Chapters and Verse Lunchtime Reading

dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday September 29, 2009 16:56 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, Dublin, 1.15pm 7th October

With Eileen Keane and Bernie O'Reilly

Bernie O’Reilly
has read at the Poetry Ireland Introductions series, Poets Anon, Peanut Club and the Last Wednesday Series Reading and Open Mic. She has taken part in workshops with Tony Curtis, Jean O' Brien, Gerard Dawe, Jean Valentine, Jamie McKendrick and her work has been published in in Poetry Ireland Review and Poetry Now( England)

Eileen Keane’s
first short story won the Cecil Day Lewis fiction prize in 2004and in 2007 her short story Tryst was one of 14 chosen through a competition on Seoige and O’Shea on RTE for an anthology called Do the Write Thing (Poolbeg Press). Also in 2007 she won first prize in the humorous essay competition at Listowel. In 2008, her story The Cave was published in Census, the First Seven Towers Anthology. She is a visual artist and a founder member of the Leinster Printmaking Studio at Clane, Co Kildare and is a member of the Clane Writer’s Group and has just completed her first novel.

€1 from every copy of Census, The First Seven Towers Anthology book sold as will be donated to AWARE.