Writers at Nenagh Tourist Office
This Thursday, June 30, at 7.30pm, Dromineer Nenagh Literary Festival will hold a festival midsummer showcase in Nenagh Tourist Office at Banba Square.
The event is part of Nenagh Tourist Office Summer Sessions in association with the LLPPS Scheme, Tipperary Arts Office, Nenagh Live, Spain AV and The Dept of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
The event is completely free of charge, so please come along and enjoy what promises to be an entertaining evening. The festival committee are thrilled to welcome Eleanor Hooker, Siobhan MacGowan, Bernie Crawford, and Noelle Lynsky to take part in the event with a special musical performance by Lisa Manning.
Eleanor Hooker’s third poetry collection Of Ochre and Ash (Dedalus Press) and her chapbook Legion (Bonnefant Press, Holland) were published in 2021. A recipient of the Markievicz Award in 2021, her poetry book Where Memory Lies (Ponc Press) will be published later this year. Her sequence of plague poems is forthcoming from Salvage Press. Her poetry has been published in literary journals in Ireland and worldwide in: UK, USA, India, Australia, Hungary, Portugal, Romania and Holland. Eleanor is a helm and Press Officer for Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat.
Born to Irish parents in Brighton, England, Siobhan MacGowan started her career at the Kent & Sussex Courier as a copywriter, branching into freelancing for advertising agencies, and journalism. Her story for children, Etain’s Dream, was serialised in the Nenagh Guardian. Siobhan’s first novel, The Trial of Lotta Rae, was published by the Welbeck Publishing Group on May 26, 2022. She is currently working on her second novel. The Trial of Lotta Rae has just been named one of the five best historical novels for June by the UK Times. Siobhan will read from The Trial of Lotta Rae on Thursday evening.
Originally from Co Limerick, Bernie Crawford lives in Co Galway and her poetry has been published in national and international journals and anthologies including New Irish Writing in the Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, the North magazine, Mslexia, Banshee, Stony Thursday Book, Crannog. She was awarded an arts bursary by Galway County Council in 2019 to work towards a debut collection. Her first full collection, ‘Living Water’, was published by Chaffinch Press in June 2021.
Director of Shorelines Arts Festival and a community pharmacist in Portumna, Noelle Lynskey is completing her MA (Creative Writing) in UL and was selected as Strokestown’s Poet Laureate in 2021. She is published in many anthologies and journals and is guest reader at many events and festivals. Noelle is a member of Portumna Pen Pushers and Ballinasloe Peers.