Our 2025 Programme

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11 – 18 July 2025

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Our 2025 Programme

Glucksman: The Art Library comes to WCLF

Letter Café

Come Sit Awhile: Dementia-friendly Stories and Memories

Doire Press: Claire Hennessy & Jennifer Horgan

Spot the Translation with Katy Derbyshire

Opening Reception: West Cork Literary Festival

Salena Godden: With Love, Grief and Fury

Alan Hollinghurst: Our Evenings

Dani Robertson: All Through the Night

Cauvery Madhavan: The Inheritance

Paul Delaney: Jenny Peckles Lays Eggs With Speckles

Heather Clark: The Scrapbook

Wake of the Whale: Alice Kinsella, Daniel Wade & Patrick Dexter

Bantry Historical Walking Tour

Zainab Boladale: Braids Take A Day

Society of Young Publishers Ireland Information Session

Stories from Sweden: Lina Scheynius and Saskia Vogel

Ferdia Lennon & Colin Walsh

Richard E. Grant: A Pocketful of Happiness

Yoga on the Lawn

Maria Barnas & Keith Payne

Irish Writers Centre: An Island of Many Nations

Leona Forde: The Wonderful World of Milly McCarthy

John Creedon: This Boy’s Heart

W/w: A Performance by Sarah Long

Children’s Books Ireland: The Craft of Writing for Children and Teenagers

Somerville and Ross: Claire Connolly

Gallery Goes to WCLF: Tom French, Vona Groarke & Aifric Mac Aodha

Children’s Authors and Illustrators Meet-Up hosted by Sarah Webb

Mona Arshi & Oluwaseun Olayiwola

Caoilinn Hughes & Claire Kilroy

Katie Goh: Foreign Fruit, A Personal History of the Orange

Kel Menton: A Fix of Light

Workshop: Nature Writing For Times Like These with Polly Atkin

Patricia Forde: Letters to a Monster

Irish Writers Centre: Zine Workshop with Annie Mar

Writer in Residence: Library Writing Groups

Stories from Sweden: Balsam Karam: The Singularity

Performance Is A Noun: Performance Techniques for Writers and Beyond with Alice Barry

Seán Farrell & Quynh Tran

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Neil Jordan: Amnesiac

Will Sliney

Anna Fitzgerald: Girl in the Making

The Doomsday Club: Kevin Moran

New Dutch Writing: Valentijn Hoogenkamp & Michele Hutchison

The Lived Experience of Ireland’s Coast: Perspectives From The Coastal Atlas of Ireland – CUP at 100

Irish Writers Centre: Creative Writing Seminar with Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

Irish Writers Centre: The Word on the Street

Open Mic Matinee

Sarah Maria Griffin & Rose Keating

Carol Drinkwater: One Summer in Provence

Workshop: Novel Writing with Paul McVeigh

Workshop: Poetry with Ruth Padel

Workshop: The Short Story with Ross Raisin

Workshop: Travel Writing: The Sea with Helen Scales

Workshop: Writing Places with Sarah Moss

Katherine May: Enchantment

Chloe Michelle Howarth: Sunburn

Story Detectives with E.R. Murray

Small Country, Big Continent: Translating Gaël Faye’s Burundi and Rwanda​

Maurice J Casey & Michel Krielaars: Moscow in the Time of Stalin

Irish Writers Centre: Out on the Page

Helen Scales: What The Wild Sea Can Be

Launch of the 2025 Fish Anthology

Eimear McBride: The City Changes Its Face

Polly Atkin: The Company of Owls

Arts For Health: West Cork with E.R. Murray

Annette Skade: Holdfast

Tiffany Murray: My Family and Other Rock Stars

The World Between the Rain with Susan Cahill

Flip Through Flanders: Angelo Tijssens: The Edges

Seán Ronayne: Nature Boy

Paul McVeigh & Ross Raisin

Picador Presents: Louise Hegarty, Sarah Moss & Gráinne O’Hare

Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O’Connor Means to Us

Barbara Leahy: Rembrandt’s Promise

Patrick Holloway: The Language of Remembering

The President Book Series: Peter Donnelly

Small Country, Big Continent: Translating Gaël Faye’s Burundi and Rwanda