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WORDSTOCK 2013

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WORDSTOCK 2013 – The festival schedule is now live http://www.wordstockfestival.com/festival-schedule/ Two hundred and thirty writers, and I’m one of them! I’m doing a writing class on Sex and the Serious Novel And I’m appearing on stage with Chelsea Cain – going to be seriously good fun! Check it out here: http://chelseacain.com/events/wordstock-readingtalkqa  

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HAY TRANSCRIPT

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  “The novel certainly came out of the optimism of the sixties and seventies, the feeling that the world might really be about to change, that anything was possible, that the old models of social, political, cultural life could be thrown out and utterly re-imagined; that there would be a series of concentric revolutions that would transform relations of class, …

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The Forge at Gort Festival Easter 2013

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They know how to do book festivals in the west of Ireland and Guinness and hot toddies and music in the bars at night… Mark Brady of Cillian Press (UK) – left – in expressive mode introducing Chris Keil (right) in a discussion and reading from ‘Flirting at the Funeral,’ chaired by poet Patrick Stack (centre) at The Forge at …