VIENNA - SHORT STORY CONFERENCE - PHOTOS

Art in our apartment

Oh, Vienna! You have me tired. I must be getting truly old when a trip to Europe wipes me out as much as a long-hauler. It was, of course, a great breakaway and it is always a joy to meet with friends old and new at the Short Story Conference. Our airbnb apartment was fantastic (large and antique furniture filled), so that was a bonus, particularly with Juno in tow. And with the temps in the mid-thirties. Swoon.

Sachertorte!

Anyhoo, we ate Sachertorte at the Belvedere and vegan ice-cream at Eis Greissler, we U-bahned and trammed, walked and drank bier, and had a go in the Riesenrad ferris wheel (featured in the film Before Sunrise). I read and was on a panel and I introduced the lovely Madeleine Darcy along with the equally fab Shirley Abbott.

My photos are a mixed bag (Embassy ones are particularly bad) but here are some others for what it is worth.

Juno at The Belvedere, where we saw Klimt's 'The Kiss'

Robert Olen Butler reads at Literaturhaus

Lots of horsedrawn carriages on the streets

Irish/Scottish writer Dónal McLaughlin reads at the Juridicum, Uni of Vienna

View from the Riesenrad

Golden statue on a Viennese corner

Lots of fun graffiti in beautiful Vienna

Juno in hat

In our apartment before our farewell party at the Heurigen (wine-tavern)

Me, Madeleine Darcy and Shirley Abbott

The linked stories panel I was on: me, Lucy Durneen, Kelly Cherry, Adnan Mahmutovic - Robert Luscher behind

Juno with Pinocchio

Finbar on Stephansplatz

Tania Hershman and I, new tattoo comparing

Yamm! is the veggie place in Wien. Finbar had vegan frogspawn cake. Or something...

My reading-mate I-Wei Wu, our introducer Madeleine Darcy and me

At the Irish Embassy waiting to read, with Maurice Lee and a beatific looking Alan McMonagle

Ying Tai Chang introduces Billie Travalini

Billie Travalini reads

Billy O'Callaghan reads at the Irish Embassy

Juno running through the very posh Ferstel Arcade

The flea market - we went with Tania. The heat was unbearable that day.

Free books stalls near our apartment being replenished by a lovely man

Pals! Pat Jourdan, me, Billie T and Tania

Paul McVeigh introduces Pat Jourdan

Jim Grady is alarmed by Wiener Würstchen at the
Heurigen

Ailsa Cox & Elizabeth Baines, warming up at the Heurigen

Yamm! lunch: Adnan, Vaness Gebbie, Jarred McGinnis, Zoe Gilbert, Tania, Dónal and Juno