Bray Literary Festival has a varied programme
BRAY Literary Festival is going ahead this month, albeit mostly digitally.
One live event will take place in collaboration with One City One Book: Christine Dwyer Hickey and Billy O’Callaghan in conversation with Dermot Bolger, which is happening in the Mermaid Arts Centre on Thursday, September 17.
Other highlights of this year’s festival, which will be broadcast on the Bray Literary Festival’s YouTube channel from September 25 to 27, include: Roddy Doyle and Paul Howard (aka Ross O’Carroll Kelly) in a Northside/Southside face-off; discussions and readings from ‘Her Other Language’ - Northern Irish Women Writers Address Domestic Violence and Abuse published by feminist press Arlen House; poetry reading - Singing in the Wild Dark with Eleanor
Hooker, Jessica Traynor and Leanne Quinn, while festival founder and director Tanya Farrelly will be talking forgery, murder and the Hollywood Walk of Fame with authors Alan McMonagle, Neil Hegarty and Henrietta McKervey.
The festival Culture Night event, which will be live-streamed on Facebook, is: Four Poets Walk into a Bar featuring poets Anne Tannam, Mark Ward, Fiona Bolger and Grace Wilentz and musician BeRn.
There will also be readings from the shortlisted writers in the competition and some young writers from Fighting Words, Glencree.
Writing workshops will also take place over Zoom on Saturday and Sunday, September 19 and 20.
Go to Brayliteraryfestival.com to sign up.