Ennis Book Club Festival 2010
SOME of the best-known names in Irish and international literature will participate in the Ennis Book Club Festival next year.
Contributors include Joseph O’Connor and Lionel Shriver to the festival, to be held March 5-7, 2010.
The event will be supported by Clare County Library and is expected to attract several hundred-book lovers from all over Europe and North America.
There will also be the Book Club of the Year Award, which will be the first time Ireland has given this award.
One of the highlights of the weekend will be The Sunday Symposium, during which Diarmuid Ferriter and Tim Pat Coogan will join a panel who will then discuss the subject of Reading History.
All library staff nationwide will be invited to a free workshop, on how to start, develop and challenge a book club.
Meanwhile, the 2010 festival features Ireland’s foremost Book Club of the Year Award.
The winning Book Club will receive a prize of free weekend passes to festival events and overnight accommodation at the Temple Gate Hotel in Ennis.
Entry forms, which are being distributed throughout the country, must be submitted by Friday January 8, 2010. (Up to a maximum of six people from the winning Book Club may receive the award)
See www.ennisbookclubfestival.com.
‘Book table’ opens for writers
LIMERICK Writers’ Centre January programme starts with the launch of Revival Poetry Journal No. 14 on Thursday 14, 8pm at Locke Bar & Restaurant. According to organiser Dominic Taylor, local, national and international poets are included and a number of them will read from the journal on the night.
Poet John W Sexton will launch and read from his new collection Petit Mal, published by Revival Press during the evening.
As usual at this monthly series, music will be provided by Chris Wood and friends. Everyone is invited to take part in the open-mic after the main event, poets, storytellers, musicians and writers.
The night begins at 8pm and there is free admission and free finger food for everyone attending, “So join us on the night and make this event something special,” says Taylor.
The special authors book table run by this group will again be in operation. If you want your book, CD’s and so on publicised, make sure you are represented. Contact email limerickwriterscentre@gmail.com or refer to website http://onthenailreadings.blogspot.com for arrangements.
