CONNEMARA BASED publishing company, Doire Press, will mark its 10th birthday with a cross-border/cross-genre reading and panel discussion as part of this weekend's Dublin Book Festival.
The online event will take place on Sunday November 29 from 7pm to 8pm, and feature the poets Linda McKenna, Aoife Reilly, and Dimitra Xidous, and short-story writers Rosemary Jenkinson and John O’Donnell.
Doire Press was founded by Lisa Frank and John Walsh in 2010. Its books have won the Edge Hill Readers’ Prize and the Shine/Strong Poetry Prize, and have been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the EU Prize for Literature, and the Bord Gais Short Story of the Year Award.
The writers
Belfast's Rosemary Jenkinson is the author of such short story collections as Contemporary Problems Nos. 53 & 54 (Lagan Press ), Aphrodite’s Kiss (Whittrick Press ) and Catholic Boy (Doire Press ), which was shortlisted for the EU Prize for Literature.
Downpatrick based Linda McKenna is the winner of the 2018 Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing and the 2018 Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition.
Dimitra Xidous is a poet and writer living and working in Ireland since 2011. Keeping Bees, her debut poetry collection, was published by Doire Press in 2014. Her second poetry collection will be published by Doire Press in 2021.
Dublin based John O’Donnell has written four poetry collections, the latest of which is Sunlight: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2018 ), and won numerous prizes for his work.
Aoife Reilly, who lives in Kinvara, has seen her poetry been widely published in print and online journals in Ireland and overseas.
Admission to the event is free. To register for it, go to https://www.crowdcast.io/e/doire-press-10th/register.
