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First draft of the cover for the print edition of The Secret Diary of Stephanie Agnew. How’s she looking?

So we launched the 2024 JOHN HEWITT INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL yesterday in sunny Armagh! Thx to Lord Mayor of Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon - Cllr. Sarah Duffy SF - for coming down & bringing her bling!

Dates are 22-27 July. Please go to johnhewittsociety.org/#programme for full programme!

Delighted to return to The John Hewitt Society 26th July with my one woman show ‘Becoming Marvellous’. Always an amazingly inspiring week. Huge thanks to everyone for support . Tickets are selling . Be quick marketplacearmagh.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/sh…?

Well now. Here’s the weekend with Women Aloud NI: @Cavetraveller Angeline King Writer Shelley Tracey Orla McAlinden Lesley Walsh Houston Angela Graham Ald Yvonne Boyle Byddi Lee Adeline Henry Sharon Dempsey @EllieRose101 Gaynor Kane Anne McMaster HouseofMel Sue Divin Elizabeth McQuillan Kerriann Speers ✍️

Dipping into Damien Donnelly's Back From Away and remembering how he brought me to tears at his launch with this poem Turas Press

Today's the day... #ProgramneLaunch #JHISS24

Delighted to hear that the Women Aloud NI anthology 'North Star' has been longlisted for the
Carousel Aware Prize Prize. Huge thanks to Leschenault Press for entering it.

If you haven’t read it, you can buy it here: amzn.eu/d/31FO8LZ

#CAPAwards
#readingcommunity

Delighted to hear that #NorthStar has been longlisted for a CAP award. I've a short story in here about the Armagh train crash!

It was amazing yest to do a (sold out!) event at Dalkey Book Festival on ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’, talking about global inequality & human rights abuses on our borders. I’m so grateful this book is still getting attention. Thank you to the kind audience & interviewer GARY JERMYN.

We’re at The Walrus on Tuesday 25th June with very special guest, Saboteur Award winning, Cathy Carson. For tickets (£5/£3 trybooking.com/uk/DNCM), for a reader slot please email us at [email protected]

Blooming marvellous news on #Bloomsday over at TheStormsJournal

Get your pens, paint brushes and cameras and creative minds ready, the countdown is on to submissions opening
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Congratulations to Armagh writer Laura Mc Loughin on her book due out in October 2024!

IMPACT, the play, in print, was launched by the Lord Mayor of Armagh in the Palace on the 135th anniversary of the train disaster that took 89 lives, injured hundreds more and brought about a change in legislation to ensure it never happened again. bit.ly/impact-armagh

Lord Mayor Cllr Sarah Duffy recently welcomed members of @armaghtheatre to The Palace, Armagh to launch the book ‘IMPACT: Armagh’s Train Disaster’.

Flash Fiction at Crannagael House House

Enjoy a diverse array of short stories read by talented writers, offering something for every taste. It's a perfect chance to meet and mingle with new, emerging, and well-established authors.

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#FoodAndCiderWeekend24

Tomorrow! As part of the mini book festival of SecretBookshelf in Carrickfergus with Karen Mooney for our Hedgehog Poetry poetry conversation with special guest Gaynor Kane and others

IMPACT, the play, in print, was launched by the Lord Mayor of Armagh in the Palace on the 135th anniversary of the train disaster that took 89 lives, injured hundreds more and brought about a change in legislation to ensure it never happened again. bit.ly/impact-armagh

I’m delighted to share Unbecoming this evening, 6.30, SecretBookshelf alongside Emma McKervey who will read from Highland Boundary Fault.
Jo and Chris are such champions of local writers and their bookstore is just gorgeous.

#poetry #carrickfergus #truecrime #truecrime poetry

Another chance to catch this amazing show!