
So many incredible books by Irish authors and authors living in Ireland were released this year, without the usual fanfare of festivals and launches. We’re delighted to celebrate a small selection of these authors here and we’ve invited twenty-four writers to submit a short video reading from their new books.
Visit our Advent Calendar here and join us each day from 1st to 24th December 2020 to unlock a new reading.
1 - Paddy Bushe
Welcome to Day 1 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Paddy Bushe. Born in Dublin in 1948, Paddy Bushe lives in Kerry and is...
Read More2 - Caoilinn Hughes
Welcome to Day 2 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Caoilinn Hughes. Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish writer whose novel The Wild Laughter has...
Read More3 - Alan McMonagle
Welcome to Day 3 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Alan McMonagle. Alan McMonagle lives in Galway. In 2015, he signed a two-book deal with...
Read More4 - Frances Macken
Welcome to Day 4 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Frances Macken. Frances Macken is from Claremorris, County Mayo. She completed a Masters in...
Read More5 - Bebe Ashley
Welcome to Day 5 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Bebe Ashley. Bebe Ashley lives in Belfast. Her debut poetry collection, Gold Light Shining,...
Read More6 - Seán Hewitt
Welcome to Day 6 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Seán Hewitt. Seán Hewitt was born in 1990. He previously held a postdoctoral position...
Read More7 - Gráinne Murphy
Welcome to Day 7 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Gráinne Murphy. Gráinne Murphy is a Cork-based writer, reader and coffee-drinker. She writes long...
Read More8 - Marianne Lee
Welcome to Day 8 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Marianne Lee. Marianne Lee grew up in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, in the heart of...
Read More9 - Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry is co-editor of Winter Papers as well as being the author of three novels and three short story collections. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the...
Read More10 - Helena Close
Welcome to Day 10 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Helena Close. Limerick City native Helena Close has been writing full-time for 20 years....
Read More11 - Stephen Sexton
Welcome to Day 11 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Stephen Sexton. Stephen Sexton’s first book, If All the World and Love Were Young...
Read More12 - Michelle Gallen
Welcome to Day 12 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Michelle Gallen. Michelle Gallen was born in Tyrone in the 1970s and grew up...
Read More13 - Cauvery Madhavan
Welcome to Day 13 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Cauvery Madhavan. Cauvery Madhavan was born in India and moved to Ireland thirty-three years...
Read More14 - Oein DeBhairduin
Welcome to Day 14 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Oein DeBhairduin. Oein DeBhairduin is a creative soul with a passion for poetry, folk...
Read More15 - Enda Wyley
Welcome to Day 15 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Enda Wyley. Enda Wyley is poet and children’s author. She was born in Dún...
Read More16 - Patrick Freyne
Welcome to Day 16 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Patrick Freyne. Patrick Freyne spent most of his twenties trying to be a rock...
Read More17 - Alice Lyons
Welcome to Day 17 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Alice Lyons. Alice Lyons is a writer whose work embraces the visual arts. Author...
Read More18 - Colin Barrett
Welcome to Day 18 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Colin Barrett. Colin Barrett is the author of Young Skins, a collection of short...
Read More19 - Niamh Campbell
Welcome to Day 19 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Niamh Campbell. Niamh Campbell’s short fiction and essays have appeared in The Dublin Review,...
Read More20 - Tim MacGabhann
Welcome to Day 20 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Tim MacGabhann. Tim MacGabhann is the author of Call Him Mine and How To...
Read More21 - Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi
Welcome to Day 21 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi. Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi is a Nigerian-Irish writer, editor, performer and arts-facilitator. Her work...
Read More22 - John Connell
Welcome to Day 22 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is John Connell. John Connell’s work has been published in Granta’s ‘New Irish Writing’ issue. His...
Read More23 - Sarah Crossan
Welcome to Day 23 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Sarah Crossan. Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London and New York, and now...
Read More24 - Eoin Colfer
Welcome to Day 24 of our West Cork Literary Festival Advent Calendar. Our author today is Eoin Colfer. Eoin Colfer is the New York Times best-selling author of eight previous...
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