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The Limerick Writers’ Centre
Presents
The Sept 2017 ‘On the Nail’ Literary Gathering
Tues 5th Sept at Chez le Fab, Arthur’s Quay park, Limerick. Start 8pm

This month our guests are writers Neil Donnelly and Linda Louise Galvin.

Neil Donnelly was born in Tullamore, Co Offaly. He is a playwright, poet, screenwriter and writer for radio. His screenplays include Upstarts, The Silver Dollar Boys, The Duty Master. He was a Harvey's Award winner in 1982, writer-in-residence for Mayo County Council in 1993, and writer-in-association at the Abbey Theatre in 1994. Tullamore Train his debut poetry collection was published in 2011. His documentary on the life of Aidan Higgins 'Where Would You Like the Bullet?' is in progress. He is a member of Aosdana.

Linda Louise Galvin is from Limerick. She began writing seven years ago by writing song lyrics,
eventually focusing mainly on poetry. Her work straddles a diverse range of taboo subjects and humour. She was one of the poets featured in the Sextet 2 Anthology from Revival Press in 2016. She was also the winner of the Mid-West Drugs and Alcohol Forum awareness poetry competition and subsequently featured in their Voices from the Cave anthology.


Everyone is invited to take part in the open-mic after the main event, poets, storytellers, musicians and writers. Even if you don't write you are welcome to bring something along to read. The night begins at 8.00pm and admission is free. So join us on the night and make this event something special.
NOTE: Our special authors book table will again be in operation, so if you want your book, CD's etc publicised make sure you are represented on the table. Contact Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 to make arrangements.


The Limerick Writers' Centre is currently unfunded and depends for revenue from sales of books and donations.



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