Seven Towers Christmas in Dublin Series welcomes Oran Ryan and Quincy R Lehr

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday December 04, 2007 15:46 by Sarah Lundberg - Seven Towers sarah at seventowers dot ie 0872283351

Oran Ryan and Quincy R Lehr will be reading in Chapters of Parnell St, Dublin 1 at 1pm on Friday 21st December.

Dublin novelist, playwright and poet Oran Ryan and Oklahoma born, Galway based poet Quincy R Lehr will read in Chapters of Parnell St at 1pm Friday 21st December.

Oran's novels The Death of Finn and Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger are published by Seven Towers. Quincy R Lehr's collection The Perfect Joke will be published by Seven Towers in 2008.

This evening is part of Seven Towers’ on going commitment to perform quality works of literature in public places.

It is also to draw people’s attention to the quality literature by Irish publisher available on the market this Christmas, a time when small Irish publishing houses find it difficult to compete with the advertising campaigns of their international counterparts. The Christmas Reading Series draw attention to the Irish published books, which the publishers need to sell to enable them to continue publishing quality literature.

The reading is also part of Seven Towers fundraising campaign for The Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland. 77c from each book, CD and ticket sold will be donated to the Association.

Seven Towers is a creative arts agency that focuses on new artists from any genre. It is also a small publisher and an independent record label.