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Festival Exhibition 2012 - Allegory by Sarolta BánA joint venture with Man-made Images, Photographic Art Gallery Mountcharles, Donegal“I think old trees are so wise. I have always seen this, I feel something insidethem, what people have forgotten, but they have not.“ - Sarolta BánSarolta Bán was born in 1982 inBudapest, Hungary. Originally ajewellery designer, she laterdiscovered digital photomanipulation which is now hermain focus.The exhibition will be open tothe public for the duration ofthe festival in Lough Derg YachtClub and all works will be on sale.Get to work! An integral part of the festivalsince its inception, the 2012 workshopspromise to inspire.WRITING POETRY with Fiona Sampson,Saturday, October 13th, 10.00am – 12.30pm,Lough Derg Yacht Club.SHORT STORY WRITING with NessaO’Mahony Saturday, October 13th, 10.00am– 12.30pm, Lough Derg Yacht Club.Transition Year Writing Workshops withGrace WellsThursday 11th & Friday October 12th,Lough Derg Yacht Club.www.dromineerliteraryfestival.ieDetails:€15 Fee includes a light lunch. Booking isessential.Workshop requirements can be found here:www.dromineerliteraryfestival.ie/workshopsSHORT STORY JUDGE & WORKSHOPFACILITATORNessa O'Mahony was bornin Dublin and lives inRathfarnham where sheworks as a freelance teacherand writer. She haspublished three books – herfirst collection, Bar Talk,appeared in 1999. Her second, Trapping aGhost, was published in 2005. A verse novel,In Sight of Home, was published by Salmonin 2009.

Dromineer Festival Poetry- Thursday 11 October 8pm Lough Derg Yacht Club €10This year’s event celebrates poets and Poetry, presenting established and new voices in anintimate evening of poetry overlooking Lough Derg. We warmly welcome Fiona Sampson, PatBoran, Grace Wells, Leeanne Quinn and Eleanor Hooker.Pat Boran was bornin Portlaoise, Irelandin 1963 and currentlylives in Dublin.He is a poet, memoirist,short story writer,non-fiction writer,editor, broadcasterand publisher at TheDedalus Press. He haspublished five collectionsof poetry.His New and Selected Poems appearedfrom Salt Publishing in 2005 and was reissued,with minor revisions, by Dedalus in2007. His new collection of poems The NextLife was launched in September 2012.Boran is a former editor of Poetry IrelandReview and presenter of The PoetryProgramme on RTÉ Radio 1. A member ofAosdána, he received the LawrenceO’Shaughnessy Poetry Award in 2008.Fiona Sampson’smost recent booksinclude a new editionof Percy Bysshe Shelleyfor Faber (2011,Poetry Book SocietyBook Club Choice)and Music Lessons:The Newcastle PoetryLectures (2011). She ispublished in more thanthirty languages,and her eleven books in translation includingPatuvachki Dnevnik, were awarded theZlaten Prsten (Macedonia, 2004). Sampsonworks as a translator and editor and contributesregularly to The Guardian, The IrishTimes, The Sunday Times, The Independentand the TLS. She is currently DistinguishedWriter at the University of Kingston and VisitingResearch Fellow at the School of AdvancedStudy, University of London.Her critical survey of contemporary Britishpoetry, Beyond the Lyric (Chatto) appearsthis September, and her next collection,Coleshill, also from Chatto, in January 2013.Grace Wells is an awardwinningpoet and children’sauthor. Her debut poetrycollection, ‘ When God HasBeen Called Away to Greater Things’ (Dedalus Press) won the 2011 Rupertand Eithne Strong Best First Collection Award and was short-listed for theLondon Fringe Festival New Poetry Award. She reviews Irish poetry for the University ofChicago’s online literary journal, Contrary, for The Stinging Fly and for Poetry IrelandReview. She lives in County Tipperary on the side of Sliabh na mBan.Leeanne QuinnBefore You, herdebut collection ofpoetry, was publishedby The Dedalus Pressin February 2012.Eleanor Hooker livesin North Tipperary. TheShadow Owner’sCompanion, her debutcollection of poetry,was published by TheDedalus Press inFebruary 2012.(Photograph by Adrian Pope)

Meet the Authors - Saturday 13th October 8pm-10pm, Lough Derg Yacht Club €12/10Claire Keegan, Kevin Barry, Madeleine D’Arcy, James Martyn Joyce and Elizabeth Reapy inconversation with Alan Hayes.As 2012 celebrates the Short Story, we are delighted that internationally acclaimed authorsin that genre, Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry will headline this event. A fresh element tothe festival this year is the introduction of ‘New Voices’; writers who are beginning theircareers or who have recently published their first collections in poetry and/or short stories.In prose we are introducing Madeleine D’Arcy, James Martyn Joyce and Elizabeth Reapy.Alan Hayes, Publisher at Arlen House will chair a panel discussion with these authors.Claire Keeganwas raised inrural Ireland,studied Literatureand Politicsat LoyolaUniversity, NewOrleans, andearned an MAat the Universityof Wales and anM.Phil in TrinityCollege, Dublin.She is the author of multi-award winningshort story collections, Antarctica,(1999 Faber & Faber) and Walk the BlueFields, (Faber & Faber).Her short storyFoster (2010) which won The Davy ByrnesAward, judged by Richard Ford, was subsequentlypublished by Faber & Faber andabridged for The New Yorker.It was published in Best American ShortStories, 2010. Keegan’s stories have beentranslated into 12 languages.Kevin Barry lives in County Sligo. He isthe author of the story collections Dark LiesThe Island and There Are Little Kingdomsand the novel City Of Bohane.He has been awarded the Rooney Prize forIrish Literature. His stories have appearedin the New Yorker, Best European Fiction,the Granta Book of the Irish Short Storyand manyotherjournals andanthologies.In Marchof thisyear, KevinBarry’s shortstory BeerTrip toLlandudnowon theSundayTimes ShortStory award.Alan Hayes is publisher of Arlen House, one of Ireland’s oldest literaryimprints, and a member at the management team of Dublin UN-ESCO City of Literature. He was a founder of the Dublin Book Festivaland its former Artistic Director, and former President of PublishingIreland during its most successful period. He is the author of manybooks and is currently researching a biography John Brennan and HerSisters and a history of Irish feminist and literary publishing.NEW VOICES – SHORT STORIESIn 2012 Madeleine D’Arcy was awarded a Hennessy Literary Award for FirstFiction as well as the overall Hennessy Award of New Irish Writer.James Martyn Joyce is from Galway. His collection of short stories,What’s Not Said was published by Arlen House in 2012.In 2010 Elizabeth Reapy she co-founded and is currentlyeditor of wordlegs.com. In 2011 she was selected as the Irish ExchangeWriter 2012 in Varuna Writers’ House, Sydney.

Festival Club with Pat McCabe- Sat 13 Oct 10pm till Late The Whiskey Still, Dromineer.Pat McCabe, author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto willbe chatting to an audience in The Whiskey Still pub in the village.This promises to be an evening of fun, interesting conversation andmusic so come along and make your voice heard.Patrick McCabe, playwright and novelist, was born in 1955 in Clones,County Monaghan. He is the author of five novels includingThe Butcher Boy (1992), The Dead School (1995), and Breakfast onPluto (1998). The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto were bothshortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction and were also adapted forfilm and directed by Neil Jordan. He is also the author of a children'sbook, The Adventures of Shay Mouse (1985), and a collection of linked short stories, MondoDesperado, published in 1999. His short stories have been published in the Irish Times andthe Cork Examiner and his work has been broadcast by RTÉ in Ireland and the BBC.Children’s writing competition judgeMary Arrigan studied at the National College of Art, Dublin, and at FlorenceUniversity. Her teen novel Esty’s Gold, one of her forty two publishedbooks, was short-listed for the West Sussex Children’s Book Award 2010.Awards include the International White Ravens title (Munich),a Bisto MeritAward, The Sunday Times Crime Writers Association Award and The HennessyShort Story Award.SATURDAY AFTERNOON WORDS & MUSIC ON THE GREENIn the village on Saturday (weather permitting, there is a Plan B) theBee Loud Glade jazz band will be performing their unique brand ofperformance poetry so bring your sambos and dress for the weather to fullyenjoy this autumnal treat. The band, in collaboration withThe Nenagh Players will close the festival on Sunday night in aperformance at LoughDerg Yacht club.SATURDAY BOOK LAUNCHOur book launch this year is “Sailing on Lough Derg: Photographs fromthe collections of Susan Tait” edited by locals Stephen & Andrew TierneySUNDAY AFTERNOON AFLOAT ON LOUGH DERGOf course the festival wouldn’t be complete without our event afloat onLough Derg, and this year we are delighted that Lorna Siggins (author &marine correspondant for the Irish Times) and Lola Leech long time sailoron the inland waterways will be in conversation.Lorna Siggins was born in Glasgow, Scotland, of Sligo parentage and Siggins was appointed astaff journalist for The Irish Times in 1988 andWestern and Marine correspondent inDecember 1997. Based in Galway, she is author of Everest Calling(Mainstream) on the first Irish ascent of Mount Everest; The Woman WhoTook Power in the Park (Mainstream), a biography of former Irish presidentMary Robinson; Mayday! Mayday!(Gill and Macmillan), an account of airsearescue in Irish waters, and Once Upon a Time in The West: The Corrib GasControversy (Transworld), which won TV3 Media Awards Book of the Year in2010.

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