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Winter Miscellany will be launched by author Conal Creedon at the TUS Campus Clonmel this Monday December 12 at 7.30pm
Like many good ideas, publishing a winter anthology was stimulated by strong caffeine, as two writer friends shared a coffee in late August.
Maura Barrett from Grangemockler and Brian Clancy from Cloneen have traversed the difficulties of that oft time solitary vocation.
They also know that sometimes the best way to get work out there is to take a DIY approach.
The NUIG Kilkenny writing programme graduates turned to a trusted mentor in John McKenna, who is originally from Kildare and lives in Carlow, and who eventually acted as editor to Winter Miscellany, a fine new collection of short stories and poetry, featuring contributions from many Tipperary writers.
They reached out to others from the Tipperary and Kilkenny region and in addition to their own work, fiction and poetry from Paul Maher from Annacarty, Pat Griffin from Kilkenny, Jasper Murphy from Fethard and Paul Keating from Clonmel complete the line-up for this collection.
The stories and poems are all winter-themed, and they are eclectic in their variety and narrative approaches.
There is adventure on every page, as we witness the entire spectrum of human emotions and experience.
The characters get into all manner of scrapes. One swings for an ex with a hurley, one witnesses his own funeral and another navigates the shady streets of 1980s Moscow.
These deftly-crafted stories are complemented by haunting winter-themed artwork by the students of CTI in Clonmel.
With glowing reviews from authors Donal Ryan and Conal Creedon, the Southeast Scribes will launch the book in the TUS Campus Clonmel this Monday December 12 at 7.30pm.
The collection will be launched in Clonmel by the critically-acclaimed novelist, playwright and documentary filmmaker Conal Creedon.
There will be further launches in Thurles and Kilkenny at later dates. This edition is the first of four that will align with each season of the year.
Southeast Scribes are on Facebook. Books can be purchased pre-launch online via a PayPal account to southeastscribes@gmail.com
Following the Clonmel launch, the book will be available in most bookstores in Clonmel, Thurles and Kilkenny, in addition to the online option.
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