Open Mic in Palmerstown - Red Line Book Festival

The Red Line Book Festival is all over the west of Dublin this October and this year the Irish Writers Centre is taking an open mic event to my grandparent's old house in Palmerstown, The Coach House, which is pretty cool. The Coach House is now a café and craft shop run by Stewart's Hospital. Details of the Red Line/IWC event below. Booking advised.

Takin' the Mic

Thursday 13th October

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: The Coach House, Palmerstown

Admission: FREE

The Irish Writers’ Centre is delighted to take its longstanding and one-of-a kind “Takin’ the Mic” to the Red Line Book Festival. We’re welcoming poets, prose writers, songwriters and musicians, comedians and anyone else who wants to have a go at our open mic night. Each performer will have five minutes and slots are on a first come, first served basis. This lively event will be hosted by comedian, writer and broadcaster Alison Spittle and there will also be several curated performances throughout the night from Stephen James Smith, Jessica Traynor and Kevin Curran. Stay tuned for full line-up details. In the meantime, get practising, prime your fans and prepare to take the mic this autumn!

Book here.

TALLAGHT, NEW YORK & BEYOND

I'm reading from my latest novel The Closet of Savage Mementos this Saturday at 2.30pm, at the Civic Theatre in Tallaght, as part of the Red Line Book Festival. I'm reading with Dónal Ryan, Dermot Bolger and John Sheahan. Blessed amongst men.

The festival is on all this week and my friend Shauna Gilligan is giving a free writing workshop on Saturday in Lucan Library, 10am to 1pm, Bookings: 01 621 6422.

After Red Line I am off to New York to meet my agent and my new editor at Penguin USA for lunch, then a meet-n-greet at the Penguin office. And after that I head to New Mexico where I am giving a talk on historical fiction, and my first reading from Miss Emily, at the Uni. of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Excited doesn't even come close!!