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Workshops Booking Now Open
We are delighted to announce the details of a selection of the workshops at the 2020 West Cork Literary Festival. Paul Muldoon, Cynan Jones, Claire Nelson, Paul McVeigh, Jane Casey, Rachel Andrews, E.R Murray and Dave Lordan are among those coming to Bantry to tutor workshops in Beginning Poetry; Short Story; Travel Writing; Novel Writing; Crime Writing; Life-Writing; Teenage Writers and other subjects.
#SixDaysOfChristmas Recap
We are delighted to announce that Roxane Gay, Paul Muldoon, Jung Chang, the Ireland Professor of Poetry Frank Ormsby, Eimear McBride and Leslie Jamison will be among those appearing at the 2020 West Cork Literary Festival.
#SixDaysOfChristmas - Day 6
Here's our last programme announcement before Christmas. We're delighted that Ireland Chair of Poetry Frank Ormsby will be reading from his latest collection The Rain Barrel at #WCLF2020.
#SixDaysOfChristmas - Day 5
It's #DayFive of our #SixDaysOfChristmas announcements and it's a really exciting one! Roxane Gay is coming to West Cork Literary Festival in July and we can't wait.
#SixDaysOfChristmas - Day 4
We've read an advance copy of Eimear McBride's new novel Strange Hotel and we're so excited that she's coming back to West Cork this summer to tell us all about it.
