We have writing and poetry events for all ages at Allingham 2016.
Here at the Allingham Festival HQ, we are very much looking forward to the public interview with Anne Enright, Man Booker prize winner and the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Anne will be interviewed by RTÉ's Sinéad Gleeson in Dorrian's Imperial Hotel on Saturday, Nov. 5th, at 3.30pm. Tickets are €10 - you can book your tickets now online, or pay at the door.
The Interview: According to Sinéad Gleeson, “...the discussion with Anne Enright will focus on The Green Road, her Laureateship, her previous novels (The Forgotten Waltz, The Gathering), her short stories, and the current state of Irish writing. We'll have plenty to talk about.”
Anne Enright has published novels, short stories, essays and non-fiction. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her novel 'The Gathering' won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, and her novel 'The Green Road' was nominated for the Booker in 2015. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year. Her writing explores themes such as family relationships, love and sex, Ireland's difficult past and its modern zeitgeist.
Sinéad Gleeson is a writer, editor, freelance broadcaster and journalist. She currently presents The Book Show on RTE Radio One and was a reporter on the RTE Television arts show, The Works. She reviews books and writes arts features and interviews for The Irish Times, and is a regular critic on RTE Radio One’s Arena. Sinéad recently published 'The Glass Shore', an anthology of writing by women from the north of Ireland. Sinéad will read from this anthology as part of the Wild Atlantic Writers event in Nirvana Restaurant on Saturday.
Why not avail of our Limited Discounted Ticket Offer? This gives you admission to the Afric Mc Glinchey Poetry Workshop, the Literary Lunch in Nirvana, the Anne Enright interview and the Allingham Concert. There is only a small number of these tickets left.
We have plenty to keep the wee folk in your life busy next weekend - writing and art workshops in Coláiste Cholmcille, and craft workshops based around Local Hands. Booking advisable.
Congratulations to the winners of the Allingham 2016 Flash Fiction competition, and well done to all who took part.
First Place
'Wich' – Carly Holmes
Second Place
'From Where I Was' – Una Mannion
Third Place
'Collecting Stones' – Patrick Holloway
Commended
'A Rush of Indignation' – Kathryn Burke
'Eating Letters' – Clodagh O'Brien
'The Queen's Nose' – Patrick Holloway
'Wafer-thin' – Clodagh O'Brien
Shortlist
'Bridezilla' – Patrick Talbot
'Feather' – Clodagh O'Brien
'Hello Dolly' – Kathryn Burke
'Knocking on My Father's Door' – Patrick Holloway
'The Hatchet' – Rosita Sweetman
'The Sacrifice' – Rose Malone
'To Thee We Send Up Our Sighs' – Niamh MacCabe
'Travelling Light' – Patricia Bender
12 FINALISTS IN ALLINGHAM 2016 SONGWRITING CONTEST
The 12 finalists who will compete for the prize of €1000 in the Live Final of the Allingham 2016 Songwriting Contest on Friday Nov. 4th at 10pm in Dicey Reilly's are (in no particular order):
Alan Kavanagh - To Yourself Please Always Be True
Jessie Solange Whitehead - Try
Brigid O'Neill - Don't Make Me Go To Town
Tara Gi - Trouble
Luke Devaney - Selfish Love
Dee Brady - Ash & Embers
Amy O'Hara - Alone
Dickon Whitehead - Better Fingers
Without Willow - The Heatherfield
Avi Mc Gourty - Just Like Snow
Amy Meehan - Tapaidh an Deis
Sunset Ships - Song for Brothers
Over 50 songs were entered into the competition, and while the standard was very high, only a few can proceed to the Live Final in Dicey's on Friday Nov. 4th.
The event is open to the public and promises to be an evening of top-quality music covering a range of styles as all 12 songs will be performed live in front of judges Charlie Mc Gettigan, Ian Smith and Niamh Currid, with John Meehan as MC.
Tickets are €5 on the door.