The Irish Writers' Centre is hosting an information day on publishing. The day-long seminar will feature talks given by author, agent and tv producer at Prizeman & Kinsella Yvonne Kinsella, senior editor with Penguin Ireland Patricia Deevy, author and journalist Ed O' Loughlin, publisher, publishing consultant and writer Eoin Purcell and Head of Book Purchasing at Easons Maria Dickenson.

The day will start at 11.00am with registration and run until 4.30pm. Tickets are €60 (€50 for Members) and can be booked by paying online or calling the Centre.

Ed O’Loughlin was born in Toronto and raised in Ireland. He reported from Africa for the Irish Times and other papers, and was Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne. His first novel, Not Untrue and Not Unkind, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009. His second, Toploader, was published in April 2011.

Eoin is a publisher (digital and print), a publishing consultant and a publishing strategist. He also writes commentary and analysis on the Irish and international publishing industry. Eoin lives and works in my home city of Dublin, Ireland. He publishes Irish Publishing News and The Irish Story and runs the publisher and author consultancy, Green Lamp Media.
In the past he has worked as Commissioning Editor with Mercier Press, one of Ireland's oldest independent publishers, and at Nonsuch Ireland (now The History Press Ireland) joining it as a graduate recruit and starting (with two other graduates) the Irish operation. Eoin writes regularly for his own website, as well as occasional blog posts and columns on the Irish book trade for The Bookseller magazine and in other places.