hegarty Author Shane Hegarty will facilitate a workshop exploring story ideas with local school children. Shane Hegarty

WEDNESDAY 25TH

TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH 10.30-12.30 FREE-BOOKING REC. Manifestos: Poetry Workshop Sarah Clancy will introduce participants to writing some powerful pieces of spoken word poetry where the performers are saying something that matters deeply to them. Suitable for people new to poetry and for Sarah Clancy experienced writers who want to experiment.

THURSDAY 26TH

City Library 16.00 FREE Maistir-rang le Ré Ó Laighléis Máistir-Rang sa scríbhneoireacht i nGaeilge le Ré Ó Laighléis agus baill de chuid Peann & Pár, grúpa scríobhnoirí lonnaithe sa Leabharlann.

Fáilte roimh chách. Ré Ó Laighléis CORK WORLD BOOK FEST 2018 17 workshops

SATURDAY 28TH

TRISKEL CHRISTCHURCH 10.00-14.00 30 That killer First Chapter Have an idea for a novel and don’t know where to start? Have you finished your novel and want to make sure you avoid the rejection pile?

With lots of no-nonsense advice and practical exercises writer Paul McVeigh will help you write a first chapter that grabs the attention of agents, editors and readers. Paul McVeigh Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin

Sam Copeland is an agent at City Library 10.00-15.30 FREE Rogers, Coleridge & White. He is building an extremely diverse list, The Not so secret agents! representing writers of both literary The Agents: and commercial fiction, science Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin is the founder fiction, children’s (11+), serious and of The Inkwell Group publishing not-so-serious non-fiction. In fact, he consultancy and the award winning is happy to look at anything but self- national writing resources website help and business books. Writing.ie. Polly Nolan works at the Vanessa has placed many award Greenhouse Literary Agency, a winning and bestselling authors with trans-Atlantic agency specialising agents and publishers both in Ireland in writers for children and young and London. adults. She has vast experience of the world of children’s books, Chair of Irish PEN and a partner in The having commissioned and edited Rights Bureau Literary Agency Vanessa for Egmont, Orion, Oxford University writes crime as the No 1 bestselling Press, Scholastic and Macmillan author Sam Blake. Children’s Books.

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Simon Trewin is a partner at WME City Library 10.00-11.30 FREE-BOOKING REC. literary and talent agency. Simon has worked with authors who have Meet the Agents: been shortlisted for, or who have Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin will chat to won the Man Booker, the Costa Simon Trewain, Polly Nolan and Sam Book Of The Year, The Irish Book Of Copeland about their role, the current The Year, the IMPAC, the Bailey’s market and what everyone Prize for Women’s Fiction, the is looking for at the moment. Whitbread, the T S Eliot Poetry Prize, the British Children’s Book Of The Year and the Irish Short Story Prize. City Library 12.00-13.00 FREE-BOOKING REC.

He has twice been nominated as First Page Pitch: Agent Of The Year and once as Most 10 selected authors will read their first Inspiring Person In Digital Publishing. page (approx 300 words) to the agents His Irish writers include John Boyne, and the room. Our agents Claire Kilroy, Paul Lynch, John will give their feedback; the winner will Connell, Mary Costello and Sam receive a selection of books. Blake. To enter, email your firstpage by Saturday 21 April to: [email protected]. The top 10 writers will be notified ahead of the day.

City Library 14.00-15.30 FREE-BOOKING REC.

Sam Copeland Simon Trewin From Blank Page to Bookshelf: How to Get Published. Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin will find out from the room what everyone is working on and tailor a workshop to their needs. As Ireland’s leading literary scout she has placed bestselling and award winning authors and can helps writers at every stage of their career. Polly Nolan

19 World Book Festival Market

GRAND PARADE 10.00 - 17.00 FREE

A special treat at this year’s World Book At this year’s World Book Festival, Stanzas from Limerick bring you the Feast of Words! Come to their stall Festival Market on the Grand and choose from a delectable menu Parade expect a showcase of nouns, verbs, and descriptor words, of some of the best booksellers and they’ll cook up a poem or a story from the city and surrounds! right there on the spot with our vintage typewriter.

There will be some great Cork Stanzas is a group based in Limerick City food to go and some tasty for emerging writers to come and express themselves, develop their craft, met like- produce as well so be sure minded individuals or simply sit and listen. to drop down to the Grand parade and be entertained by words and rhyme.

For more information about participating in this event you can find us as Goldiefish on Facebook or email: [email protected]

The Cork World Book Festival Market is produced by Goldiefish Markets, who gather some of the country’s finest food and craft producers together to create the perfect festival markets.

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14.00 Monday 23 April Mindfulness for teens AT A GLANCE 13.00 17.45 River lee hotel City Library-Children’s Library Official Opening Open mic with Amy Snow 20.30 Triskel Christchurch 19.00 HOME - FROM SYRIA AND City Library tuesday 24 April SLOVENIA - Diana Darke and 10.00 Matthew Sweeney - My Life as a Painter City Library Dušan Šarotar A morning with Shane Hegarty THURSDAY 26 April saturday 28 April 19.00 10.00 All Day City Library City Library-Children’s Library Grand Parade Rainbow Writing Story, Rhythm and Rhyme with Deidre Art installation 20.00 Ryan 12.00-15.00 City Library 10.30 City Library Chang Ying-Tai and City Library Tallest Smallest Circus, Indian Puppet Billy O’Callaghan Ag Caint le Ré Ó Laighléis and Magic Show wednesday 25 April 11.30-12.30 & 15.30-16.30 13.00-14.00 City Library City Library 10.00-19.00 Poetry Surprises! Celebrating Galician readings and City Library Poetry Ireland Day translation Teen Day 14.00-15.00 19.00 City Library 10.35 City Library Here There and In-Between - City Library Bodies in the library; Crime fiction Words of Home and Migration. Launch: Graphic novel by by Julie Parsons and Kevin Doyle Eoin Coveney 15.30-17.00 20.00 Grand Parade 10.40 City Library Fired! The Three fools City Library Book Launch-To Keep a bird Short Story Competition Singing 13.30 City Library-Childen’s Library 10.50 20.30 Story time with Anna McQuinn City Library Triskel Christchurch Teen Committee Open invite DISCOVER TASMANIA 17.00 City Library 11.15 Nicholas Shakespeare Home by the Lee City Library Unfinished Book launch 17.15 Friday 27 April City Library 11.00 12.00 Celebrating Catalan women writers; City Library-Childen’s Library City Library Caterina Albert and Speed Dating with books A Morning with Nigel Quinlan Maria-Mercè Marçal 12.00 13.00-14.00 16.00 City Library-Children’s Library Triskel Christchurch Triskel Christchurch Teen Quiz Student Book Launch From Facebook to Fiction 13.00 16.00 20.00 City Library-Children’s Library City Library Triskel Christchurch Cardboard Cosplay Challenge Discussion with Anna McQuinn A Celebration of new fiction 13.00 19.00 Denyse Woods and William Wall City Library-Thomas Davis Room City Library LGBT Representation in Young Poetry and discussion with Jo Shapcott Adult Fiction and Maurice Riordan

WORKSHOPS thursday 26 April 10.00-15.30 12.00-13.00 tuesday 24 April City Library City Library 12.00 16.00 The Not so secret First page pitch City Library City Library agents! Story ideas with Shane Hegarty Maistir-rang le Ré Ó Laighléis 14.00-15.30 10.00-11.30 City Library City Library From blank page to wednesday 25 April SATURDAY 28 April Meet the agents! bookshelf:How to get 10.30-12.30 10.00-14.00 published Triskel Christchurch Triskel Christchurch Manifesto: Poetry Workshop That killer first chapter