Writer Alannah Hopkin for Galway

national | arts and media | event notice Monday August 25, 2008 14:30 by Fred Johnston - Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scr ibhneoiri Chaitlin Maud westernwriters at eircom dot net 27 Nuns Island, Galway 087.2178138

Western Writers' Centre sets up first major autumn reading

Novelist and journalist Alannah Hopkin for Galway

Novelist and journalist Alannah Hopkin will read from here work for the
Wwestern Writers' Centre, Galway, in The Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square,
Galway, on Friday, September 12th, at 8pm. Admission is €7 and €5. Details
from the Western Writers' Centre at westernwriters@eircom.net and
087.2178138. Born in Singapore, and educated in London, Alannah Hopkin has
lived in Kinsale since 1982. She has published two novels, A Joke Goes A
Long Way in the Country Hamish Hamilton London and Atheneum New York 1983,
and The Out-Haul Hamish Hamilton 1986, and a non-fiction book, The Living
Legend of St. Patrick Grafton Books London and St. Martin's Press New York
1991. Her stories have appeared various publications including the Cork
Review and the London Magazine. She was a runner up the Stand Short Story
Competition, 1997. She works as a journalist writing mainly about art,
literature and travel. She is a member of the International Association of
Art Critics (AICA). The reading is sponsored by Easons, Galway.