Tag: Alan Hayes

Writing Festival, Writing Life, Writing News

Strokestown International Poetry Festival – Reading “1922”

Cover of Washing Windows Too Edited by Alan Hayes and Nuala O’Connor

I’m delighted to be taking part in this year’s Strokestown International Poetry Festival. I will be reading my poem “1922” alongside other women poets published in Washing Windows Too: Irish Women Write Poetry edited by Alan Hayes and Nuala O’Connor (Arlen House).

This event will feature readings from: Sorcha de Brún, Mary Rose Callaghan, Louise G. Cole, Sonya Gildea, Shauna Gilligan, Phyl Herbert, Susan Knight, Jackie Lynam, Noelle Lynskey, Jennifer Matthews, Triona McMorrow, Elizabeth Murtough, Denise Nagle, Úna Ní Cheallaigh, Margaret Nohilly, Margaret O’Brien, Margaret O’Driscoll, Siofra O’Meara, Ruth O’Shea & Janet Pierce.

Do join us in The Percy French Hotel on Saturday 30th April at 3.30pm!

With thanks to Alan Hayes and Strokestown International Poetry Festival for the invitation.

Book launch, Writing Life, Writing News

New Anthology – “Washing Windows Too: Irish Women Write Poetry” (Arlen House: Dublin, 2022)

Cover of Washing Windows Too (artwork showing female figures in shades of blue, greens, yellows)

I’m delighted to have a poem “1922” included in Washing Windows Too: Irish Women Write Poetry (Eds: Nuala O’ Connor and Alan Hayes), a new anthology featuring 100 Irish women poets who have not published a full poetry collection.

Congratulations to all the contributors! And thank you to Nuala and Alan for including my poem.

Pre-order your advance copy from the wonderful Books Upstairs until 14 March after which the book will be available to bookshops island-wide.

Writing News

New Writing and a New Year

Welcome, dear readers, to my new look website and blog! I am delighted to bring you more chats with writers from around the world and news of my writing from 2018 and beyond.

If you were to buy one book this year, why not spend your €20 on Reading The Future edited by Alan Hayes (Arlen House) and published to celebrate 250 years of Hodges Figgis in Ireland. Hodges Figgis is Ireland’s oldest bookshop. IMAG0038

I am delighted that an extract from my new novel set in Northern Spain in the 1930s “When The October Wind Comes” has been included in the anthology. I am one of 250 writers featured and what a wonderful publication of over 700 pages of writing….

Look out for notices of launches and readings throughout 2018.

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