Whom You Know: Take a Trip to Ireland: County Cork: West Cork Literary Festival

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Take a Trip to Ireland: County Cork: West Cork Literary Festival

08 - 14 July 2012
Venue: Bantry

Sir Michael Parkinson, Anita Shreve, Paul Muldoon and Anita Desai are just some of the headliners for the 2012 West Cork Literary Festival. For this year’s festival, supported by RTÉ Radio 1, Artistic Director, Denyse Woods, has also decided to celebrate our maritime heritage - from Brendan the Navigator to Wolfe Tone, from longboats, and the French non-invasion, to the forthcoming visit of the Atlantic Challenge to Bantry with The Bantry Bay Series, which will include readings and talks based on all sorts of matters nautical, as well as a reading on an Irish Navy vessel.

Another theme this year is Writers in Peril so it is apt that the first evening’s event is an interview with journalist and broadcaster John McCarthy, who was kidnapped and held for five and a half years on his on his first foreign assignment to Beirut in 1986. Throughout the week, in association with Amnesty International and the students of Coláiste Pobail Bheanntrai, the festival honours those who risk their lives in order to write, report, blog and tweet for the benefit and enlightenment of us all.

One of the innovations in the 2012 festival is Writer Idol, a fun event which affords aspiring writers the opportunity to submit their work for an on-the-spot assessment by a high-powered panel, featuring Anita Shreve, Marianne Gunne-O’Connor and Suzanne Babaneau, Senior Consulting Editor with Simon & Schuster.

Other highlights of this annual festival, which has attracted writers with international reputations to the beautiful West Cork town of Bantry will include Dava Sobel; Husband-and-wife crime writing team, Edward Marston and Judith Cutler; Noo Saro-Wiwa will speak about her irreverent travel guide to Nigeria, “The Transwonderland Amusement Park”; a reading by Gerald Dawe and invited guests to celebrate the publication by of his Selected Poems, and a special night of readings with Romesh Gunesekera and Kevin Barry, who has just been awarded the £30,000 Sunday Times short story prize. There will also be late-night readings in Bantry Courthouse with authors Liam Ó Muirthile and Michael Clifford as well as thriller duo, Nicci French, and, for a change of pace, Afternoon Tea with Jane Urquhart.

As usual, the festival is hosting a series of diverse workshops, from Flash Fiction to how to write a Comic Novel, Songwriting from Jamie Lawson, poetry with Dermot Healy, Fiction and Novel Writing with Glenn Patterson and Claire Kilroy, Journalism with Lorna Siggins and the Short Story with Tessa Hadley.

The Children’s Festival at West Cork has always been strong with readings, workshops and special events and this year organisers are very proud to present, Anne Fine, a distinguished writer for both adults and children whose novel “Madame Doubtfire” was transformed into a Hollywood hit.

http://www.discoverireland.ie/whats-on/west-cork-literary-festival/14889

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