From The Well Short Story Launch

Time and date

Friday 19 July 2024

Time

1:00 pm

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From the Well is the annual short story competition organised by Cork County Library and Arts Service. Twenty stories are shortlisted by Sasha de Buyl for publication in the 2024 From the Well anthology.

The winner of the competition, Kate Lawlor, and two of the shortlisted writers, Lauren O'Donovan and Siobhan Dempsey, will read their stories in this event hosted by Sasha de Buyl.

Admission: Free

Writers

Kate Lawlor

Kate Lawlor is a writer from Dublin. In 2022, she was a recipient of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Student award and a literature bursary award from the Arts Council....

Siobhan Dempsey

Siobhan Dempsey is not a writer, she is a play therapist, but therapy is fundamentally about stories. She joined a writer’s group over covid to preserve her sanity, which worked...

Lauren O'Donovan

Lauren O’Donovan is an Irish writer. In 2023, she won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, the Cúirt New Writing Prize, and was runner-up for Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition...

Sasha de Buyl

Sasha de Buyl is a writer and programmer from Cork. They are currently Literature and Ideas Programmer at International Literature Festival Dublin and in 2023 acted as Guest Curator for...