The National Children’s Literary Festival is incorporated in Listowel Writers’ Week. This year there’s an imagination tickling programme of events for children and it’s bursting out in various venues throughout the town. Half tired from packing the programme with all the events and from trying to get the lid on it all, Chairperson, Liz Dunn…
Listowel Writers’ Week organisers have issued an open invitation to their 46th festival which will be held from May 31st. to June 4th. 2017. They’re thrilled to share the programme with you and we are now open for booking. “There’s a joyful mix of all genres of literature, poetry, comedy, art, theatre and of course…
The organisers of the annual Listowel Writers’ Week are thrilled and delighted to announce that the wonderfully talented John Spillane is due in Listowel to teach a three-day Song Writing Workshop during the festival. John is a musician, songwriter, performer, recording artist, storyteller, poet, dreamer. His music transports listeners; his live performance captivates the audience.…
You may not believe this but bookings are being taken and organisers in Listowel are getting excited about an event scheduled for there next June. “We are thrilled to reveal that Graham Norton will be joining us once more for Listowel Writers’ Week on Saturday, June 3rd. 2017, with his award-winning debut novel Holding. Our…
There was a Castleisland prize-winner at this week’s Listowel Writers’ Week. Mary Neligan took a runner-up prize for her short story, The Affair when the various category winners and prize-winners were announced on Wednesday evening at the opening ceremony. Mary, a member of the St. John of God – Oileán Beo community at An Riocht…
The shortlisted works in a variety of categories for next month’s Listowel Writers’ Week Creative Writing Competitions have been announced. “We would like to say a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who submitted their short stories, essays, poems and plays for our 2016 Creative Writing Competitions and we encourage you to continue writing and submitting…
It’s a case of Let the Magic Begin in Listowel from this Wednesday evening, May 27th. Here we take a look at what’s on and a photographic trip back through a spread of ‘weeks’ in Listowel from recent years. This year’s Listowel Writers’ Week Festival, which runs from May 27th – 31st May 2015 will…
Listowel Writers’ Week has just announced its shortlisted poetry collections for a final prize €5,000. Five Irish Poets have today been announced as finalists for this year’s inaugural Pigott Poetry Prize for 2014. The €5,000 award will be presented to the overall winner at the opening ceremony of the festival on the Wednesday, May 28th.…
