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Wisdom Stories from Around the World: Wexford based storyteller, Margaret Galvin believes that It is through story that we understand. Join her for a compelling session of wisdom tales to increase our understanding of the ways of the world. Travel with her to the unlikely stronghold of the Earl of Benbo, to the cafe where cranes dance on the wall. Hear about the trickster’s pot that gave birth! Learn why the poor man gave away a diamond. Be enchanted and inspired. FULLY BOOKED

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Pat Jordan has over twenty five years experience in story-telling and narrates funny stories about ordinary life events. His performance will be sprinkled with music supplied by Brendan Wickham on tin whistle and uilleann pipes, and John Kenny on piano accordion.

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Brendan Power’s workshop will cover such areas as what makes a good story, the difference between the written and the verbal, where to find stories, how to develop them and how to deliver them.

To reserve a place, please purchase an admission ticket to Write By The Sea on Eventbrite, then contact writebytheseakq@gmail.com quoting your name, your ticket order number and the name of this session and storyteller you wish to attend.

Jo has worked in publishing for eight years.  She set up JULA working initially in association with RCW, and then in September ’16 opened her fully independent agency. Based at Somerset House she now has over thirty published (or soon-to-be-published) authors. She represents authors of literary fiction, commercial women’s fiction, Young Adult fiction, children’s fiction, comic writing and narrative non-fiction. In the last year alone she has had two authors longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, two longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Award, one shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize, one for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, one for the Costa First Novel, a winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award as well as several Sunday Times bestsellers.

A talk presented by author, historian and broadcaster, Liam Gaul, Outlining the work involved in researching, writing and publishing local historical events.

Sinead will be hosting a workshop on Irish crime fiction, starting with a discussion of contemporary trends and her own work. Sinead will then host an interactive session with the readers to include writing as well as reading crime fiction, and the publishing process.

John has written for theatre, he is a well known contributor to Sunday Miscellany, and has published collections of short stories. Richard Hayes will interview him on his work as a writer followed by Q&A

In the wake of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature, and Kendrick Lamar winning the Pulitzer Prize, Eleanor McEvoy explores the power of lyrics. Looking to her own songs and those of other writers, she explores the place song lyrics hold in today’s society.