Windows into Other Worlds - short story event at the Red Line Book Festival
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Windows into Other Worlds – short story event at the Red Line Book Festival
As the short story continues to go from strength to strength, a panel of Hennessy- award winning authors will look at the different aspects of writing in this genre and share their insights into crafting a winning story in Windows into Other Worlds at the Civic Theatre on Friday 16th October.
Awarding winning authors Niamh Boyce (The Herbalist), Ferdia Mac Anna (Last of the High Kings), Michael O’Higgins (Snapshots published just this week) and Máire T. Robinson (Skin, Paper, Stone) will discuss the importance of the short story and how it fits into today’s literary world. “We’re delighted to host these four award winning writers at the Loose End Studio in the Civic Theatre as part of the Red Line Book Festival” said Caroline Higgins, one of the festival organisers. “As English author of short stories, novels and comic books, Neil Gaiman, is quoted as saying; ‘Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner’”.
Windows into Other Worlds – short story panelstarts at 8.15pm on Friday 16th October in the Loose End Studio, in Tallaght’s Civic Theatre. Admission is €8/€6 and seats are limited in this intimate performance space. Bookings for this event can be made by phoning the booking office at the Civic Theatre on (01) 462 7477 or by e-mail to boxoffice@civictheatre.ie.
Windows into Other Worlds is one of the 33 events that made up the fourth annual Red Line Book Festival. The festival is funded by South Dublin County Council and managed by South Dublin Libraries and Arts. The programme aims to develop a high profile book festival for the county showcasing the best of national and international contemporary writing which will have a significant impact on the literary landscape of Ireland.
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For further details on events contact: Caroline Higgins or Patricia Fitzgerald on 01 4597834 or info@redlinebookfestival.com
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Niamh Boyce won the 2011 Hennessy Award for her poem Kitty. Her novel The Herbalist won Newcomer of the Year at the 2013 Irish Book Awards and was long-listed for an IMPAC. Her stories have been shortlisted in the Hennessy, Francis Mac Manus and Molly Keane Awards, published in literary magazines, and anthologised. Her poetry collection was highly commended in the 2013 Patrick Kavanagh Award. She is working on a new novel and a short story collection.
Ferdia Mac Anna is a director of Film and TV dramas, novelist and screenwriter. His book The Last of the High Kings was made into a film starring Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Rea and Christina Ricci.
Michael O’Higgins previously worked as a journalist for Hot Press and Magill Magazine. His two stories published in New Irish Writing, The Great Escape (2007) and The Migration (2009) were both Hennessy award-winners. His first novel, Snapshots, will be published by New Island Books in October 2015. By day, he works as a trial lawyer in the Criminal Courts of Justice.
Máire T. Robinson lives in Dublin. She graduated from NUI, Galway in 2008 with a Masters in Writing. Since then, her short stories have been published in the Irish Independent, Horizon Review and Crannóg Magazine. Máire was nominated for a Hennessy Literary Award in Emerging Fiction in 2012, and was the overall winner of the Doire Press Chapbook Competition, 2013. Her chapbook of short stories, Your Mixtape Unravels My Heart, was published by Doire Press. Her first novel, Skin, Paper, Stone was out earlier this year.
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