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Listowel Literary Festival

Programme of Events

Workshops

John McKenna Workshop

Essay Writing in the 21st Century with John McKenna

Memory, gender, politics, religion, sexuality, sensuality, life, death, the hereafter, the here and now, childhood, growing older, lost love, found love, landscape – all of these offer possibilities in the essay form. And all of these will be part of the three-day workshop series with John.

Thursday, Friday & Saturday

9.30 am to 12.30 pm

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Marianne Power Workshop

Memories and Memoir with Marianne Power

In this three-day workshop, Marianne Power will help you to explore your memories and play with different ways to write them in a vivid and engaging way.

Thursday, Friday & Saturday

9.30 am to 12.30 pm

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Andrew Meehan Workshop

Fiction in The Shape of Love with Andrew Meehan

This three-day workshop will look at the difficult decisions you make at the start of a project. The visible and the invisible writing. And the questions you ask at the beginning of any love story.

Thursday, Friday & Saturday

9.30 am to 12.30 pm

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Aingela Flannery Workshop

Short Story Creative Kickstart with Aingeala Flannery

Do you have a short story in your head that you’re struggling to put into words? If so, the three-day Creative Kickstart Workshop with award-winning novelist and short story writer Aingeala Flannery is for you. 

Thursday, Friday & Saturday

9.30 am to 12.30 pm

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What people are saying about us

  • Popped in here to escape the rain and get a cup of tea and cake. Very reasonable prices and great service. Then noticed the little hare jumping around on the wall when I used the toilets! Looked very intriguing and prompted us all to buy tickets to the museum. Wow! So worth it as the exhibits and the way it was presented was lovely, really unusual. So informative and so different to other museums. Really good value for money and a real highlight to the town.

    Great Service (Trip Advisor Review)

    – March, 2023

  • Most impressive is how ingrained in both The Creative & local communities The Seanchaí is, from the workshops, coffee mornings & plain old drop ins, To Book launches, poetry recitals, projects & engagements with the local schools. The Seanchaí is a much loved and universally treasured cultural icon. By the inhabitants of Listowel, most of Co. Kerry and West Limerick.

    Mark Ollerhead (Google Review)

    – March, 2023

  • We had requested the 30-minute tour, but happily lingered for an hour longer than we had planned. As we exited, we looked at each other and laughed out loud at our good fortune. We could have so easily missed this experience that left us feeling moved, intrigued and a bit more educated about the Kerry writers. In our delight, we failed to tip our guide but I will be going to your donations page to make a modest pledge in gratitude for our host whose name we did not record to memory.

    Jane Braswell (Google Review)

    – March, 2023

  • Our visit to the Kerry Writers Museum was a very memorable experience from beginning to end. Cara, who was working at the centre that day, was very welcoming and most helpful. The exhibition of the Kerry writers was imaginative and most engaging. The seanchai relating the background stories each writer was magic! A wonderful experience all round.

    Cara (Google Review)

    – May, 2021

  • This museum has been developed with great care and meticulous attention to detail. The audio elements are matched perfectly to the installations which are beautifully presented. The option to activate the audio guides in each room without resorting to the use of handheld devices worked very well. This is a must see/hear for anyone with an interest in Irish writing. There is also a little coffee shop and gifts on sale.

    Beautifully Curated (Trip Advisor Review)

    – July, 2019

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