Join us for a summer Sunday afternoon of readings by author Ferdia Mac Anna, novelist Sheila Killian, and Conor Clohessy of the AdNibs Collective.
Ferdia Mac Anna will read from Cartoon City described as “a classic, urban noir narrative” delivering crime, passion and surreal humour at breakneck pace. In Something Bigger, Sheila Killian writes the true story, set in America’s deep South, of an Irishman who fought against prejudice and hate that strongly resonates today. The Decades is a themed short story collection featuring six writers from around Ireland. In a dramatic and deftly wrought tale, Conor Clohessy of AdNibs presents a stark dystopia.
Attendance is free, but booking is essential.
ABOUT THE READERS
FERDIA MAC ANNA started out in music, fronting punk-era legends Rocky De Valera and the Gravediggers, and later The Rhythm Kings. His first novel, The Last of the High Kings , was published by Penguin, and made into a film with Gabriel Byrne and Jared Leto. He wrote the novel The Ship Inspector and a memoir, The Rocky Years . He has written and directed two films and lectured broadly in screenwriting and television production. He is a sought after film script and fiction writing coach.
SHEILA KILLIAN is an award-winning author and teacher. Her short stories have been variously long-listed and short-listed in competitions in Ireland and the UK. She has published two non-fiction books on the topic of business sustainability. This is the second, European edition of her debut novel, originally published in the United States.
CONOR CLOHESSY of the AdNibs Collective is a writer and playwright, who joins Sharon Guard ( Assembling Ailish ), Máirín Stronge, Seán Coffey, Gio and Sarah Lou Ryan as one of the authors of The Decades . The group emerged from the graduate cohort of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.