CORK WORLD BOOK FEST Mon 23 - Sat 28 April 2018 City Library - Grand Parade Triskel Christchurch BOOKING INFORMATION Cork City Library Triskel Christchurch Library events are free of charge In Person: Triskel Box Office and tickets are not required. By phone: 021 4272022 Where pre-booking is specified 24hr Online Booking: you can do so, www.triskelartscentre.ie In person: Reception desk By Phone: 021-4924900 follow us on social media 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.