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| Saturday, 8 March: 10:30am to 4:30pm |
The Irish Writers' Centre is hosting a special day publishing day focusing on Poetry and Fiction. The day is aimed at emerging, unpublished writers who are keen to know the inside track on publishing and how publishers select work.
10.00–10.30 Registration
10.30–11.20 Michael McLoughlin, Managing Director of Penguin Ireland, will give his insights on fiction publishing
11.20–12.10 Sallyanne Sweeney, a Director at Mulcahy Associates Literary Agents in London will share her experience and knowledge of the publishing industry.
12.10–12.20 Quick tea/coffee break
12.20–1.10 Maureen Kennelly, Director of Poetry Ireland; Paul Lenehan, Publications Officer of Poetry Ireland Review; and Peter Fallon of The Gallery Press will cover a number of topics relating to poetry publishing.
1.10–2.10 Lunch
2.10–4.15 Anthony Glavin, author, editor and judge for Novel Fair 2014, will moderate and contribute to a panel of 6 published authors working in a range of forms and genres including: Mia Gallagher, Sean Hardie, Liz McManus, Noel Monahan, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and William Wall.
All speakers will allow a short amount of time for Q&A. |
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Michael McLoughlin |
| Michael McLoughlin Managing Director of Penguin Ireland. He is also Acting President of Publishing Ireland, the representative body for publishers in Ireland. |
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Sallyanne Sweeney |
Sallyanne Sweeney grew up in Dublin and studied English at Trinity College before completing an MPhil in American Literature at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating she joined Watson, Little Ltd, becoming a Literary Agent in 2008 and a Director of the company in 2011. She joined Mulcahy Associates in August 2013 and is building her list of fiction and non-fiction authors for children and adults, as well as a small number of picture book illustrators. Passionate about working with debut authors, her fiction tastes are wide-ranging, from the literary to the very commercial, but she is particularly looking for voice-driven narratives with a strong hook. In non-fiction, she is interested in memoirs and food writing. Sallyanne regularly attends writing festivals and events and is a judge for the 2014 Undiscovered Voices Award, run by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. |
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Maureen Kennelly |
Maureen Kennelly is the current Director of Poetry Ireland. She was Primary Curator with the Mountains to Sea DLR Book Festival for 2012 and 2013, Programme Director of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway for 2009 and 2010 and curator of the All Ireland Performing Arts Conferences held in Belfast and in Derry for the past two years. She was previously director of Kilkenny Arts Festival, artistic director of the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, and she has also worked with Fishamble New Writing Theatre Company, Druid Theatre Company, The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Irish Youth Choir. In March 2011, she was creative producer of DublinSwell, staged at the Convention Centre, Dublin as the first major celebration of the UNESCO City of Literature designation. She is a member of the boards of Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Barabbas Theatre Company and The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick-on-Shannon. |
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Peter Fallon |
Peter Fallon is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where he has taught as Writer Fellow. An prize-winning and accomplished poet in his own right, he is also the founder of The Gallery Press, Ireland's leading literary publishing company. Peter was the inaugural Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University and was recently appointed Adjunct Professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin. He was Burns Library Visiting Scholar (2012-2013) at Boston College. He is also a member of Aosdána. |
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Anthony Glavin |
Boston-Irish, Anthony Glavin first came to Ireland in 1974 where he lived for many years in Donegal before moving to Dublin. A former editor of 'New Irish Writing' in The Irish Press, his short stories have been widely published in Ireland, England and America. They have appeared in such anthologies as Best Irish Short Stories and Phoenix Irish Short Stories 1997. His first collection, One for Sorrow, and debut novel, Nighthawk Alley, both met with critical acclaim. Another one of his books, The Draughtsman and the Unicorn, was produced by New Island.
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