Annie Deppe has published two collections of poetry,Sitting in the Sky and Wren Cantata. She has received grants from the Irish Arts Council and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Her work has been included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2004, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, The Shop, and many other journals.
She co-
Saturday 10 July 8pm
TONY CURTIS
Tony Curtis was born in Dublin in 1955. Author of many collections of poetry, his most recent is The Well in the Rain: New and Selected Poems (Arc Publications, 2006). He was awarded the National Poetry Prize in 1993. He now lives in North County Dublin, and is a member of Aosdána.
Monday 12 July 8pm
CLAIRE KEEGAN
Claire Keegan was born in Wexford in 1968. Her highly acclaimed story collections are Antarctica and Walk the Blue Fields. Her awards include The Francis MacManus Award; The William Trevor Prize; the Olive Cook Award; the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year; and the Rooney Prize for Literature.
A member of Aosdána, she lives in Co Wexford.
Tuesday 13 July 7:30 pm
STONECOAST SAMPLER: Readings by Master's students on the Stonecoast in Ireland programme.
Friday 23 July 6 pm
PETER CUNNINGHAM
A former accountant who went on to become both a literary novelist and a thriller writer under various pseudonyms, Peter has turned his attention to the excesses of the Celtic Tiger years in his latest novel, Capital Sins (New Island €14.99).
‘Paced to read like Grisham but written with enough literary flair to lift it far beyond the usual thriller’ Irish Independent.
His novels include Who Trespass Against Us, the Monument trilogy: Tapes of the River Delta Consequences of the Heart and Love in One Edition, Taoiseach and The Sea and The Silence
