Chapters and Verse Themed Reading

dublin | arts and media | event notice Sunday January 24, 2010 22:55 by Seven Towers Agency - Seven Towers Agency info at seventowers dot ie

Love and Chocolate -– in anticipation of Valentine’s Day. Chapters Bookstore Parnell St Dublin 1

Readers are: Steve Conway, Pauline Fayne, Eileen Keane, Ross Hattaway, Eamonn Lynskey, Oran Ryan, Bob Shakeshaft, Barbara Smith.

Steve Conway is an Irish broadcaster and writer, formerly of the offshore pirate station Radio Caroline and most recently a presenter on the Dublin rock station Phantom105.2. He started his radio career on a small London rockmusic pirate, South East Sound before moving to Radio Caroline in 1987, where he rose to the positions of Head of News and Programme Controller. In 1991 he was one of the final crew members rescued from the Caroline ship Ross Revenge when it ran aground on the Goodwin Sands. His memoir about his time on Radio Caroline, Shiprocked, Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline was published by Liberties Press in March 2009, to both popular and critical acclaim. He is currently working on his second book which
combines a memoir from a different aspect of his life with an invitation for others to make their own memories.

Éamonn Lynskey has had poems published in many magazines. He was nominated for the Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Poetry in 2006 and one of his poems featured on the 2009 OXFAM calendar. His first collection Dispatches and Recollections was published in 1998 and 1.His second collection And Suddenly the Sun Again will be published in 2010. Éamonn, who holds a Diploma in Italian Language and Culture has also translated the works of modern Italian poets into English. He is also a long time contributor to the open mic scene in Dublin.

Pauline Fayne was born in 1954 and lives in Tallaght, Co. Dublin. Her first collection Journey was published in 1979 by Sheveck Press. Her second collection Killer of Fishes was published by Stonebridge Publications in 2001. A third collection I’m Fine, Really was published by Stonebridge Publications in October 2005. Her fourth collection Mowing in the Dark will be published by Stonebridge in 2010. Pauline’s work has been included in several anthologies, including: The White
Page (edited by Joan Mc Breen and published by Salmon Press); Four Urban Voices (edited by Dermot Bolger and published by Raven Arts Press); Rainbows and Stone (edited by Michael Bouchier and published by Real Ireland). Her work has also been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4.

Eileen Keane’s first short story won the Cecil Day Lewis fiction prize in 2004 and in 2007 her short story Tryst was one of 14 chosen through a competition on Seoige and O’Shea on RTE or an anthology called Do the Write Thing (Poolbeg Press). In 2008 she won first prize in the humorous essay competition at Listowel. In 2008, her story
The Cave was published in Census, the First Seven Towers Anthology. She is a visual artist, amember of K.A. (Kildare Artists), Clane Writer’s Group and a founder member of the Leinster Printmaking Studio at Clane, Co. Kildare and has just completed her first novel.

Oran Ryan is a novelist, poet and playwright from Dublin. He has had poems, short stories and literary critical articles published in various magazines. His first two novels, The Death of Finn and Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger were published by Seven Towers in 2006.His play Don Quixote has Been Promoted featured in 2009
Ranelagh Arts Festival. Oran won a 2008 Arts Council Bursary Award for his current work in progress New Order from Zero.

Robert Shakeshaft was born in 1949. In 2004 he attended a creative writing ocurse run by Skerries poet, Enda Coyle Green. At this event he wrote his first poem, called ‘February Field’. He has since written a number of poems, has performed at open mics in Inchicore, at eh Inchicore Village Festival, and has had work published in the journal Riposte.

Barbara Smith is a native of Armagh and currently lives in Dundalk, County Louth where she teaches creative writing. Barbara has also been involved in amateur dramatics, various writing groups and worked with the Irish Mental Health Association in the organisation of a short story competition. Barbara has published poetry in Riposte, VirtualWriter and Electric Acorn in Ireland, as well as in nthposition.com, Sentinel Poetry (online) and The Coffee House (UK), GarmLu (Canada), Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and Portrait (US) and TMR (India).
Her essays have appeared in west47 online and VirtualWriter and her publications include Poetic Stage (1998) and Gnosis (1996). Her collection Kairos was published by Doghouse in 2007.