Room 313 visual/audio response

Robbie Gannon, one of the LSAD students I worked with earlier this year, has posted the video response he made to my short story 'Room 313' and it's awesome!

Miss Emily Book Trailer

I haven't shared this here yet so here we go: the book trailer for Miss Emily.

KENNY'S YOUTUBE VIDEO OF 'MOTHER AMERICA'

As I mentioned a few days ago Kenny's Book Shop made a video of me reading the title story from the book - the story 'Mother America'. It is now live on the Kenny's YouTube Channel.

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Dermot Duffy AKA Freddy Futom was the winner of the book for International Short Story Day. Congrats Dermot :)

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The Irish Times mentions my trip to Arkansas today - myself and the other Irish delegates head off on Tuesday to the International Conference on the Short Story. Excitement! I want to thank The Arts Council and the Arts Office in Galway County Council for the support that has made it possible for me to go.

Mother America - Book Trailer

I've made a book trailer for Mother America (out June 4th!).

It's my first time to do this so it's a bit, shall we say, simple, but I hope you enjoy the extract and the pics, which I took on various trips to New York.

MADE IN BALLINASLOE

Here is mine and Úna Spain's contribution to the Group 8 exhibition (on all this week!), Made in Ballinasloe. My poetry, Úna's images and, towards the end, video footage.

GROUP 8 - EXHIBITION LAUNCH

The artist collective I'm a member of here in Ballinasloe launches its 2012 exhibition tomorrow night, March 10th, at 7pm, in Hayden's Hotel in the town. There will be wine, poetry, prose, song and art. Everyone is welcome! The exhibition runs until March 18th, daily from 11am to 6pm.

I collaborated with fellow member Úna Spain to creat a video poem. I'll pop it up onto YouTube shortly and link to here. The theme of our exhibition is 'Made in Ballinasloe' and my work features poems about Juno, my daughter, who was made in Ballinasloe. Úna shot stills and video to match the poems and I read the poems over the images; think rag trees, peacocks and pomegranates :)

See The Group 8 blog here for more.

YouTube READING OF 'PEACH'

So I am off on my Nebraska trip tomorrow and I'm really looking forward to getting going and to meeting my fellow readers and all the Prairie Schooner crew at the launch events in Lincoln.

I made a video of me reading 'Peach', my story that is in Prairie Schooner, and have posted it on YouTube. Because YouTube only allows clips, rather clunkily I've had to chop it up into four parts. But it's there anyway, for anyone who has oodles of time on their hands. Part 1 is below, the other parts are handily called Peach Part 2 etc.

Cheerio and talk to you all next week!

'PEACH' READING & NEBRASKA EVENTS

Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln

There's an audio clip of me reading from my story 'Peach' here at the Prairie Schooner site. The clip is taken from a video of me reading from the story. I have to chop up the video and get it up on YouTube - it's about half an hour long. The clip is just a few minutes, though.

I'm heading to Lincoln, Nebraska next week for the 2 day launch event of Prairie Schooner - can't wait! It's a bit of an adventure because I'm going alone. I normally have at least my husband with me. All that aeroplane time to read and think and write. Yay! And Lincoln seems very vegetarian friendly too, which is cool. Nom nom.

Schedule here:

Feb. 9th  - Sheldon Art Museum

1-2 p.m.: on-stage interview/reading with Sandra Bunting
 

2-3 p.m.: on-stage interview/reading with Nuala Ní Chonchúir
 

3:30-5 p.m.: panel on contemporary Irish literature

Feb. 10 - at Sheldon Art Museum

 
1-2 p.m.: on-stage interview/reading with Aidan Rooney
 

2-3 p.m.: on-stage interview/reading with Deanie Rowan Blank
 

3:30-5 p.m.: issue launch (guest readings from issue)
 

7-8 p.m.: reception
 

8 p.m.: readings from Bunting, Ní Chonchúir, Rooney, Blank

Here is some info on my fellow readers Sandra Bunting, Deanie Rowan Blank and Aidan Rooney.