Poet Afric McGlinchey to offer creative writing workshop at Allingham Festival

Poet and memoirist Afric McGlinchey will lead an immersive creative writing workshop at the 2025 Allingham Festival on “Setting and Weather as Metaphor”.

The two-hour workshop for 15 participants will be held from 9:30 to 11:30 am in Kilbarron House, Ballyshannon on Saturday morning, November 8.

An Irish-born poet, freelance book editor and mentor for the Munster Literature Centre, Afric McGlinchey spent her formative years and early childhood in Zambia and Zimbabwe. She has published poetry collections including The Lucky Star of Hidden Things and Ghost of the Fisher Cat, and a memoir titled Tied to the Wind. 

Afric McGlinchey will launch her new collection titled À la Belle Étoile at the Literary Lunch, also on 8 Nov 2025. Tickets for the Creative Writing Workshop on “Setting and Weather as Metaphor” are available through the Allingham Website