Write By the Sea KQ Literary Festival

2024 festival runs 27-29 September. Programme will be announced later this summer! Get on the mailing list to find out first!

[Claire Keegan @CKeeganFiction]

Claire is pleased to announce a new course on fiction writing, which will be held over two half-days in Wexford Town in September 2025.

If you’d like to attend, please send an email to [email protected] requesting a place.

[Daragh @DaraghFleming]

IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!!

[Dave Redfearn @redfearndave]

Attention people of LEEDS! We are going on the road with our new @ParachuteTester songs, sights and sounds! See you in Nov? @HPBCLeeds 23rd. Tickets on sale 9am tomorrow from @seetickets #leeds #livemusic #theparachutetesters

[Irish Writers Centre @IrishWritersCtr]

It’s an exciting day at the Irish Writers Centre!

Our twelve #NovelFair winners are pitching their novels to top publishers and agents in our Dublin headquarters.

[Write By the Sea KQ Literary Festival @write_KQ]

Pick yourself up a copy and check out the winning pieces from our 2024 Writing Competition! (Plus, a whole load more 😀)

[The Waxed Lemon 🍋 @TheWaxedLemon]

Waxed Lemon Issue 8 retails at The Book Centre, Waterford and online at https://t.co/oNz8Uk3JQc

[Casey King @letstalkcrime]

Delighted to be appointed Cork Co Council's Reader in Residence. The brief merges my skills in writing, facilitating, coaching, mindfulness, as well as my love of reading. It's an honour to be part of a programme that connects all ages to creativity in a calm and safe environment

[Amanda O'Callaghan @ocallaghanac]

Thrilled to see my winning flash fiction, 'After My Father', published in this beautiful issue of The Waxed Lemon in Ireland. Thank you again, @write_KQ and @TheWaxedLemon

[Write By the Sea KQ Literary Festival @write_KQ]

@CaoilinnHughes @parisreview @BillClegg_ Congratulations! What a gorgeous way to end the year 😍

[Write By the Sea KQ Literary Festival @write_KQ]

@Nigella_Lawson @CharlotteMende1 @EttoMerrionRow Second Etto. Or Terra Madre on the quays, or the Vintage Kitchen.

[James Conor Patterson @JCPattz]

decided that this week’s column for @RTE_Culture was going to be all about ireland’s literary journal infrastructure. big props to @stingingfly @bansheelit @ThePigsBack1 @tolkajournal & others for their continued support of the arts here!

https://t.co/bGH0duVxaV

[The Waxed Lemon 🍋 @TheWaxedLemon]

**ISSUE 8 COVER REVEAL** We are excited to reveal this cover by Cork-based Brazilian artist, Silvio Severino. Issue 8 will be launched as part of Waterford Writers Weekend on Sunday 27th Oct at 11am in the Waterford Gallery of Art @TheWaterfordGOA @WaterfordWrite1 @WaterfordArts

[WaterfordWriterswknd @Wwritersweekend]

There is a limited number of free seats available on the door for our short story event, ‘Outlasting’ with Sylvia Cullen in the Old Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan this evening.

Doors open at 6.45pm.

[Write By the Sea KQ Literary Festival @write_KQ]

@JanCarson7280 Same same!

[Write By the Sea KQ Literary Festival @write_KQ]

@DublinCityofLit @JackieLynam @TheBookerPrizes @gauz @Terribleman @DublinLitAward @wexlibraries @wexfordcoco @Wexford_People @MumblinDeafRo Absolutely!

[Write By the Sea KQ Literary Festival @write_KQ]

This will be a fantastic night out :)

[The Waxed Lemon 🍋 @TheWaxedLemon]

Poetry Lounge is happening this Saturday 14th Sept in Waterford 🙌

[Write By the Sea KQ Literary Festival @write_KQ]

@michaelmagee__ @IrishTimes @LaureateFiction Congratulations, Michael!

[The Waxed Lemon 🍋 @TheWaxedLemon]

COVER ART WANTED!!

The Waxed Lemon is looking for cover art for its upcoming eighth issue. Send your art to [email protected] BEFORE SEPT 15th.

[The Laureate for Irish Fiction @LaureateFiction]

"If there was ever a crucial book for our current times," The Guardian has written, "it’s #PaulLynch’s Prophet Song."

This September, the Laureate's #ArtofReading pick is the Booker Prize-winning #ProphetSong!

So, pick up a copy and join us in reading this powerful novel!