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The Limerick Writers' Centre Presents The April 2016 'On The Nail' Literary Gathering Tuesday 5 th April 2016 @ The Loft Venue @ The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick. Start 8.00pm sharp! This month guests are poet Daragh Bradish and poet and author Gerry Hanberry Daragh Bradish was born and raised in Terenure, Dublin. He spent his formative years in Bray, County Wicklow.  Studied fine arts and history in TCD. In recent years he has spent a great deal of time in Liscannor, County Clare.  Coming late to seriously writing, his first published poem was in Revival #18. He has since been published in journals in Ireland, UK and in Europe. Easter in March is first collection and is published by Liberty Press. Daragh has coordinated the Soundings for Simon readings to raise funds for Dublin Simon each year since 2010. Gerry Hanberry has published four collections of poetry to date and also a biography of the Wilde family, More Lives Than One - The Remarkable Wilde F...

The Limerick Writers' Centre Presents The February 2016 'On The Nail' Literary Gathering Tuesday 2nd Feb 2016 @ The Loft Venue @ The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick. Start 8.00pm sharp! This month we present the first of our 1916 commemoration events with a performance of: Breakfast with Padraig By Colm Scully and Conor McManus “Breakfast with Padraig” is a Spoken Word performance lasting 50 minutes. It includes original stories and poems about 1916 from Conor and Colm. It includes poetry from Thomas McDonagh. These are performed live, to an accompanying filmed backdrop where the rising is discussed on themes of prelude, event and reflection. This discussion is tempered with song, personal experience and humour. It is apolitical and non-judgemental, rather raising questions and strands of thought that may enlighten and urge the audience to think more deeply about the reasons for and ramifications of the Rising. Issues such as the role of women in the Rising,...

Introductory Course in Fiction Writing with Tara White in association with Limerick Writers' Centre Six weekly seminars covering all aspects of fiction writing, including: • Memory & Imagination • Characterisation • Narrative Voice & Point of View • Naming & Names • Opening Lines • Place • Plot & Story ... • Dialogue • Editing & Publication Time: 7 – 8.30pm, Wednesdays Duration: July 1st – August 5th inclusive Location: LWC, 12 Barrington St., Limerick Cost: €90 Contact: 087 9623604 | tarawhite.freelance@gmail. com ** Enrolling now until Friday June 26th ** No experience necessary Facilitator:Tara White's work has been featured in Irish and US literary journals since 2012. She received an MA and MFA in Creative Writing from UCD and went on to teach Creative Writing there in 2014. http:// www.pendulinepress.com/ contributors/tara-white/

The Limerick Writers' Centre Presents The June 2015 'On The Nail' Literary Gathering Tuesday 2nd June 2015 @ The Loft Venue @ The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick. Start 8.00pm sharp! This months guests are writers Mike Gallagher and John McGrath. Mike Gallagher , writer, poet and editor, was born on Achill Island and worked in London for forty years before retiring to Kerry. His prose, poetry, haiku and songs have been published in Ireland and throughout Europe, America, Australia, Nepal, India, Thailand, Japan and Canada. His writing has been translated into Croatian, Japanese, Dutch, German and Chinese. He won the 2009 Samhlaiocht Slam, the 2010 Michael Hartnett Viva Voce competition, he was shortlisted for the Hennessy Award in 2011 and won the Desmond O'Grady International Poetry Contest in 2012. His poetry collection Stick on Stone was published by Revival Press in 2013. John McGrath is a poet, writer and retired teacher who lives in Lisselton, Nort...

The Limerick Writers' Centre Presents The May 2015 'On The Nail' Literary Gathering Tuesday 5 th May. 2015 @ The Loft Venue @ The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick. Start 8.00pm sharp! This months guests are poets Ann Marie Kennedy and Evan Cosigan and special guest from the USA Robert Fanning. Anne Marie Kennedy , has an MA in Writing from NUI Galway and is the winner of the Molly Keane Creative Writing Award 2014. She is an award winning performance poet. Her prose and poetry has been published in ROPES, Blackheart Magazine, the Colony, the Galway Review, Irish Central, the SHOp ,and Boyne Berries among others. A regular contributor and twice winner of the People’s Choice Award at Baffle Poetry Festival, Loughrea, she qualified at the Cúirt Poetry Grand Slam, to perform at Electric Picnic. She has had work broadcast on Sunday Miscellany, freelances for Irish Music Magazine and is a regular contributor at the Moth and Butterfly storyteller’s nights i...

The Limerick Writers' Centre Presents The February 2015 'On The Nail' Literary Gathering Tuesday 3 rd Feb.   2015 @ The Loft Venue @ The Locke Bar , Georges Quay, Limerick. Start 8.00pm sharp! This month guest readers Cork poet Colm Scully and writer Kathleen Thorne. Colm Scully is from Cork where he lives with his wife and three children. His twenty years working in industry as a chemical engineer combine with his interest in history, philosophy and science to provide the back drop to many of his poems. In 2014, Colm received the Cúirt New Writing Poetry Prize, and was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductory Series, while he was also commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize. CATHERINE THORNE is a native of Ballina, in the County of Tipperary, across the Shannon from Killaloe. In another life she taught English, French and Geography. Her passions are gardening, reading, writing and her doggie. She is a director of the Killaloe Hedge-School of Writing, and...

The Limerick Writers' Centre Presents The January 2015 'On The Nail' Literary Gathering Tuesday 13th Jan 2015 @ The Loft Venue @ The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick. Start 8.00pm sharp! This month guest readers short story writer Eddie Stack and poet Margaret M Glasgow, who will be launching her new poetry collection. Eddie Stack is from west Clare and teaches at UC Berkeley in CA. He has published a fourth collection of short stories last year titled Borderline and has received several accolades for his fiction, including an American Small Press of the Year Award, and a Top 100 Irish American Award. Recognised as an outstanding short story writer, he is the author of three previous collections of short stories—The West, Out of the Blue and Quare Hawks; HEADS, a novel, and The Irish, three novellas. His work has appeared in literary reviews and anthologies worldwide, including Fiction, Confrontation, Whispers & Shouts, Southwords and Criterion;...

The Limerick Writers' Centre Presents The March 'On The Nail' Literary Gathering Tuesday 5th March 2013 in The Loft Venue @ The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick. Start 8.00pm sharp! This month launch of Revival Literary Journal No.25 plus guest readers Fred Johnston and Mark Roper and open-mic. Fred Johnston was born in Belfast Northern Ireland,.educated there and Toronto, Canada, lived for a time in Spain and Africa and after that in Dublin. Currently he lives in Galway. He is author of a collection of stories from Parthian (Wales) 2011; and ‘Orangeman’, a collection of stories in French, from Terre de Brume (France) 2010. Johnston worked as a fulltime journalist, writer and sub-editor for some years for Irish Press. He teaches Creative Writing at NUIG (Adult Education). Fred Johnston is Founder of the Western Writers’ Centre – Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlín Maude – based in Galway (www.twwc.ie). Mark Roper has published 5 poetry collections, most recently Even ...

The Limerick Writers' Centre Presents Tuesday 5th June 2012 @ 8.00pm June 'On The Nail' Literary Gathering Upstairs@Foley's Bar, Sarsfield St, Limerick (Limericks Newest Live Venue for Music and the Arts) Organised by The Limerick Writers' Centre this popular monthly reading and open-mic continues to attract audiences with a mix of poetry, prose and music. This month (June) our guests are Afric McGlinchey, Paul Casey and Eleanor Hooker Plus Gabhar Theatre return with another 10 Minute Play ‘Cetaciaphobia’ by Shane Vaughan. Afric McGlinchey grew up in various countries in Africa, returning to Ireland in 1999. A Hennessy Award winner, her poems have been published in a number of literary journals, including the SHOp, Acumen, Magma, Moth, Poetry Ireland Review, Southword, the Independent and the Sunday Tribune. She was also awarded a Faber Academy Fellowship and has had poems shortlisted in several competitions. A poem was recently nominated for the Pu...

On The Nail literary readings are brought to you by The Limerick Writers' Centre - LIMERICK CITY'S LITERARY EVENTS ORGANISATION: Serving writers and literature fans in the Mid-West area - poetry readings, fiction readings, poetry workshops, creative writing classes, poetry slams, info on all literature events in Limerick City & surrounds. Contact: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 email limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com Next event Thursday 5th November 8.30pm at The Locke Bar, Georges Quay, Limerick (check back for details).